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Courts & crime, 1948

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

Mother Charged With Offence Against Son

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: A case at the Liverpool Children's Court today, in which a mother was charged with indecently…

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Driver Raced Past Police

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 2

About noon October 25th of this year, Kevin G. Booby, a labourer, was driving a ton truck into town on the…

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Last-Minute Petition to Supreme Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.): A few minutes before word was received from Tokyo of the war lords' executions, a…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday. December 20 (Before Mr. E. Debenham, S.M.) Betting Cases

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

John Wells (53) was charged with using the Narandera Sports Club, East Street, for the purpose of betting on 27th November…

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Man Charged With Murder of Hillston Woman

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 December 1948 · page 2

A bloodstained paling with which a man allegedly battered hit sister-in-law to death at Hillston will be taken to Sydney by a detective today. Leslie Frederick Parr, 28, shearer, of Hillston,…

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Two Charged With Illegal Use of Cycle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 December 1948 · page 2

A motor cycle reported stolen at Wagga yesterday afternoon was recovered by the police within an hour. Two men have…

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Patient Charged With Firing Shots

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Bernard Lance Ward, 27, of East Sydney, said to be a hospital patient on leave, fired two shots from a…

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Charged With Murder of Sydney Criminal

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1948 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday: Leonard Hermann Levy, 31, machine minder, of no fixed address, was today charged with the murder…

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Arrested Cardinal Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1948 · page 1

BUDAPEST Wednesday (A.A.P.): The Hungarian Ministry of the Interior claimed today that Cardinal Mindszenty…

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Special Police Warning

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1948 · page 2

BECAUSE a number of confidence men and undesirables are expected in Wagga over the holiday week-end Wagga police…

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Magistrate Urges Probe Into Control of Building Materials

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: An "immediate and drastic" inquiry into the control of the Department of Building Materials was urged today by Mr. A. F. Bryant, S.M., in the Kogarah Court…

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