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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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

Acquitted of stealing from mother

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: George Edward Ellis, 43. of Prince Street, Canley Vale, was acquitted by a Quarter…

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Fresh Glue in Hacker Murder Case

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A.C.I.B. homicide detective went to Newcastle today to follow a fresh clue in the search for…

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Could Have Put Xmas in Gaol. Publican Saves Man Unhapppy Experience

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 21 December 1951 · page 2

Douglas Hancock was within an ace of spending Christmas and New Year in gaol after the hearing of a case at the Junee Court…

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10 Years' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday: Joseph Orsini, 50, a Frenchman wanted in his native land for treason, was sentenced to 10…

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Four Years' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Friday: Sentence of four years' gaol was today Imposed on Alwin Bruce Atkinson, 44, farmer, of…

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Local Items Assault Summons

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 2

In a recent Court case it was stated that A. R. Stanley, of 35 Fox Street, Wagga, proceeded against Allan William…

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£57 theft at Coota. hotel

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 1

While the licences of Tattersall's Hotel, Cootamundra, was at the Wagga greyhound meeting on…

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Charged with threats to Ken Howard

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Friday: A 31-years old woman had sent letters to radio commentator Ken Howard threatening to…

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Court Order to Leeton Growers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Injunctions compelling four Leeton fruitgrowers to sell their fruit to Leeton…

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Theft of Cornsacks at Lockhart

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Monday 24 December 1951 · page 4

At the Urana Court, on Friday, before Mr. Blackmore, P.M., William McIntosh, of Lockhart, was charged with stealing 90…

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Urana Court News

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Monday 24 December 1951 · page 8

There was a lengthy list of cases set down for hearing at the Urana Court, on Friday, before Mr. Blackmore, Police Magistrate…

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Full Court Declares for Short

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 December 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Full Arbitration Court yesterday made absolute an order nisi made by Mr. Justice Dunphy declaring Mr. Laurence Short national secretary of the…

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Woman charged over children

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A 24-year-old mother had left her four young children in a "deplorable condition" locked in a room at Lithgow, police alleged at Central Court today…

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Poser for Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Police today were set a poser when guards at Pentridge Gaol found a man hiding…

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Alleged Assault at Murrami Defendant Remanded

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 2

George Marinus Neilson aged 68, farmer, appeared on remand at the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday charged with unlawfully…

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Naval officer sent to gaol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: A Naval court-martial sentenced an officer who deserted H.M.A.S. Sydney to six months' gaol, and dismissed him from the service today…

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