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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,406 stories in Riverina's papers · page 11 of 71

She Failed to Charm The Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Twenty - year - old night club dancer, Zorita—in private life Mrs…

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Owner Tells Court: "Hundreds of Horses Are Stung"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: There had been hundreds of cases where trainers had given "a sting" to their horses, declared racehorse owner, Joseph Jeffrey, giving evidence in the Supreme Court today…

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Pillion Riders on Motor Cycles. Bring Fines to Two Young Junee Men in Court

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 7

Who said that about mother-in-laws and their uses? Harold A. South, who was due to appear in the Court of Petty…

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Farrell Tells Court How £50,000 Paid Out Cheques Produced at N.G. Royal Commission

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: "From cheques of £50,000 paid by the Queensland timber firm of Hancock and Gore to Edward Farrell for the rights to cut and export timber from New Guinea, £30,000 was paid…

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Ten Years for Assault on Youth

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. Sentencing a 60-year-old man to 10 years' imprisonment on each of five charges of indecent assault…

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Stealing From Store At Junee and Old Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 3

More than £30 in cash was stolen from a Junee store on Monday night. The store of H. J. Treweek,…

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Man Charged at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 2

A man appeared at Wagga Court yesterday on charges of stealing a bicycle valued at £19, and on a charge of receiving…

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Coolamon Police Court Driving Under the Influence Defendant Bound Over

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 2

At the Coolamon Police Court on Wednesday last before Mr. C. F. Blackmore, Stipendiary Magistrate, Keith Gumbleton (24) of Ganmain,…

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High Court Rejects Garden's Application

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday — The High Court today rejected an application by counsel for J. S. ("Jock") Garden for an…

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Garden's Application to High Court First Dismissed; Second Stood Over

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Friday: The High Court to-day rejected the application by counsel for 3. S. ("Jock") Garden for an…

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Court of Petty Sessions SATURDAY, 19th FEBRUARY (Before Mr. C K. Ward, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 2

Harry McGuire (43) was charged with being found drunk in Bolton Street. As he did not appear, his recognisance was forfeited…

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Singer Awaits Court judgment

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 1

PARIS, Friday (A.A.P.): A French court has reserved judgment on a claim by Mademoiselle…

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High Court Refuses to Stop N.g. Inquiry

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: An injunction to restrain Mr. Justice Ligertwood from proceeding with the Royal Commission on timber leases was refused by Justice Sir Owen Dixon in the Hitch Court today…

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Football Star on Bond at West Wyalong Police Evidence Preferred to Doctors in "Influence" Case

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 2

WEST WYALONG: Friday "Police hare much more experience than doctors in regard to men under the influence of drink," Mr. Finlay, S.M., said at the West Wyalong Petty Sessions today…

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Woman Charged With Thefts From Letter Boxes

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A woman resident of Hargrave Park housing settlement was arrested yesterday and charged with…

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Farrell Too Ill to Attend Court. Day's Hearing of Timber Quizz Falls Through

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Edward Farrell an important witness in the New Guinea Timber Royal Commission, was too ill to attend…

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Youth Charged With Murder of Father

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: A woman told the coroner today that her husband had been a "mental and physical wreck since 1932, and was cruel and wicked, and hated his family."…

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Six Months' Gaol For Assaulting Police Officer Kicked and Gouged

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 2

WHEN Kenneth Frederick Gray was charged at the Leeton police court with assaulting Constable Jack Peters while…

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Boxer Acquitted of Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday: A former middleweight boxing champion of Australia was acquitted to-day of charges of assault…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 3

A MAN charged with stealing £9/17/7 in money was remanded to March 7 on £40 ball at the Wagga Court yesterday…

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