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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

1,463 stories in Riverina's papers · page 60 of 74

Man sought in Vic. murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Police are searching for a man who is believed to have hurriedly left the cottage in Atherton Street, Fitzroy, where a 28-year-old woman was found…

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Licensing Court

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 6

At the Liensing Court at Tumbarumba on Friday last Julius Phillip Heinecke applied to transfer the publican's license…

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Magistrate Says With Reluctance He Finds Charge Proved Muttama Man Fined On Driving Charge Solicitor Claims Police Painted The Lily

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

STATING THAT IT WAS WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF RELUCTANCE THAT HE FOUND A CHARGE OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL PROVED AGAINST MUTTAMA DISTRICT RESIDENT KENNETH HANLON, STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE WM. FINLAY, IN THE GUNDAGAI COURT LAST TUESDAY, ADDED THAT HE KNEW OF HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE THAT HANLON BORE A GOOD REPUTATION. BUT HE HAD A…

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Magistrate Does Not Like Gundagai’s Motor Parking Methods

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 4

Carping criticism of the method adopted in Gundagai for the parting of motor vehicles sin the street was…

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Police Risks in Chasing Speed-hogs

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The risks some police had to take to apprehend speed hogs were absolutely appalling,…

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McCarthy Remanded till Next Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

Roy Edwin McCarthy (28) was charged with being a clerk in the employ of the Railway Department he made a false entry in a book on or…

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Police Called in 7 people poisoned at Barellan

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

Det.—Sgt. B. J. Cloke, of the Wagga Police, and Det.-Sgt. Doyle, of the Sydney C.I.B., went to…

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Case Settled Out of Court Child Killed At Coolac

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 1

In March last year, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Vesperman was killed in a motor-accident at Coolac…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 20th OCTOBER (Before Mr. F. J. Hale, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

Charles Ernest Pedlar (37), Reginald Lipscombe (37), James McCall (53), George Anderson (36), Bailey, Murray (42), and John S. Millard…

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Stealing Coat and Watch Man Sentenced At Tumut To Year's Gaol

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 2

At the Tumut Court on Wednesday Stanley Sherring was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment by Mr. W…

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Arrested at Leeton on charge of stealing motor car

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 1

William Charles Burney was charged at the Narrandera Quarter Sessions on Monday before His…

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Breach of Good Behaviour Man Sentenced to 15 Months

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 3

Before His Honour Judge Brennan, on Monday, at Narrandera Quarter Sessions, John James Sullivan, aged 51,…

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Supreme Court ended

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 2

The 1952 sitting or the Supreme Court in Wagga concluded last night with the settlement of the last…

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Junee Land Holders Face Court Cases

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 8

Since June last Bethungra grazier, Lindsay George Means, has spent £965 in an effort to eradicate rabbits on…

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Wagga Court Hearing Continued From Page 2

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 3

Henwood: I admit I knew the land was going to be taken over by the Wagga City Council. I also admit I knew the…

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Savage Attack After Drink Party Cootamundra Case Recalled in Court

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 7

In the middle of the night, Franciszek Majcher, a migrant, was sleeping peacefully after a heavy drinking…

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Rail Officers Combine With Police in Blitz to Curh Unauthorised Transport of Goods by Road

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 1

RAILWAY OFFICERS, OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ARE MAKING A BLITZ THROUGHOUT THE JUNEE RAILWAY DISTRICT IN AN ENDEAVOUR…

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Plight Of Wheat Industry MR. H. K. Nock’s Facts and Figures Evidence Before Arbitration Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 8

Giving evidence, last Friday, in the Arbitration Court appeal for restoration of the 44-hour week and reduction of the basic Wage, Mr. Horace…

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Quarter Sessions THURSDAY, 23rd OCTOBER (Before His Honor Judge Brennan) Two Men Sentenced

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 1

The case in which Harry McCann McLaughlan and Guiseppe Farinelli were charged with a serious indecent offence at Widgiewa in May last, was…

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Hotel Cootamundra Death Inquest Begins Two Local Men on Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 2

The inquest into the death of James Anderson (also known as Gilligan), who was found dead in the yard of the Hotel Cootamundra on October 4, opened this morning…

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