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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,195 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 60

Assault Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 2

A new Australian, Otto Broz, aged 30, appeared before the Wagga Police Court yesterday morning, charged with…

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N.S.W. Search for Victorian Gaol Escapees

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: New South Wales police are on the alert for the two men who escaped from Corrimungle prison…

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Illegal Car Users Sentenced

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 2

At the Manly Court of Petty Sessions last week, before Mr. E. Cox, S.M., formerly C.P.S. at Hay, Keith John Woodwell (19) and John C…

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Dr. Jones in Court on Two Charges

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—A Macquarie street specialist, Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, was taken to St. Vincents Hospital…

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Dr. Stuart [?]In Court. Stomach Pump Used After His Arrest?

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: The well-known Macquarie street specialist, Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital and a…

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A Mean Theft

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 2

A particularly mean theft occurred recently when over 150 ft. of hose was stolen from the agricultural plot of the students of…

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Motor Cyclist Charged Driving Under Influence

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 4

Clifford Herbert Wills was charged at the Leeton police court on Friday before Mr. K. Smith, S.M., with driving a motor cycle…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Yesterday)

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 2

Before Mr. W. Finiay, S.M. Spuds! Joseph Bell (29), Sidney Wilfred Basil Bromley (38), Edward…

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Fined for Betting Men Before Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 4

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, before Mr. K. Smith, S.M., a number of men were charged with batting…

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Uni. Students Charged With Factory-Breaking

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Police said that a shot was fired by police during the chase of a youth who, with two others, was…

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Police Exhume Woman's Body

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 3

CHRISTCHDRCH, Tuesday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Police early today exhumed the body of Mrs. Elsie Ellen Wells, wife of…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 2

GEORGE HAMILTON, of Wall-Street, North Wagga, was fined £3 with 10/ costa for having driven a vehicle of excessive…

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Apprentice B. Killian to Ride Skip Court in Challenge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Apprentice Brian Killian snapped up an offer to ride Skip Court in the Challenge Stakes after the horse lad run an attractive trial at Victoria Park today…

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Theft and Arson Charges at Coolamon Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 5

COOLAMON, Wednesday: At the Coolamon Court of Petty Sessions today, before Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., Leslie Arthur…

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Yass Man Apologises to Magistrate

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

In a recent issue of Yass “Tribune” well known Yass' identity, John Joseph Cusack makes a public apology…

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Murder Charge Against Shearer

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A charge of having murdered Mrs. Edith Hill at Astor Flats, Macquarie Street, and stealing…

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Divorce Raid; Wife-murder Charge Fails

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

CARMEL (New York), Wed. (A.A.P.): Director Herbert Gehr was yesterday acquitted of charges that he killed his wife…

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Police Break Up Aboriginal Strikers' March

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 4

DARWIN, Wednesday: A mob of 32 aboriginal strikers, armed with sticks, who were marching on Darwin from Merrimah…

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Japan's Police Reserve Training "Like an Army"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 4

NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Japan's new khaki-clad National Police Reserve force of 75,000 men and its quasi-military training programme are described in yesterday's issue of the "Saturday Evening…

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“We’ll Take Over This Country in Two Years” New Australian Fined In Yass Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 7

ACCORDING to the prosecution, in the Yass Court last week a New Australian beasted in the main street of Yass that in two years the immigrants would take over Australia, and then the present dwellers would become the…

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