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Courts & crime, 1951

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Theft from Store at Ganmain

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 2

GANMAIN, Monday: Thieves who entered the property of Mr. R. K. McLean, storekeeper, of Church Street, Ganmain, early…

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Two Charged With Assaulting Taxi-Driver

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Two men who assaulted and tried to rob a taxi-driver were chased by the driver and one was caught, it was until tomorrow on a charge of attempting to rob William John Loombs. Detective E. Bridges told the…

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Police Seek Missing Boy

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 2

Wagga Police are anxious to know the whereabouts of a boy who has been missing from his home at Culcairn since early…

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Many Charged at Leeton Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

LEETON, Tuesday: Leeton police had a very busy weekend. Thirty-seven persons were charged with offences including…

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Theft at Wagga; Two Youths Fined

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

Two youths who stole £35 from a New Australian were each fined £18 at the Wagga Court yesterday. They were Vincent John…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: David Eccles. 54, was remanded in the City Court today until January 8 on a charge of murdering…

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Ganmain Youth for Trial on Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

A 20-year-old Ganmain laborer, Reginald Joseph Wells, was at Wagga Court yesterday committed for trial on a charge of…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

TWENTY-SIX people were arrested for drunkenness in Wagga over the holiday period Four men and one woman…

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Woman Charged with Murder of Two Children

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE Wednesday: A 21-year-old married woman was charged at the City Watchhouse this afternoon with the murder…

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Armidale Editor Ordered Out of Court Contempt Alleged By Magistrate

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

The Managing Editor of the “Armidale Express”, Mr R. L. Blake, was ordered from the Court of Petty…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday:—Charged with the murder of Stanley Riceborough, 24, at Box Hill on December 23, John Joseph…

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Comic Court to Race in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: Comic Court, Australia's outstanding racehorse, is expected to race in Sydney at the Autumn carnival…

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Man Reports Loss of £500 to Junee Police

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

A Junee man reported to police that £500 was stolen one night last week from [?] shed in which he lives…

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Solicitor Walks Out of Court When Warned

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A case in which a taxi-driver was charged with assault and occasioning actual bodily harm was…

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Charged with 2 Murders and Big Jewel Theft

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Already charged with two murders. Ronald Newman Cribbin, 21, shearer, today appeared at…

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Leeton Police Court Motor Cyclist Convicted Of Making Noise and Negligent Driving

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

Alan J. Grant, of 86 Wandoo St., was charged nl Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday with riding a motor cycle in Palm Avenue, Leeton…

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Woman Collapses When Charged with Murdering Two Babies

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: A young married woman screened and then collapsed in the dock at the City Court today, when she was remanded on charges of having murdered her two babies…

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Mrs. Menzies at Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday: A Court circular announces that Mrs. R. G. Menzies, wile of the Australian Prime Minister, was…

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Police to Probe Stories About Mental Home

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Cabinet decided today that police must immediately investigate published allegations by a Sydney journalist that patients are being ill-treated at Callan Park Menial Hospital…

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District Grazier in Junee Court Faces Charge Over Unlicensed Revolver

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 7

A district grazier, John F. L. McRae, of "Mt Pleasant", Junee, was charged in the Court of Petty Session on Wednesday afternoon…

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