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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,406 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 71

Items From Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a bicycle from the rear of a Wagga hotel was sentenced to a month's gaol by Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., at Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Took "Sniff of Snow," Man Tells Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

A MAN who was sentenced to 12 months' gaol at Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday admitted taking drugs…

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Heavy Bail for Man Remanded at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

Heavy ball was set for a man who appeared at the Wagga Court yesterday on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing…

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Court of Petty Sessions Saturday, January 8 (Before Messrs. C. Fischer and .S. S. Jones, J'S.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

James Terris (19), Wollongong, and Arthur- Paton (25), Enfield. were charged with attempting to travel in a railway carriage between…

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Escaped Gaol Prisoner Recaptured This Morning

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1949 · page 1

NAMBUCCA HEADS, Wednesday — A prisoner who escaped from Macksville Gaol last night was recaptured in a…

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Big Increase in Cases at Cootamundra Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1949 · page 2

Figures made, available, today by the Clerk of Petty Sessions (Mr. C. Hubbard) reveal a substantial increase in the number of cases handled at the Cootomundra Court during 1948…

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Cowra Fruiterer Charged in Shooting Case

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 4

George Aggalakais, Cowra fruiterer, who has a shop in Kendall street, opposite the Convent School, has been charged by the…

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Police Essay Prizewinners

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Campers, picknickers and hikers were blamed by prize-winners in the police essay competitio on…

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Hillston Inquest Man on Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 1

HILLSTON. Thursday— Blood-stained clcthing and a stout paling were brought into Hillston court House this…

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Police Expected at Meeting in Trades Hall

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Police might be asked to attend tomorrow night's meeting of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council, the Trades Hall Council secretary (Mr. V. Stout) said today…

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Reported Robbery Man Charged with Causing Public Mischief

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 2

In the early hours of yesterday (Thursday) a man named W. G. Marshall was camped on the roadside with a van about 20 miles from…

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Alleged Hold-up on Sturt Highway Man Charged With Public Mischief

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

Wagga detectives were called to Narandera yesterday to investigate a reported armed robbery on the Sturt Highway,…

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Will Upset by Chancery Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.): Two sons and one daughter left out of the will of Robert Addy Hopkins, a Huddersfield…

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Armed Wagga Police Seek Man; Alleged Shooting Attempt

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 2

After allegedly trying to shoot a woman with a 12-gauge shotgun last night, a man "went bush" in a horsedrawn cart. ALL available police from…

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Story of Alleged Hold-up on Sturt Highway; Police Charge Man

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 1

Wagga detectives were called to Narrandera yesterday to investigate a reported armed robbery on the Sturt Highway, near Galore, early yesterday morning. A FURNITURE van driver…

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Man Discharged at Leeton Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 2

LEETON, Friday: After a sixhour hearing, Mr. Debenham, S.M., at the Leeton Court today, discharged Ronald James…

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Man Remanded Conditionally at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 2

A MAN remanded at Wagga Court yesterday was given ball on condition that he keep at least a mile from the home…

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Charged After Theft Story at Narandera

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 2

A truck driver who told Narandera Policy that he was held up and robbed at gunpoint on Thursday morning, was later…

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Hillston Man Charged with Murder of Sister-in-law Alleged to have Battered Woman to Death With Picket

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 7

The Hillston Coroner (Mr P. V. Holdsworth) on Thursday committed for trial Le[?]lie Frederick Parr, a 28-year-old Hillston shearer on a charge of murdering his sister-in-law. Parr allegedly battered the woman, Ellen Smith, aged 44,…

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Convicted on Charge of Assault

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 3

JOHN Thomas Dockery was convicted yesterday at the Leeton Court, on a charge of assaulting William James Frazer, licensee of…

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