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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,195 stories in Riverina's papers · page 46 of 60

Judge Rebukes Solicitor “Will Not Have Any Criticism of Magistrate”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 6

Solicitor F. A. Dodds received a stern rebuke in the Gundagai Quarter Sessions last Tuesday, when His…

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TUESDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. W. H. Hall, J.P.) Alleged Stealing at Tubbo Station

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 1

Joseph Anderson, 29, cook, employed at Tubbu station, Darlington Point, was charged that on 22nd September he did steal a quantity of…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 24th, SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. W. H. Hall, J.P.) Offensive Behaviour

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 1

John Basil Eldridge, on a charge of offensive behaviour in East Street, was fined £3, in default six days' hard labour…

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Theft Charges

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

Two young Forest Hill airmen were charged at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with…

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Murder of Former Tumut Hotelkeeper Three Hungarians Sentenced To Death At Wollongong

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 6

A Wollongong Supreme Court jury on Monday night returned a verdict of guilty against three Hungarians charged with the…

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Attempted Suicide Tumut Man Charged

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

At the Tumut Court House yesterday, before Mr. V. W. Heathwood, J.P., a Tumut man, Charles Melville Barton (68), a…

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At Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

In the report of a case at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, the words "manager of the R.S.L."…

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Local Items Police Seeking Gun

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

Wagga police are trying to locate a missing double-barrelled 12-gauge shotgun. The gun is a hammerless type…

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Stolen Car Ditched 5 Miles From Town Found by Junee Police Early This Morning

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 1

A new Holden car stolen from Wagga was found abandoned near Houlighan's creek on the Wagga Junee road five miles from town…

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Attack on Gaol Governor

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Darrell John Martin and one of the six prisoners who escaped from Bathurst Gaol last…

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Four Years For Car Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: Kenneth Warren Macklin. 37, of Avalon, was today sentenced to four years' gaol for car…

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Police Promotions

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The following police promotions were announced today by the Police Department:—…

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Youth Charged for Illegal Use of Six Cars

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 2

Wagga police have charged a 15½-year-old youth with the illegal use of six cars. The boy, tired and dirty, was arrested on the Junee…

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Seamen and Police in Brawl

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Police land seamen brawled on Station Pier Port Melbourne to-day…

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Charged With Thrashing Son

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday: Police last night charged Claude Smith, laborer, of Gordon Avenue, Granville, with…

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Court of Petty Sessions FRIDAY, 23th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 2

Joseph Anderson (29) was charted with stealing a quantity of mutton and pork, the property of the Tubbo Pastoral Co. Ltd., of the value of…

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Murray River Mystery Murder Theory

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—South Australian detectives will today question a man on a Victorian sheep station about the body of…

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Car Driver Fatally Shot Engineer Charged With Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A youth found fatally shot in a car at Newtown last night has been identified as 19-year-old…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 2

Peter Haggart, of the R.A.A.F. Station, Forest Hill, pleaded guilty to three charges which arose from an…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Leslie Daniel Slade, 36, engineer, of Darlington, was remanded without bail in the Newtown…

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