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Courts & crime, 1950

1,296 stories in Riverina's papers · page 49 of 65

Gundagai Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 5

GUNDAGAI. Tuesday: At the Quarter Sessions today. Stanley Bernard Flynn and Paul Francis Smith pleaded…

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Police Disperse Reds

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 1

DUSSELDORF, Thurs.: Three hundred German police used truncheons to break up a protest march of 200 young…

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Japanese Charged with Beheading Wounded R.a.a.f. Man

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 3

LOS NEGROS, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Japanese on Ambon Island had beheaded an R.A.A.F. flight sergeant who was suffering a severe leg wound, the War Crimes Court was told today as three more…

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Attempt to Defraud Bookie of Huge Sum Accumulaed Dog Bet Ends in Gaol

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 7

A man who would have won more than £250,000 for [?] dog racing bet [?]…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, September 25 (Before Mr. K. Smith, S.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 1

Noel Kitchener 925) was charged with stealing one rubber bag containing one compact, one lip stick container, and one pair of sun glasses, of…

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Four Years for Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A 24-year-old laborer, who had been continuously in and out of gaols and institutions since the age…

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Jewellery Theft at W. Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 3

Thieves smashed a plate-glass window in the jeweller's shop of Les Scott, Main Street, west Wyalong over…

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Leeton Petty Sessions Stealing Charges

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 4

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, Robert Archibald and James Russell Appleby were charged with…

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Arrest Follows Jewellery Theft at W. Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 2

Constables Hately and Jones, of West Wyalong police, yesterday arrested a man in connection with the theft from Les…

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Three Months' Hard Labor Man Sentenced For Begging Aims In Tumut

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 2

At the Tumut Court House on Saturday morning last, Tumut J'sP. R. L. Blakeney and E. W. Holloway sentenced Patrick…

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3000 Reds in Battle With Hamburg Police

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.): Three thousand Communists battled with German police in the streets of Hamburg yesterday. Due to the mobilisation of the entire police force,…

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Police Allege Man Used Knife on Father

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: A man had about 20 stitches inserted in a wound in his scalp after Ms son attacked him with a fruit…

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Japanese to Be Hanged, Ours Gaoled for Mass-murder of P.o.w

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter): The War Crimes Court today sentenced a Japanese to death, by hanging and two others to gaol terms for the mass murder of Australian and Allied war…

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Melee in Tumut Police Station Two Snowy River Men Threaten "To Do the Sergeant Over"

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 2

At the Tumut Court on Thursday last Serjeant Hickson related details of the arrest of two men in Russell Street, Tumut, and the…

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Youth, 16. on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A 16-years-old youth was remanded at Toowoomba Children's Court today until October 10 on a…

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Police Warning to Shooters

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 2

Wagga police have rev[?]ed a number of complaints regarding persons shooting rifles in the vicinity of Alfredtown and…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 2

ROBERT Arthur Miner, [?], and [?]an William Grimes, 20. both of the R.A.A.F., Forest Hill were each fined 20/ at Wagga…

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Comic Court is Recovering

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Comic Court, equal favorite for the Caulfield Cup, has recovered from his muscular soreness and…

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Sheep Stealing Is Serious Menace Grazier Loses 400 Out of Large Mob

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 3

Hundreds of sheep have been stolen in the Cowra district in the past 2 months, without any indication of the identity of the…

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Local Items Wagga Circuit Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 2

Mr. Justice J. S. Clancy will preside at the annual Wagga Circuit Court, which will be held at the Court House on…

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