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Courts & crime, 1950

1,296 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 65

Stealing From The Person Old Offender Gets Three Months at Urana

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 8

Before Mr. A. V. Quiggin at Urana, Willoughby Fredrick English appeared, on remand charged with the larceny of a wallet, rat…

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Local Items New Police Inspector

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 2

Inspector W. F. Mills, late of Deniliquin, has now taken up duties as officer-in-charge of the Wagga Police Sub-District…

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Four Years' Gaol on Shooting Charge Father-in-law Was Target

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—A laborer who blamed his father-in-law for brooking up his marriage was today sentenced to four years' imprisonment for shooting at his father-in-low with intent to do…

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Man, Shot, Refuses to Aid Police

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A man who was shot in, three places while drinking in a hotel bar at Newtown late today refused to…

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Alleged indecent language and resisting arrest Dramatic court evidence

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 6

The hearing of charges of using indecent language and resisting arrest against Allan B. Cravino, which were part heard at a previous sittings of the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions, was resumed on Friday last when Sgt. Wiles…

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Leeton Man Fined £5 For Assault

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 2

LEETON, Tues.: Francis Patrick Henness, 22, of 5 Carabra Avenue, Leeton pleaded not guilty in Leeton Court today…

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Shooting Charge at Young Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 2

Walter Berrell (49), a returned soldier, was charged as Young court with having shot at Lionel Duffy, at Maimuru…

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Bottled Beer for Cootamundra Mentioned in High Court Case

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 1

In the High Court in Melbourne a Melbourne cartage contractor and his employee challenged the right of the…

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Variety of Cases Decided at Junee Court of Petty Sessions Hearing This Morning

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 8

COMMONWEALTH REVENUE WAS GIVEN A £23 BOOST IN THE JUNEE COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS THIS MORNING WHEN FOURTEEN LOCAL RESIDENTS WERE PROCEEDED AGAINST FOR FAILURE TO POSSESS A…

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Sentenced at Tumut for Using Car Illegally

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Independent, Cootamundra Herald

TUMUT, Wednesday: Boss Weeks, duco-sprayer, of Goulburn, appeared at the Tumut Court today on three charges…

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Magistrate Went Rabbit Shooting When a Boy!

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 7

At the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday Solicitor F. A. Dodds made an appeal for his client, T. P. Willsallen, who…

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Sander Murder Trial Sharp Verbal Clashes

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

MANCHESTER (New Hampshire), Thursday.—Sharp verbal dasher, marked the Sander murder trial yesterday, as the…

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Snake Killed Outside Police Station

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 2

On Saturday morning last a 2ft snake went looking for trouble -- and found it -- when it wriggled its way into the local…

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Watersiders Summoned to Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A summons was issued out of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court this afternoon, calling on the…

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Trespass Case Dismissed at Tumut Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

Yesterday at the Tumut Police Court Maurice William Kiley and his sister Anistasia Irene Kiley proceeded against Douglas C Mann, an…

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Two Officers of Tarakan to Face Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wed.: Two of the ship's officers of H.M.A.S. Tarakan will be tried by court martial for responsibility in the…

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Gundagai Man Refused Time to Pay Convicted On Betting Charge “You Don’t ‘Welsh’ on Your Clients?” Asks Magistrate

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

“YOU don’t welsh on your lients, do you?” asked Stipendiary Magistrate Finlay at the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday when Norman Malcolm Leslie Hogan asked for time to pay a £20 fine imposed on him for betting in the Hume Hotel on February 11…

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Sheep Jumped on to Road Out of Grass Junee Police Vehicle Overturns

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 8

Constable Keith Rooke, of Junee, was riding the police motor cycle and side car along the Junee-Old Junee road when a sheep appeared out of…

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