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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,195 stories in Riverina's papers · page 45 of 60

Negligent Driving Grazier Fined At Tumut Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 1

At the Tumut Court on Wednesday before Mr. J. McCauley, S.M., James Brennan, of Eurobin, was charged with…

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Suicide in Front of Police Young Man's Death in Queensland

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday—Police tried to reason with a man for three hours yesterday before he shot himself on a station at…

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Took Revolver As Crate Burst Open Police Use Magnet to Recover Weapen

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 6

Police had to use a large magnet with a battery attached to recover a huge service pistol from a well at Coolamon recently…

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Court Captains for Tennis Tourney Arrangement in Event Of Rain latervening

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 8

In the event of no piny on Saturday in the annual tennis tourney owing to weather conditions Saturday's programme will be…

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Coolamon Court of Petty Sessions (September 19th before Mr. E.A. Harvey, S.m) Possession of Pistol

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 1

Ronald A. Nobie (39) was charged with having a 45 calibre pistol reasonably suspected of having been unlawfully obtained. He…

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Woman, Child Killed by Car Man Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — Mrs. Essie Elizabeth Hebden, 70, and Anne Elizabeth Warne, 6, of Cumming Avenue, North…

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N.s.w. Police Force Rated Among the World’s Best

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 3

The NSW Police Force was “equllay as, good, if not better”,-than any other police force in the world” the Commissioner…

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Three Sentenced to Death; Murder at Wollongong

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Monday: A Wollongong Supreme court jury tonight returned a verdict of guilty against three Hungarians charged with the muffler of a woman hotel licensee…

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Wagga Police Alerted for Four Gaol Escapees

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 1

Wagga police are watching for four of the six dangerous young men who escaped from the Bathurst Gaol at 8.30 a.m. yesterday. The other two men were recaptured last…

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News From The Plains The Hold-up of Police Magistrate Bayliss

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 8

We have received the following letter from "Peter Snodgrass," of "The Land" newspaper, written by Mr, H. G. Hammond, of…

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Huge Manhunt for Four Gaol Escapees Bloodhounds Being Used

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 1

BATHURST, Tuesday.—Two hundred men, armed with shotguns, rifles, and revolvers, are…

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Fair Rents Court Shop Rentals Raised

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 3

Mr. F. C. Mountford made application in the Fair Rents Court on Friday last for the determination of the fair rentals of three shops and…

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Gaol Escapees Recaptured at Blayney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 1

BLAYNEY, Tues.: After being at liberty for 30 hours the four remaining escapees from Batburst Geol were…

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Gumly Youth Committed for Alleged Theft

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

An 18-years-old land worker, Edgar Wallace Edwards, of Tarcutta Road, Gumly, was committed for trial on a…

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"P.p. Board Very Fair" Says Magistrate

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 1

Commenting on the action of the Gundagal P.P. Board in not pressing for heavy penalties against graziers who were…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 3

Noel Rake, of Trail Street, Wagga failed to appear in the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to answer…

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Mass Produced Work in Court

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

One hundred and eighty-seven small debts summonses warn dealt with in Blayney Court of Petty Sessions in one day…

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NEW AUSSlES in Junee Court Taken Off Express at Junee Station

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 5

Explaining to the Junee Police Court that he was not drunk, a New Australian. Antol Andros said that he had only had a couple…

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Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A Criminal Court jury today found Stanley Henry Shaw, 32, former professional boxer,…

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The Story of Henry Baylis Police Magistrate and Gallant Gentleman

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 6

Those of in who have been connected with the Farmers and Settlers' Association for any length of time have cause to remember poor old…

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