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Courts & crime, 1950

1,296 stories in Riverina's papers · page 43 of 65

Shooting in Darling Point Flat Woman Later Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A woman was charged with shooting, with attempt to murder, after a man had been shot in the…

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Police Seek This Man

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 2

POLICE are asking anyone seeing Wilfred Heart, alias West (pictured above), to contact them…

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Comic Court Looks Well

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:—Comic Court looked particularly fit when he ran an easy mile at Flemington this morning in 1.52½…

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Double Murder Is Suspected. Girl's Body Found In Waterhole

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police suspect a double murder following the discovery of the bodies of two young girls in a waterhole near…

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Charged With Shooting Her Husband

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: Mr. Hodgson. S.M., today allowed ball of £500 in Paddington Court to a woman charged with having shot her…

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Fisherman Charged with Toukley Murders

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 1

WYONG, Thursday After he was been questioned for 8½ hours, a Toukley fisherman was charged at 2 o'clock this morning with…

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Charged with Murdering Family of Five

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 1

EAST GREENWICH (Rhode Island), Wed. (A.A.P.): Police announced today that Edwin Reynolds, 27, had been arrested…

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Bicycles at Police Station

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 2

Wares police stated last night that several bicycles were a waiting to be claimed at the Police station…

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Brutal Murder of Two Young English Girls

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Two English girls who recently arrived in Australia were found brutally battered to death at Toukley, in the Wyong district, early today…

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Private Prosecution for Murder Unusual Case in Britain

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday. — Yorkshireman John Woodhouse, yesterday persuaded five magistrates at Little Hampton…

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Reported Murder Near Quirindi C.I.B. Officers to Investigate

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — A report that a man had been murdered at Coroona, about 20 miles from Quirindi, was received by…

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Charged with Murder of Two Girls

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday: A 25-year-old fisherman was charged in Newcastle Court today with the murder at Toukley of…

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Father and Son Charged with Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Thursday: At Quirindi this afternoon a father and his 36-year-old son were charged with murder…

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Police Claim Man Admitted Double Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 31-year-old accountant has told police that he "went mad" and killed his two children with a…

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Private Prosecution for Murder of Girl When Police Drop Case

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (AAP): In the second private prosecution for murder in Britain's criminal records, a murdered girl's father yesterday persuaded magistates at Little Hampton (Sussex) to issue a…

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McNicol Among Men Charged Over Signpost SYDNEY, Thursday

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 3

Sevent men were summoned today to appear at Manly Court on charges of attempting to damage or remove the San…

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Bombay Riots Police Open Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 1

BOMBAY, Friday.—Police opened fire repeatedly on Bombay demonstrators yesterday, killing five and wounding 41:…

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Bottle, in Swamp Believed to Be Murder Weapon

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 1

WYONG, Friday.—Detectives yesterday found n broken bottle which they believe was the main weapon used to batter two…

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Reds Launch Assault on Southern Front But Driven Back in the North

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 1

TOKIO, Friday (AAP-Reuter)—North Korean troops, estimated of two divisions, began an assault against the southern front in Korea before dawn today against the American 25th Division, quickly…

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Unwanted Boy Sent to Institution From Court

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 2

A sixteen year old Cowra lad was committed to an institution at the local Court because nobody wanted him…

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