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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,406 stories in Riverina's papers · page 21 of 71

Unionist Attacks Arbt. Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Arbitration Court was attacked today, by the Victorian secretary of the seamen's Union (Mr. W…

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Maroubra Murder? Elderly Woman Found Stabbed

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—Miss Mary Fahy (62), was found to-day lying on the floor of her blood-spattered bedroom in…

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Wild Happenings on the Whitton Common "A Strange Story" Says Magistrate Debenham

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 6

LIKE a page from some wild west story was the evidence given at the Leeton police court when, before Mr. Debenham, S.M., Alexander Godfrey Mallyon proceeded against Oliver Hemphill on a charge of apprehended violence and…

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Allegation of Improper Police Conduct Denied

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: An ironworkers' Union delegation was told today by Police Superintendent E. Clifford that he…

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Gaoled for Yanco Assault on Police

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1949 · page 4

LEETON, Friday: A man charged with assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty at Yanco on Saturday was…

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Woman's Death Police Hunt Intensified for Killer

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The search for the murderer of a wealthy Maroubra spinster, Miss Mary Fahy, 62, was intensified today, when detectives uncovered a hew clue…

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Charged With Stealing £450 Worth of Goods

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Detectives last night arrested a man and charged him with stealing £450 worth of goods from a men's…

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Man Charged with Murder of Father

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A 20-stone, 6 foot 6 inch fireman was charged at Redfern police station this morning with the…

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Youth Charged with Assaulting Woman Aged 80

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A 16-year-old youth was arrested at Riverston yesterday and charged with assaulting an…

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Hundreds Visit Scene of Sydney Murder

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday: Morbid curiosity brought hundreds of holiday-makers to Maroubra, where squads of detectives are…

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Police Arrest Man Hidden in Empty House

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Armed police this morning arrested a man found hidden under a bed in a vacant house in Drumalbyn…

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Gaol Escapees Remanded

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

BATHURST, Monday: Daniel Murphy, 24, and Raymond Abbott, 30, who escaped from Bathurst gaol on Saturday night,…

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Prisoner Escapes From Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: The escape last night from Pentridge Gaol of 49-year-old criminal George Thomas Howard, was…

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New Clue in Maroubra Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Investigations into the "almost perfect" murder of wealthy Maroubra spinster, Miss Mary Fahy, 62,…

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£1000 Bail Allowed on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Joseph George Eaton, 33, fireman, was allowed £1000 ball and remanded to Central Court on April 26…

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Maroubra Murder Detectives Confident of Arrest

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Following the discovery of what is believed to be a vital clue, more [?]C.I.B. detectives have been…

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Destroying the Empire Suppressing the Word "British" Socialists Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 3

Messrs H. B. Turner, M.L.A., for Gordon, and E D. Darby M.L.A. for Manly, in the Assembly vigorously charged Empire…

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Police Chief Murdered in Main Street

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

SHIELDS (Kentucky), Monday: Harian County police chief Ambroe Metclafe, was murdered in the main street of Shields,…

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Youth Charged With Assault on Young Girl

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday: An 18-year-old youth, who allegedly assaulted with intent to rape, a fourteen-years-old girl was…

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Gaol Breaker Recaptured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: An [?]habital criminal who escaped from Pentridge Gaol on Sunday night was recaptured this…

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