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Courts & crime, 1951

1,195 stories in Riverina's papers · page 31 of 60

Culcairn Annual Police Ball

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 3

At the 7th annual Culcairn Police Ball to be held tonight at the Culcairn Memorial Hall, attractions will Include special…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 2

EDWARD Arnold Day, fencer of Wagga, pleaded guilty in the Wagga Court yesterday to a charge of having, at Wesley,…

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Women in Assault Charge

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 2

In the Gundagai Court this week the case Edith M. Dowell versus Linda M. Bowditch on a charge of unlawful as…

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Cliff Not Guilty of Sheep Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 1

Dudley Chalmers Clift was charged with stealing 200 sheep, the properly of Moolbong Pty. Ltd., on or about 22nd January, 1951; also with at…

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U.S. Pressman Sentenced by Czechs as Spy

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 4

FRANKFORT, Wed; William Oatis, American newspaper correspondent, was Sentenced to-day by a Prague court to ten…

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Comic Court Training

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wednesday:—Comic Court has resumed training in preparation for the big spring races…

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Vehicle Lighting Police Help Sought

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 2

Selfishness of many motorists and pedal cyclists in refusing to obey the lighting regulations is attached…

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The Motor World Vehicle Lighting; Police Help Sought

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 3

Selfishness of many motorists and pedal cyclists in refusing to obey the lighting regulations is attacked by the NRMA, which…

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Quarter Sessions Monday, July 2 (Before His Honor Mr. Judge Berne) Not Guilty of Assault

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 1

Domenic Macedone was charged with that he did at Yoogall, near Griffith, assault Tulllio Dinicola, thereby occasioning actual bodily…

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Boycott Quite Lawful Counsel Claims In Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mr. Isaacs, K.C., submitted today in the Special Federal Court that encouragement of a boycott was not a criminal offence and that baycotts, like strikes, were perfectly valid…

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Court Case Over Pamphlets on Hardy Trial

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A man had printed 28,418 pamphlets relating to the trial of Prank Hardy, author of "Power Without…

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Blitz on Motorists— Long List of Traffic Offences at Gundagai Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 2

THIRTY-TWO cases were set down for hearing in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday, and of this total, nineteen related to motor traffic breaches The charges were a mixed…

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Appeal by Counsel for Destruction of Finger Prints Refused Stranger’s Apology Accepted By Police

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 2

WHEN transport driver Leo Adrian McGuinness drove into Gundagai one Sunday recently he ran into…

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Court of Petty Sessions Tuesday, July 3 (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.) Rabbit Cases

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 6

Narrandera Pastures Protection Board v. Albert John Chitts, failing to suppress rabbits on his holding at Corobimillia…

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Millionaire Red Sympathiser Sent to Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday. — Millionaire communist sympathiser, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, has been sentenced to 90 days'…

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Gaol Escapees Found Under Load of Wood

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 2

GOULBURN, Thursday: Two gaol escapees were recaptured under a load of wood in a prison truck parked in the…

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Stealing at Batlow Young Man Fined On Two Charges

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 2

Leonard James Pavey was charged at the Tumut Court on Wednesday with two counts of stealing at Batlow. The first was stealing one pair…

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Begging Alms in Tumut Man Gets Three Months' Gaol

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 5

At the Tumut Court on Wednesday Alexander John Hampden, of no lived place of abode, was charged with being drunk and begging aims…

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Footprints Gave Fettler Away to Police

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 7

Constable A. J. Lowe, of Marulan, followed footprints for two miles to find a man who had stole a number of rabbit…

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HOT-PLATING Man Fined At Tumut Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court on Wednesday Colin Leslie Johnson was charged with operating a vehicle for hire, such vehicle not…

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