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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,406 stories in Riverina's papers · page 18 of 71

Sharkey Trial Crowds Outside Court

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—Miners on the northern coalfields today ignored the Communists appeal for a complete stoppage as a…

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Sharkey's Case Is Before Court. Communist Orders to Unions Mis-fire

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Miners on the northern coalfields to-day ignored toe Communists' appeal for a complete stoppage as a…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

A MAN who pleaded guilty at Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to a charge of carrying a pillion passenger…

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Police Raid Uranquinty Hotel; 9 Fined

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

Police alleged at the Wagga Court yesterday that the licensee of the Uranqulnty Hotel had told them that he could not…

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Balmain Police Boys' Club to Visit Tumut at Easter

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

A team from the Balmain Police Boys' Club will visit Tumut over Easter. They will arrive by train on Good Friday and will commence…

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Allegations Against Wagga Trots Bookmaker; Remanded in Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

A bookmaker who police allege fled the course at Wagga trots last Saturday without paying winning bets was remanded on his own hail of £100 with one surety of £100 or two of £50 at Wagga Court…

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Boos, Cheers For Sharkey Outside Court Demonstrations by Rival Crowds

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Communist Party secretary, L. L. Sharkey, aged 50, pleaded not guilty and chose to be tried by a jury when he appeared in the Special Federal Court today to answer two charges…

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Ward Probe Minister in Box First Heard of Farrell When Pointed Out in Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 1

The Minister for External Territories (Mr. Ward) told the Royal Commission into the New Guinea timber deal yesterday…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Yesterday) Before Messrs. G. B. Black and B. R. Moody, Js P.

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

Raymond Wilson (29) and Raymond Lawrence Rolfe (26), both of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to being found in Wallendoon…

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Three Charged; Alleged Train Robberies

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 1

Detective-Sgt. H. J. Cloke Detective Holmes, Sergeant G. Lithgow, of Wagga, and Senior Railway Detective Hughes…

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9 Years' Gaol for Hillston Shearer

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Leslie Frederick Parr, 28, shearer, of Hillston, was sentenced to nine years' gaol by Mr. Justice Clancy at the Central Criminal Court today for the manslaughter of his sister-in-law…

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Four Railwaymen Arrested in Junee Stealing, Goods in Custody Charges Suits, Trousers, Tools, Radios, etc., Mentioned

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 1

Four Junee railwaymen were arrested yesterday, three of them' being charged with having goods, in their possesion which could be…

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Publican's Booth and Junee Park Council to Seek Advice From Local Police

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 3

Before deciding whether a publican's booth will be permitted on the park during Maher Cup matches the Junee Municipal…

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Four Railwaymen Arrested in Junee Alleged Stealing of Goods Suits, Trousers, Tools, Radios, etc

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 1

Four Junee railwaymen were arrested, three of them being charged with having goods in their possession which could be…

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Tumut Man Who Served Gaol Sentence for Failure to Destroy Rabbits Attracts Attention

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 1

Milton Hayden, of Tumut, who was recently discharged from the Tumut lock-up after serving a sentence of 14 days rather than…

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Coolamon Police Court Motor Traffic Cases

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 5

At the Coolamon Police Court, on Tuesday of last week, before Mr. Quiggin, S.M., Ronald J. Smith, of Albert Park,…

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District Residents Heavily Fined for Wheat Stealing

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

Found guilty on each of two charges in connection with wheat stealing at Combaning and Ardlethan, John Wheeler Bourke, 33,…

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Farr Guilty of Manslaughter Sentenced to Nine Years' Imprisonment

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

A Central Criminal Court jury on Monday found Leslie Frederick Parr, 26 year old Hillston shearer, guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty of…

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Court in Session

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 6

During the shopping hours in Batlow last Saturday morning and again at the sports during the afternoon the Batlow "Court" was in…

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Tumut Man Who Took Gaol For Failure to Destroy Rabbits Attracts

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

Milton Hayden, of Tumut, who was recently discharged from the Tumut lock-up after serving a sentence of 14 day rather than…

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