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Courts & crime, 1950

1,296 stories in Riverina's papers · page 14 of 65

Police Acquitted

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 1

GRAFTON, Thursday: Three Dorrigo policemen have been acquitted of a charge of having assaulted a man at Dorrigo…

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Trespass Charge Case Dismissed At Tumut Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 1

At the Tumut Court on Wednesday M. W. Kiley and W. M. Riley and A. I. Kiley proceeded against D. C. Mann for entering enclosed…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 6th MARCH (Before Mr. E. Debenham. S.M.) Alleged Malicious Wounding

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 2

Costas Ella (25) was charged with ma[?] wounding John Sa[?] Mulholland: and on a second court with ma[?] wounding Kevir…

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Charged With Insulting Pope

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 4

ROME, Friday (A.A.P.): The Italian Lower House has lifted Parliamentary immunity from the Communist woman deputy,…

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Two Men at Lee ton Court Sent For Trial

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 2

LEETON, Friday: At the Leeton Court today Jack Cecil King, 25, laborer, of Garfield Street, North Richmond (V.), and…

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Junee Police Vehicle Overturns

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 2

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

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The Dismantling Riots Punishment of German Police Demanded

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 1

BONN, Monday. — Britain's High Commissioner in Germany, General Sir Adrian Robertson, has demanded punishment of…

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Gaoled for Knife Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Mr. Denton, S.M., today sentenced Harold Leslie Reid, 28, miner, of East Sydney, to three months'…

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Alleged Breaking, Entering and Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 4

Leonard James (23) and Cecil Jack King (25) were charged with breaking and entering the laundry of Percy Choy, Leeton and Stealing a…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 6th MARCH (Before Mr. E. Debenham, S.M.) Indecent Behaviour

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 2

Kevin James Hands (22) was charged with behaving in an indecent manner in Narrandera Street, Gronp Grong, on 11th February…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, March 6 (Before Mr. E. Debenham, S.M.) Rabbit Cases

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 4

Narrandera Pastures Protection Board v. Nicholas Laurantus. failing to suppress rabbits on his Lake Midgeon property…

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Airliner Murder Husband to Hang for Crime

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 1

QUEBEC, Wednesday.—Thirty two year old Jewellery salesman. J. Albert Guay, will hang for the mourder of his wife—killed…

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Purtell To Ride Comic Court in Clark Stakes

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Leading Jockey J. Purtel) will ride Comic Court in preference to Chicquita in…

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Former Junee Police Sergeant Retires Inspector Hardy to Live in Manly

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 6

Former head of the Junee police, Inspector Hardy will retire from the force on 7th. April, and will leave Narrandera on 14th, of that…

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Newspaperman Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 2

ROME, Wednesday:Pietro Sangiorgi, managing-director of the Rome newspaper, "Avanti Ardito," was arrested yesterday…

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Gaoled for Theft at Tarcutta

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

ALBURY, Wednesday: Allegations by a man charged in Albury Quarter Sessions today with stealing, that he had been…

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Murder Charge Ruling

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Ruling there was nothing to show that death mas anything but an accident, a Judge at Luray…

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Death Sentence for Murder of Pensioner

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday Stanley David Kennedy, 21, was formally sentenced to death in tin Central Criminal Court today after…

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Youths Charged After Wagga Car Crash Acquitted of Killing Woman

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 5

Two youths were last night charged with driving under the influence after a utility' had struck two other vehicles in SYDNEY, Wednesday: Jack Molyneux, 37, foundary worker, was acquitted in Central Criminal Court today on a charge…

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To Hang for Murder of Wife in Air Crash

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

QUEBEC, Wednesday (AAP): Thirty-two-year-old jewellery salesman J. Albert Guay, will be hanged for the murder of his…

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