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Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 61 of 65

Court of Petty Sessions Before Mr. C. Hubbard. J.P. (FRIDAY) Begging Aims

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 November 1948 · page 2

Raymond Bell (38) was charged with having placed himself in Wallendoon street to beg aims…

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£250,000 Theft From Railways in Past Year

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday During the past year, property valued at £250.000 had been stolen from railways in New South Wales…

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Doubts Articles Are Clues to Triple Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY. Tuesday: C.I.B. detectives tonight doubted that articles discovered in a cave near Yanderra were connected with…

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Young Girl on Murder Charge; Posed As Boy

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 1

MANILLA, Tuesday: A detective said in the Manilla Coroner's Court today that a 17-year-old girl, masquerading as a boy, had admitted shooting an old man whose mistress she had been when she was…

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Police Assn. Not to Join Labor Council

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: By 1655 to 1022, members of the N.S.W. Police Force Association have decided not to, affiliate with the…

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Counsel Says Verdict, "Murder or Nothing" Le Gallien Case Closing

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mr. J. J. Kinkead told a Central Criminal Court jury that the case against his client, Charles Ivan Le Gallien, must be decided as murder not manslaughter…

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Girl for Trial on Murder Charge; Old Man's Death

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1948 · page 1

MANILLA, Wednesday: Gloria Dawn Pacer, 17, was today committed for trial on a charge of having murdered William Roger…

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Robbery and Assault In Broad Daylight

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 5

WHILE on his way to his home in Cypress Street, Leeton, on Saturday. Mr. Bill Glanville, who is gardener to Mr. H…

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E.C.A.F.E. CONFERENCE Car Drivers Booked by Police

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday — Traffic police chased speeding cars being used by delegates to the E.C.A.F.E. conference this…

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Security Police Have List of All Communists

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA. Friday: The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) reiterated in the House of Representatives today his refusal to…

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Offered Court Half-Share in Lottery Ticket

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: "Gambling is the ruination of the country. If it were not for races it would be a different world altogether,"…

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Charged With Stabbing Woman

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A man was wrested and charged with inflicting grevious bodily harm on a woman last night after…

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Daring Theft of Jewellery in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. A youth who asked to be shown a "more expensive watch" in a jewellery shop this afternoon, suddenly…

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Alleged Theft of Bottle of Wins

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 2

Richard [?] aged 19, was charged at the Leeton Police Court yesterday morning, with st[?]ing a bottle of wine, valuee at 5/-…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

A Mangoplah storekeeper was fined £4 at the Wagga Court yesterday on a charge of exposing packets of Icing sugar for…

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2 on Trial for Murder of Gangster

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Harold Sydney Brett, 27. laborer, and Percy Charles Neville. 32. sugar worker, were charged for the…

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Court of Petty Sessions FRIDAY, 3rd DECEMBER

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 2

James Ryder, of Simpson Street, East Melbourne, was charged with being found drunk in Melbourne Street, Narandera, on 2nd December…

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"S.M. Herald" Loses Appeal to Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: An appeal by the "Sydney Morning Herald against a decision of a former chief magistrate (Mr E. A…

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High Court Divided on "Red Appeal Book" Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: In a reserved judgment delivered today the High Court dismissed an appeal by the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst (Dr. A. L. Wylde) against the banning of services conducted…

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U. S. Supreme Court Will Hear Appeals of War Criminals

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday— By a majority of five to four, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday granted a hearing to two…

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