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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

1,463 stories in Riverina's papers · page 69 of 74

Bingham denies Court claims

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Charles Edward Arnold Bingham today denied having received a penny of the money he said he handed to Walter Cavill from Blackmarket sales of bottled…

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Caught Selling Oranges in Junee Man Sentenced to Three Months H.L.

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 2

A man who was apprehend-ed while selling oranges to a every other council has done sentenced to three months'…

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"Like a ruthless, marauding animal" Judge Sentences Criminal for Assault on School Girl

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 1

William Charles Burney, 36, was sentenced to 14 years gaol by Mr. Justice Let Gay Brereton at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday last for assault with attempt to rape a 13 years old girl, near Whitton, in…

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Car Theft Legislation

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 4

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

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Three Africans Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 1

NAIROBI, Sunday (AAP): Three Africans were Sentenced to death at Nyeri yesterday for the murder of an…

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Police Probe Poisonings at Yass

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: A C.I.B. [?]ctive left Sydney tonight [?]vestigate the food poison[?] of 14 people at a Yass…

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Court of Petty Sessions FRIDAY, 5th DECEMBER (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.) Fined for Erecting Building Without Permission

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 8 December 1952 · page 4

Municipal Health Inspector (C. P. Lowe), for the Municipal Council v. Frederick Henry Thompson, erecting a building without approval…

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Migrant charged with murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday: Following analysis of a man's bloodstained underclothing to-day, a 28-year-old Rumanian…

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Local Manon Stealing Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 2

At the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Gordon Harold Greig, 32, of Junee road, Coolamundra, was remanded…

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Murder Conviction Appeal Fails

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The High Court today confirmed a murder conviction for which a 37-year-old Hungarian was sentenced to death at Wollongong in September, 1951…

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Judge Berne Orders Man to Leave Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Judge Berne today ordered a man to leave the Court-room during the hearing of a case in which…

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Suitably Dressed in Court Judge Berne's Comments

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 2

In view of the incident at the meeting of the Leeton Justices on Wednesday last, when Mr. R. A. Struck was…

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Court told how he held woman down

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A private inquiry agent told Divorce Court today be overpowered a doctor's…

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On murder charge Two Sailors Before Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The story of events on the night of September 24 which led to the death of a 42-year-old traveller, and subsequent murder charges against two sailors of the…

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Pensioner on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A 64-year-old war pensioner who had his shoulder blown away during the First World War appeared in the City Court this morning charged with the murder of his…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 2

A young Kapooka soldier was fined £20 at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions and ordered to repay £30 which he admitted stealing from the Kapooka Army Camp canteen. The soldier, Selvie Lidston…

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Police search for missing body

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police will tomorrow ride on horseback for 17 miles through thick bush to an attempt to…

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"A lie," shouts man on taxi-murder charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A man on trial for murder shouted, "That's a lie", from Southport Court dock today when a police witness said the man had confessed to murdering a taxi-driver. The man, Arthur Ernest…

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Q.c. Says Police Were Wrong

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police had wrongly put pressure on Mrs. Gladys Yvonne Fletcher to obtain some admission of…

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Female Police Bodyguard for the Queen

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 December 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday—A former convent school girl, now a 44-year-old woman police inspector, is expected to be…

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