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Courts & crime, 1952

1,463 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 74

Police Chiefs Thanks to Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

The superintendent of the Wagga Police (Mr. E. Ryan) said yesterday he had received a letter of appreciation…

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Prison Riot in Canada Guards, Firemen, Police Called Out

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

VANCOUVER, Friday Guards, firemen, amt police used tear gas and fire hoses to quell a riot…

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Tumut Farmers Application For Ejectment Full Court's Share Farming Decision

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 2

The Full Court held on Tuesday that a person claiming a share under an oral share farming agreement had no defence to…

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Police Officers Promoted

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The Acting Commissioner of Police (Superintendent C. J. Delaney) today announced four high police officers had been promoted…

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Court Rejects Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: A criminal, first convicted at the age of 6, today had his appeal against a sentence of…

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Father, Son Feature in Court Case

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A father today said in Court that he should be in the dock in place of his son…

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Single Court Competition Final Won by Whites' Team

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 6 October 1952 · page 2

The grand final match of the [?] Courts tennis competition was played at the Railway courts on saturday afternoon…

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Mackay Murder Elderly Woman a Victim

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 1

MACKAY, Tuesday—Sixty-year-old Helen Marti was battered to death and outraged early…

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Paper wants Farouk on murder trial

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 2

CAIRO, Monday (A.A.P.): The influential Wafdist newspaper, "Al Misri," said today it was necessary to try…

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Double Murder? Two bodies found at Kiandra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Police believe two young men, whose bodies were found in a deserted hut…

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Body in Hotel Yard Not Murder Victim Shearer Believed Accidentally Killed

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 2

Police do not suspect that the man who was found dead in the yard of the Hotel Cootomundra on Saturday was murdered. They believe that the man a shearer, may have…

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Brutal murder of woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 1

MACKAY, Tuesday: The battered nude body of a middle-aged woman was found in Queen's Park…

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Ex-Gundagai man on murder charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: After Mrs. Ellen Lawson, 72, had been found strangled in her bed at Corrimal early today, ber husband, Corrimal postmaster Robert William Lawson, 51, was charged with…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 2

A Wagga motorist, who police said, was arrested by two civilians after his car had collided with a bicycle in Hampden Avenue, North Wagga, was fined a total of £25 at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for drunken driving and inefficient brakes…

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More Thallium Cases Police Investigations

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Police are investigating another case of thallium poisoning of a young woman who is seriously…

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Riverina Fires Venue change asked in Court claim

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Claims totalling £2-million had been made against the Railway Commissioner following catastrophic bushfires…

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Industrial Court TUESDAY, 7th OCTOBER (Before Mr. K. Smith, Industrial Magistrate)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 9 October 1952 · page 1

John William Taylor (Inspector of Factories and Shops Act, 1912-1950) v. Dixon's Sawmills Pty. Ltd., failing to securely fence all dangerous parts…

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Truck Theft Charge in Kiandra Case Adminaby Man in W. Wyalong Court

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 October 1952 · page 1

WEST WYALONG, Thursday—A man charged with the theft of a truck became frightened and left a Kiandra hut when he found one of his companions dead and the other nearly dead after…

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Two Local Men Arrested for Alleged Murder Bail Refused in Court This Morning

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 October 1952 · page 2

At the Cootamundra Court of Petty Sessions this morning Ernest James Quinlan (28) with feloniously and maliciously murdering James Anderson at Cootamundra on October 3, 1952…

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Priest here after being in Red gaol

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 October 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A Franciscan priest, Father Rudolf Pifko, a Yugoslav, arrived this morning from…

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