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Courts & crime, 1948

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District Court Appeals Adjourned Till 1949

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 3

The appeals of Reginald Lindsay Black and William John Fulton, against their conviction under the National Security…

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Court Told No Regular Check on Munitions

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: Huts at Mangalore Army Depot, where millions of ammunition were stored, were not checked…

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Police Probe Blaze at Hillston Hotel £35,000 Loss

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

Mystery surrounds the origin of the £35,000 blaze which gutted the Royal Mail Hotel at Hillston early yesterday morning. Awakened at 3 a.m. by an explosion in the roof, twenty…

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"S.m. Herald" Canberra Offices Searched by Security Police

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Security police investigating the "secret documents" "case yesterday searched an office occupied…

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"Secret Documents" Case Security Police Search Morning Herald Offices in Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday: Security police investigating the "secret documents" case today searched an office occupied by the "Sydney Morning Herald" in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, Parliament…

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Magistrate Criticised in Falstein Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mr. Miller, K.C. claimed in the State Full court today that in convicting Sydney Max Falstein…

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Lockhart Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 2

LOCKHART, Tuesday: Before Mr. J. S. Scobie, licensing magistrate, today the Lockhart Services Club was granted a…

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Wagga Police Probe Robbery Possibility

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 2

Wagga police are investigating the possibility of a house in Railway Street having been broken into and robbed…

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Alleged Words by Man on Trial on Murder Count

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Senior Detective Charles Petty, giving evidence during the second day of the Hurley trial in the…

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Wagga Builders Awarded £370 in Supreme Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 2

A WAGGA building firm was awarded £370 in the Wagga Supreme Court yesterday for a breach of contract by…

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Toys Used in Wagga Supreme Court to Demonstrate Crash

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 2

A toy truck and car were used at the Wagga Supreme Court yesterday to demonstrate the details of an accident. The accident occurred on The Rock-Tootool Road…

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Typist Charged in Govt. Probe

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday: A girl typist employed by the Department of Post-war Reconstruction was charged…

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Released from Gaol on Sunday; Arrested

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 3

TEMORA, Wed.: Charles O'Brien, 35, laborer, of Tasmania, who was released from Goulburn gaol on Sunday night…

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Death Sentence for Melbourne Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday Eric Stanley Jacobi, 44, tractor-driver, of Gordon Street, Fitzroy. was sentenced to death today…

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Company Charged; Statewide Coal Strike Threat Postponed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Joint Coal Board today issued a summons against Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. for allegedly failing to comply with an order affecting the South Coast coal strike…

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Gundagai Woman to Pay £370 Supreme Court Verdict Favors Wagga Contractors

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 6

“This is the house that Jack built”. The age old nursery recitation may have run through the minds of the jury at this week's sittings of the Wagga Supreme Court, When a Wagga building contractor sued a well known Gundagai woman for £393, which they…

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Ardlethan Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 2

ARDLETHAN, Thursday: At the Ardlethan Police Court Before Mr. Debenham S.M., John Willoughby Richards butcher,…

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Man Arrested After Wagga Police Chase

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 2

Two Wagga police constables yesterday chased and arrested a man who is alleged to have made a smash-and-grab raid on a…

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French Strikers Beat Off Police Bitter Clashes

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Friday.—Bitter clashes, in which over 100 were injured, one fatally, raged between strikers and police and troops in…

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Wagga Police Chase After 'Smash-Grab' Raid

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

Two Wagga police constables yesterday chased and arrested a man who is alleged to have made a smash-and-grab raid on a…

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