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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 14 of 75

Assault on Girl Man gaoled at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 2

"It is quite obvious from your past record that you have a tendency to commit this tort of offence," Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., told 43-year-old laborer, Clarence McDonald, in the Wagga…

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Wagga Police Join Search

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 3

Wagga police have been alerted to watch for a young prisoner, who escaped yesterday…

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Murder Charge Soldier: "I Spied on Reds"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 2

SEOUL, Tuesday (A.A.P-Reuter): A private charged with the murder of an American corporal on a Korean…

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Items from Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 3

In the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M., imposed a heavy fine of £20 with costs on John Keith Mousdale, R.A.A.F., Forest Hill, for having travelled oh his motor-cycle at a speed dangerous to the public in Edward Street East on September 27…

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Men Tried to Run Down Sgt. at Holbrook, Court Told

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 2

In an attempt to avoid arrest at Holbrook on Monday, two men, allegedly in a stolen car, tried to run down a police sergeant who had…

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Forbes tells Court of £80,000 in cheques to bookmaker

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: John Woolcott Forbes said in the Bankruptcy Court today that a bookmaker had received cash cheques for about £80,000 through one of Forbes' companies. He told the Judge in…

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Man Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A 24-year-old laborer, Kenneth John Brazier, of Liverpool Street, Paddington, who fired…

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6 months' gaol for vagrancy

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 2

Richard Thomas Colgan, 59, laborer, who had already served a total of two years in gaol for vagrancy since 1949, was sentenced at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions to six…

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Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 3

A Wagga man and two girls pleaded guilty yesterday at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions to having ridden their bicycles without lights. John R. Carnsew, Inverary…

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Court of Petty Sessions TUESDAY, 10th MARCH (Before Mr. P. J. Hale, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 3

Leslie Noble (47, no fixed place of abode) was charged with being found drunk in East Street. Plea guilty…

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Soldier on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: City Coroner, (Mr. E. J. Forrest) today committed Private Lloyd Alexander Llewellan…

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Traffic Cases at Coolamon Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 3

The Following traffic cases were heard before Mr. A. V. Quigley, S.M. at the Coolamon Court…

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Two Instances in Junee Where Police Return Valuable Property

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 1

TWO STORIES EMANATING FROM THE JUNEE POLICE STATION THIS WEEK INDICATE THE VALUA[?] WORK OF [?] DEPARTMENT IN THE FIELD OF "LOST, STOLEN OR ST[?]AVED"…

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Fined for Assault

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 2

Stuart Nell Watson. 27, Wagga Hotel, was fined a total of £4 at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions…

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Two years for car stealing

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.: A former policeman and two others were sentenced to gaol by the Fall Court of Criminal…

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Labor M.p. Charged with Contempt of House

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.: The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Cameron) today charged Mr. Curtin (Lab., N.S.W.) with contempt of…

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Pilots' Claim to Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday: A High Court writ today claimed that a recent air navigation order made aircraft flights…

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"Deliberate, Brutal Aggression" U.k. Protest on Murder of Fliers by Reds

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): The British High Commissioner in Berlin (Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick) today protested to Soviet authorities in Germany against the shooting down of a British…

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International murder

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 2

Western hopes at a change in Soviet policy at the election of a new leader have received a severe jolt by the shooting down within a few days of each other an American and a British…

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Neville to Be Charged? Dalray Improves

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday—A high police official has recommended that a charge be laid against Mr. C. Neville, owner of…

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