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Courts & crime, 1953

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U.s. Doubts Malenkov's Appeal for Peace with "Get Tough" Soviet Charged Policy

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday—United States State Department officials doubt the sincerity of Soviet Premier Malenkov's "peace" speech from the Kremlin yesterday…

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Many Matters Listed for Tomorrow’s Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

Many matters are listed for the sittings of the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions to be held to-morrow…

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Car Driver Shot During Police Chase Arrests After Big Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—A detective sergeant shot and fatally Wounded the driver of a car during a high-speed chase through…

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Rail Goods As Court Exhibit. Harden Merchant Faces Charges

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

Harden merchant, storekeeper and taxi proprietor, Louis Joseph Moses will stand his trial at the next Quarter…

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Man Dies in Hospital Fatally Shot by Police in City Chase

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A detective sergeant shot and fatally wounded the driver of a car during a high-speed chase through the streets of Drummoyne today. Several shots were fired…

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List of Junee J.'sP. WANTED. Names Required by Sergeant of Police

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

Justices of the Peace are asked to hand their names and addresses into the Junee Police Station, where [?]…

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Court of Petty Sessions TUESDAY, 3rd MARCH (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 2

Prices Commissioner v. Dixons Ply. Ltd., overcharging on wire netting. Mr. L. L. Henderson appeared for…

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Case Settled Out of Court Darbalara Grazier’s Appeal Against Jury’s Verdict

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 1

WHEN a Supreme Court Jury at Wagga last year, awarded Darbalara grazier, Leonard C. Bower, £1,000 damages, for the loss of an arm, Bower appealed against the verdict, and the matter was listed for hearing in Sydney last week…

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Deterring Car Theft

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 4

Motorists hope the State Government will at last get to grips with the car thief problem, said N.R.M.A…

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Tamworth man guilty of murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Forty-two-year-old Tamworth farm laborer, Robert Edward Ryan, was today sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Brereton on a charge of murder…

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New Judges for Supreme Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—The State Cabinet is almost certain to appoint three additional judges to the Supreme Court…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Yesterday)

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 2

Before Mr. W. Finlay SM. Sgt A. Grelg Police Prosecutor, Stole Underclothes Stanley Lawrence Collins, 18,…

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Counsel Blames Police for Shooting Man Dead

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A man would not have been shot dead yesterday had police surrounded a car while it was parked and not chased it,…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2

Mr. A. V. Quiggin, S.M. yesterday fined 58-year-old Wagga contractor, Peter James Thompson, £10 with costs at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions for having on March 14 used a shed in Fox Lane for the purposes of betting…

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Charged Over Priests Car Two gaoled by S.M. at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2

Two men with a long list of convictions for larceny were cent to gaol by Mr. A. V. Quiggin at yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Session for having illegally used a car on March 9 without…

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Road Deaths Worry to Police Chief

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Some motorists were wantonly indifferent to other people's lives, the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Delaney) said today. Mr. Delaney was addressing…

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Woman Acquitted: Court Told of "Mercy Killing"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A Central Criminal Court jury today acquitted a woman of the murder of her sister's imbecile baby after a…

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15 years' gaol for "beast"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A young Sydney criminal sentenced to 15 years gaol by Mr. Justice Barry…

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Magistrate Orders Man to Put on Coat

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 1

A man sitting in the public gallery of the Gundagai Court last Tuesday was ordered by Magistrate Finlay…

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Man Collapses: Guilty of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A 63-year-old man collapsed in the dock at Central Criminal Court today when sentenced…

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