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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

1,463 stories in Riverina's papers · page 66 of 74

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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Two men sentenced for theft of car at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 3

A soldier and a laborer were sentenced to five months' and four months' hard labor respectively at the Quarter Sessions in Wagga yesterday for stealing a car. Twenty-five-year-old…

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Car Theft Legislation

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 4

Hope that N.S.W. would follow Victoria by introducing legislation making car thefts difficult has been dashed…

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£4000 Theft at Factory

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Goods valued at £4000 were stolen from the factory of Briscoe and Co. Ltd., in Roden Street…

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McDERMOTT to Get £500 Five years in gaol; not guilty

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Frederick Lincoln McDermott will be paid £500 by the N.S.W…

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Peeping Tom disturbed by woman's scream Man Taken From Bed and Arrested by Police

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 2

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Saturday morning, Joseph Vangor, aged 24, was charged that on…

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Kapooka Soldier Charged with Driving Offence

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 2

Judge Brennan in yesterday's Quarter Sessions in Wagga adjourned until this morning the trial of a soldier charged with having by negligent act caused grievous bodily barm, after the Crown Prosecutor and counsel for the accused debated in the absence of the 12-man jury for a half hour on the admissability of certain evidence…

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Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 2

A 31-year-old Burrandana laborer, Jack Cowell, was fined £15 at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor…

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Junee Death Police Probe Details

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 2

Wagga and Junee police are investigating the death of a 34-year-old man who died in Junee…

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Junee Man's Death Police Probe Details

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 1

Wagga and Junee police are investigating the death of a 34-year-old man who died in Junee District Hospital…

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Two Tear Bond for Junee Theft Judge Warns Man To Go Straight

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 7

A 35 year old man, Thomas Malcolm Macartney, was given a £50 two year good behaviour bond at the…

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Court Charges Over Art Book

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Charges against a Sydney publisher and a printing firm arising from the publication of a book called "The Art of Rosaleen Norton" were adjourned until December 15 in the Central Court today…

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Police Dogs in Search for Man Lost in Field

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Two police dogs left Penrith training kennels today to help in the search of the share farmer who disappeared from…

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Wagga Court Told Fires Lit on Property Echo of Bushfires

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 1

Sydney barrister (Mr. D. Furnell) in the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, claimed that his client, Henry Tollemache Edwards…

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Drove Stolen Car to Gundagai Dance Two Men Sentenced For Theft

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 3

IN the Wagga Quarter Sessions last Monday, a soldier and a labourer received sentences of hard labour on…

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Car Theft Legislation

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 3

Hope that N.S.W. would follow Victoria by introducing legislation making car thefts difficult has been dashed temporarily, says the…

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The Motor World Car Theft Legislation

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 2

Hope that NSW Would follow Victoria by introducing legislation making car thefts difficult has been dashed temporarily…

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Ex-Kapooka man on theft charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 3

A former member of the Kapooka QuarterMasters' Stores staff yesterday pleaded not guilty at the Wagga Quarter Sessions to stealing 20 blankets from the stores…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 2

"Your obligations to learn to protect your country are higher than any other obligation you may have to render assistance to any broken-down truck," Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., yesterday told one of the three youths summonsed for. failure to give National Service…

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No Bill Filed in Cootamundra Murder Charge

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 3

It was announced this week that the Attorney General had refused to file a bill in the case in which two…

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