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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,406 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 71

Hit With Iron Bar Amazing Disclosures Un Unusual Court Case

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 4

REMANDED FOR SENTANCE AMAZING disclosures of a man's intentions while armed with an iron bar to waylay,…

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Leeton Man Charged with Inciting Crime

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 2

LEETON, Friday: In the Leeton Court today a young man, charged with inciting to the commission of crime, was…

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Wild Scramble to See Haigh Leave Court in Acid Bath Murder Case

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Children were knocked down and yelping dogs were trodden on in a wild scramble by over 500 people to see the departure of John George Haigh after his committal for trial yesterday in the "acid bath" murder case…

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Murder Charge Paddington Stabbing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—John Graham Buxton was remanded on £500 bail at the Central Court today on a charge of…

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Fatal Stabbing at Paddington; Man Charged

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Following the fatal stabbing at Paddington last night, of 22-year-old Edward Colin Morris, of Chapman Street, Surry Hills, a man walked into the Darlinghurst Police Station this…

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Sidney Stanley Disappears Big Police Search

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Monday—Police last night were seeking the Lynskey Graft Tribunal witness, Sidney Stanley, after he failed…

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Rabbits Are Attacking Goulburn Court House Gardens

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 7

The Goulburn court house gardener, Mr Roy Martin, is about to beign a full scale blitz on rabbits which, he says, are destroying his…

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Two Remanded at Wagga on Theft Charges

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 2

Ball of £200. with one surety of £200 or two of £100. was allowed a man who appeared at Wagga court yesterday on 31…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 2

JAMES O. DICKENS, of 5 Hudson Grove, West Brunswick (Vic), was charged with speeding with a heavy vehicle…

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Assault & Inciting To Commission Of Crime Defendant Fined and Bound Over

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 4

KEITH Douglas Wilson, aged 26, who was remanded for sentence at the Leeton Police Court on Tuesday last to…

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Court of Petty Sessions Before Mr. Finlay, S.M. Offensive Behavior

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 2

Arthur Ambrose Grant (24) and Clarence Godfrey pleaded guilty to behaving in an offensive manner in the yard of the…

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Police Chief at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 2

The N.S.W. Police Commissioner (Mr. J. F. Scott) visited Wagga yesterday during a routine inspection of Riverina…

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Guilty of Contempt Union Secretary Before Full Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday—The Full Arbitration court to-day found Leslie John McPhillips, assistant Federal secretory…

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Guilty of Contempt of Court Conviction for Union Secretary in Melbourne

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The Full Arbitration Court to-day found Leslie John McPhillips, assistant Federal Secretary of the…

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No Cases Heard in Junee Court To-day Four Railwayman Further Remanded to Later Date

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 6 April 1949 · page 5

The Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. A. V. Quiggan, did not come to Junee to-day for the regular sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions…

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Mailman-sentenced

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 2

A man who pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing postal articles was sentenced to six months gaol by Judge Berne at…

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Alleged Assault on American Ex-serviceman

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 1

An American ex-serviceman, David Lorenzo Stevens, aged 27 years, received a fractured upper jaw. lacerations to the…

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Judge Praises Wagga Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 3

At the conclusion of the criminal cases at Wagga Quarter Sessions yesterday, Judge F. W. Berne referred favorably to…

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Seaman in Leeton Court Remanded

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 4

LEETON, Wednesday: A 22-year-old seaman charged with deserting the ship, Trevince, at Sydney tn the latter part of…

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Four Men Remanded at Junee Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 1

Four men were remanded until May 4 at Junee Court yesterday by Mr. A. Fordyce, C.P.S., on charges of having…

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