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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,195 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 60

Police Swoop in U.K.; Charges of Inciting Strikes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): Six men arrested in a Scotland Yard raid on a public house at Stepney, in the London dock area, were charged last night with conspiring to incite dockers to participate in illegal…

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More Dockers Leave Work Win U.k. Strike Leaders Charged

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): A nation-wide un official strike threataned to cripple Britain's ports' when 24,000 dockers failed to report for work yesterday…

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Death Sentence for Murder of De Facto Wife

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 2

HOBART, Sunday: In the Hobart Criminal Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Green sentenced Walter Robert Gillies. 31, truck…

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Burns Appeal Taken From Judge Berne. Communist Editor Doesn't Want to Go to Gaol

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Judge Berne, of the District Court, will not be permitted to continue the hearing of the appeal by William Fardon…

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Court of Petty Sessions Friday, February 9 (Before Mr. W. H. Hall, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 1

John Joseph Foley (59), who gave his address as the Common, was again charged with being found drunk in East Street…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, February 12 (Before Mr. W. H. Hall, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

William Archer, 35, who gave his address at Hobart, was charged with using indecent language. Constable Stretton stated that…

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Man on Charge of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A 34-year-old carpet layer was reminded at Central Court today on a charge of murder…

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Police in Gun Battle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday (AAP) A Chinese plain-clothes detective and a Chinese volunteer constable in civilian clothes fought…

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Full Court Restrains Judge Berne From Hearing Burns' Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The State Full Court today made an order restraining Judge Berne of the District Court from dealing further with the Burns' sedition appeal case…

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Murder Charge Dropped

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Crown will not file a bill of murder against William Birtle, the Minister for Justice (Mr. Downing)…

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Four Men Charged with Harden Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 1

Among other charges preferred against four young men in the Liverpool Court was one of having broken and entered a…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 3

A haulier was fined £100 at Wagga Court yesterday for having driven a motor truck and trailer which was not…

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Milkcarter Arrested on Murder Charge Printing Engineer Shot in Back

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — A 22-year-old milk carter was arrested this morning and charged with the murder Of Richard Thomas Pope, 30, printing engineer…

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Court Move to "Free" Hotel From Brewery

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An application for an order that Tooth and Co. Ltd. should discharge mortgage over the Union…

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Big Theft at Goulburn Woman Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — Police alleged in the Supreme Court that a woman charged with a £1000 Jewel robbery had…

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Woman Charged With Big Theft at Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Police alleged in the Supreme Court today that a woman charged with a £1000 jewel robbery had…

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Theft Charges in Wagga Court Jemmy Produced as Exhibit

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1

A 2ft. long jemmy was produced as an exhibit at Wagga Court yesterday, when a man was charged with having…

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Man Acquitted of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A storeman who the Crown alleged deliberately pushed a stranger from Queen's Bridge into the…

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Wagga Man on Theft Charges; Jemmy Produced

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 2

A two-feet-long jemmy was produced as an exhibit at Wagga Court yesterday when a man was charged with having broken into the Wagga City Bowling Club Ltd. and the office of the Returned…

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Police Seek Brief Bag

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 2

A black leather brief bag with zipp fastener, which was stolen from a parked motor in Baylis Street, Wagga, about a month…

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