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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

1,296 stories in Riverina's papers · page 52 of 65

Palace Burglary

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday: Douglas Monro, 35, seaman, wag remanded until October 28 when charged at Bow Street yesterday with…

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Chase Follows Albury Theft of 30 Watches

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

ALBURY, Sunday: A 14-year-old schoolboy who raised an s[?]arm early on Saturday night was responsible for the arrest of…

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Police Chase Man Over Roofs of Houses

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Detectives with guns drawn caught a man at Annandale today after a rooftop-to-rooftop chase over five houses. They later charged the man…

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Security Police Probe Ballot-papers "Leakage" "Scandal" Denied

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Commonwealth Electoral Officer (Mr.R. W. Evans) said tonight he would call in Security Police to investigate a "leakage" of ballot pipers from a Sydney paper-pulping factory. Mr. Evans denied that there was any scandal attached to the delivery of the…

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No Wage Rise Till Court Amends Awards

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 2

The Acting Professor of Commerce at Melbourne University (Dr O. D. Foenander) said that before any…

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Charged With Stealing Mail Bags

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY. Monday: Lawrence John McLeish, 30, motor driver of Surry Hills, was charged at the North Sydney Court today…

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Murder Appeal Dismissed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday: "The Victorian Court of Criminal Appeal unanimously dismissed the nine grounds of appeal by…

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Three Freed on Charge of Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Three of four young men charged with assaulting a 59-year-old wool-classer at Waverley were…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2

Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M. Nine Charges Allan Keith Sheather pleaded guilty to stealing a water bag, 3…

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More Japanese Charged Australian Soldiers "Unlawfully Treated As Spies and Hanged"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 4

LOS NEGROS, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter): General Masataka Yamawaki, former Japanese Vice-Minister of War, was charged before the War Crimes Court here today with the murder of Australian…

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Coolac Grazier Issues Summons P.P. Board Chairman Charged With Failure To Destroy Rabbits

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 3

Well-known Coolac grazier, Mr. D. A. C. Sullivan, last week issued a summons against the Chairman of the Gundagai P.P. Board…

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No Wage Rise Till Court Amends Awards

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 1
Also in The Tumut and Adelong Times

The Acting Professor of Commerce an Melbourne I university (Dr. O. D. Foenander said that before any employee could receive the basic…

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Starting Price Betting Men Before Court Sequel to Raid

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 5

John Franiis Scanlan was charged at the Leeton Police Court on Friday with using premises situated at 67 Pine Avenue, for the…

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Man Charged With Bashing Wife

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 4

Tuesday: Sidney Norman Dart, 67, of Kensington had hammered his 74-year -old wife on the head with an Iron…

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Woman Not Guilty of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A Criminal Court jury found today that a slightly-built woman of 42 was not guilty, on the ground…

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Brothers Charged After Death of Man

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A five ton track travelling at 40 to 50 m.p.h. without lights struck and killed a man standing near a P.M.G. truck, careered on for about 700 yards and "swept like a juggernaut" over…

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Woman Gets Five Years' Gaol for Manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Isabel May Johnson, 49, housewife, found guilty of the manslaughter of Muriel Joyce Franklin, a…

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Wyalong Man Charged After Police Find

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 4

WEST WYALONG, Thursday: Police found a cache containing 27 opal dress and signet rings, watches, folding clocks and a…

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Sentenced on Nine Charges Had Long Record, Say Police

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 2

An employee of the Southern Elecricity Supply, Allan Keith Sheather, hit tee high spots at, the last sitting of the…

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