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Courts & crime, 1949

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Remanded at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

A man fined at the Wagga Court yesterday on one charge of stealing was remanded on a goods-in-custody charge on £20…

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Bashed Husband to Death, Police Allege

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Accused of bashing her husband to death with a hammer, at Enfield, a crippled woman was remanded…

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Special Court Held at Hospital

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 4

Before Mr. M. Robson, J.P., at a special court held at the McCaughey Memorial Hospital, Urana, on Monday last, Percy Napier (37 years), a…

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Police Say Men Left Woman Dying on Road

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: After a woman had been fatally injured by a car, the car was stopped and two men returned to the…

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W. Aust. Police Raid Homes of Suspected Reds

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The homes of suspected members of the Communist Party were raided br State police in…

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Remanded at Wagga Court oh 28 Charges

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

Two charges of stealing, against a 28-year-old North Wagga laborer, Francis Roy Gerhard, were part-heard at…

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Court of Petty Sessions Before Mr. W. Finlay, SM. (Yesterday) Failure to Give Right of Way

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

J. W. Norriss appeared before the court on a charge of having foiled to give right of way. Constable Rains stated that…

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Remanded on Theft Charges

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 2

BOWRAL, Tuesday: Charged with stealing a radio and other goods valued at £40. a 37-year-old laborer, Henry Vincent…

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9 Months Gaol for False Pretences; Man Pleads Guilty at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 2

A man admitted in the Wagga Court yesterday that he had committed an offence on his first day off from work after being released from gaol. THE Stipendiary Magistrate…

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3 Years' Gaol for Woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A woman collapsed in the Criminal Court today, when Mr. Justice Martin sentenced her to three…

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Maroubra Murder Big Rewards Offered

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — A reward of £1000 is being offered by the State Government for the solution of the Maroubra…

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Police Criticise Facilities

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Complaints that police officers had to wash on the front lawn, that police offices and buildings were…

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£1000 Reward for Solution of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A reward of £ 1000 is being offered by the State Government for the solution of the Maroubra murder…

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Summons Issued for Witness at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 2

At Wagga Court House yesterday a summons was issued for a man to attend a Children's Court as a…

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Asked to Swallow Preposterous Story Defence Counsel's Suggestion in Court

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 5

"It is too preposterious to ask you to swallow a story that this man, not a railwayman, was able to go to the brilliantly illuminated…

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Police Suspect Murder Body Found in Creek

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — Police, believe that Robert George Ringland, 55, whose body was recovered from a creek at…

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Three Months Gaol for Tarcutta Man Charges of False Pretences and Stealing

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 3

William P. Tuttle, 36, labourer, of Tarcutta, was sentenced to three months gaol at the Wagga Court this week on charges of false pretences…

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Wagga Man Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 2

A Wagga butcher, John Gayford Wigg, 35, was remanded at Brewarrina Court to appear at Wagga Court on Monday on a…

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Police Assn. Officers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The retiring president (Mr. C. T. Boston) was re-elected at the Police Association conference today…

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Will Appeal Against Sentence Man Charged With Begging Alms

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 7

Well known in Gundagai, Brian Nicholson, of Cootamundra, was this week sentenced to a month’s gaol for begging alms at the Wagga…

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