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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

1,463 stories in Riverina's papers · page 65 of 74

3 Charged with Theft of £14,000

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 6

PERTH, Tuesday: Three railway men were arrested by detectives at Kalgoorlie today and charged with the theft of…

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70 Mph Chase From Wagga: Alleged Car Theft

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 2

A police officer was slightly injured at Collingullie early yesterday morning in an attempt to arrest a man who had allegedly stolen a car…

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Bicycles Claimed From Police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 2

Several people, including a man from Collingullie, have claimed bicycles which Wagga police had found abandoned…

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Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 3

Three men and two girls were convicted at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions for having had no lights on their bicycles in city streets…

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Sydney police blitz on S.P., gaming, liquor

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police Commissioner C. J. Delaney today ordered an immediate blitz on S.P. bookmakers and people breaking gaming and liquor laws. The orders were given at a…

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Woman Collapses After Losing Case at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1952 · page 1

An elderly woman collapsed yesterday in the precincts of the Wagga Courthouse after a verdict had been given against her in a detention of goods case heard before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M. The Wagga District Ambulance took the woman, Mrs…

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Police Officers and Public Affairs

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 6

At the last meeting of the Leeton Progress Association, a letter from the Premier (Mr. J. J. Cahill) was read which set out the police rule…

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Cootamundra Murder Charge to Be Heard in Sydney

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 6

Tht trial of Harold Lloyd Grant (24) and Ernest John Quinlan (28) who have been committed on a charge of…

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Police Chief's Campaign Reaction in Parliament

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday — Mr. Vernon Treatt, Leader of the State Opposition, said today that public officer who…

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3 Racing Men in Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Wed.: Charges of false pretences were laid against three racing men in Berri Police Court today and…

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Bulldozer Operator Sent to Gaol Could Not Get Sureties To Enter Into Bonds

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 4

Granted conditional bonds when he pleaded guilty at the Young, Cootamundra and and Bombala Courts to…

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Many Traffic Matters in Gundagai Court Exceding The Speed Limit

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 6

Many traffic matters were listed for hearing, in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday, the majority of which dealt with…

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Police Raid After Smash and Grab Job Two Men and a Woman Arrested

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — Four detectives today carried out a lightning raid on a house in Unwin's Bridge road, St. Peters, and arrested two men and a woman who were in bed with their clothes on…

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Court of Potty Sessions TUESDAY, 18th NOVEMBER (Before Mr. F. J. Hale, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 6

William Wilkinson (48). John Kinnaine (59), Harold Hunt (46), Alfred Bamblett (54) were charged with drunkenness, but did not appear…

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Twice Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (AAP): James John Alcott 23, an ex-soldier, heard himself sentenced to death for murder…

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He Pleaded to Junee Court "I'm Guilty". But Magistrate Diamissed Charges

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 8

When Ordinary-Seaman Gilbert Campbell joined the Royal Australian Navy he may or may not have had thought…

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Kooba land valuation Appeal Court's Judgment

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 6

Mr. Justice Sugerman on Thursday of last week in the Land and Valuation Court at Sydney, delivered his…

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Constable Fined for Assault

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1952 · page 4

MAITLAND, Friday: A constable who charged a man with assault was today fined for having assaulted the man…

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Invalid on Charge of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: A partly-crippled invalid pensioner, who uses a crutch, was today committed for trial by the Coroner (Mr. Burke, S.M.) on a charge of having murdered Enrico…

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U.K. Migrants and Police in Fight Violent scenes as hostel family evicted

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: More than 50 Commonwealth officers and uniformed State police struggled and fought with British migrants at Brooklyn Hostel today when the Commonwealth officers evicted a family…

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