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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

1,463 stories in Riverina's papers · page 42 of 74

Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 2

A 26-year-old Wagga man, Reginald Walsh, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. Quiggin, S.M., at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions on each of six charges of imposition or attempted imposition, and on a charge of vagrancy…

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Wife's Court claim

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A petitioning wife said in the Divorce Court today she had shared a flat for three weeks with her husband and a woman with whom he was then living…

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Gaming Charges Follow Temora Police Raid

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 1

Temora police raided a house in Britannia street and arrested about 20 people who were subsequently charged with being…

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Judge Guided the Jury in Discharging Young Junee Man on Serious Stealing Charges

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 3

AFTER JUDGE LR GAY BRERETON HAD INDICATED THAT IF THE DICISION WAS HIS HE WOULD RETURN A VERDICT FOR THE DEFENDANT, A JURY AT THE WAGGA QUARTER…

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Jury Acquits R.a.a.f. Man on Charge of Wagga Assault

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 2

Deliberating for three hours and forty eight minutes a jury at the Quarter Sessions in Wagga last night acquitted 22-year-old airframe fitter, John Joseph Ford, of two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily…

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Cowra Woman on Murder Charge Death of Daughter's Fiance

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 1

COWRA, Wednesday—A 50-year-old woman of Noonbinna, near Cowra, was arrested yesterday and charged with the…

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Soldier Given Bond at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 2

Henry George Conwell, 28, soldier, Kapooka, was sentenced by Judge Brereton at the Quarter Sessions in…

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Judge Gaols Man at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 2

"You have pleaded guilty to one of the meanest offences there is, that of stealing from your mate in the Army," Judge Brereton yesterday told 18-year-old Brian Kevin Cranston, of…

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Hawkesbury River Drama Police Launch to Rescue Expectant Mothers

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Police will make a five-mile dash up the flooded Hawkesbury river to Kurrajong today to bring two…

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Deadly Poison Sold Openly Police Act After Cowra Man's Death

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 1

As a result of the death, last week, of Cowra man, Allan Williams, police have asked the State Government to tighten up…

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Police Launch Save Boy in Flood Area Seriously ill in loft

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A two-year-old boy, lying seriously ill in the loft of a flood-bound farm shed near Windsor was rescued by police aboard a rescue bunch today…

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Dice Players Appear in Court Sequel To Recent Raid By The Police

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 7

Following on a police raid on a house in Harden, 13 men were charged and fined at the Murrumburrah Court of Petty…

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Alleged Murder of Daughter's Fiance

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 2

A 60-year-old woman, or Noonbinna, bear Cowra, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with the murder of her daughter's fiance. She is Mrs. Ruby…

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The Corbett Murder Inquest Opens

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—The inquest opened today into the death of taxi driver William Corbett (30)…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 2

A Victorian truck driver who drove a load of wool between Sydney and Melbourne without a permit was fined £25 at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions…

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Kapooka soldier before Court on 5 charges

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 2

The hearing of evidence against a young Kapooka soldier who faces five serious charges arising out of an accident near the camp on March 17 continued in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. The soldier is Ronald…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 28th JULY. (Before Mr. F. J. Hale, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1952 · page 6

John Orton Shus (07), Thomas Johnson (20). and Ernest John Wilson (29, Leeton) were charged with drunkenness, but did not appear…

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Wagga Quarter Sessions Stealing Charge Dismissed

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 1 August 1952 · page 7

At the Wagga Court of Quarter Sessions John Raymond Linsell, of Ganmain, was on Tuesday last found Not…

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Three Youths Charged with Rape

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thurs.: The eldest of three youths charged with rape at the Criminal Court today was told by the…

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Theft of Wireless Set Man Arrested On Train

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 1 August 1952 · page 2

Snr.-Constable Jack Brydon, of Tumut, had to rush by police car to Gundagai yesterday to overtake the diesel train to…

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