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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 75

The Motor World Car Drivers and the Police

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

Law-abiding motorists demand State Government action to protect them, and the rest of the community, from the reck…

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Volunteers to Aid Road Safety. N.R.M.A. Plan to Help Ae Police

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

If the proposed scheme of voluntary road wardens operates successfully it will give I sadly-needed assistance to the…

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£1000 theft from van

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Cash and cheques worth more than £1000 was stolen from a tobacconist's delivery van in…

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Big Theft From Van

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday—Cash and cheques worth more than £1000 was stolen from a tobacconist's delivery van in North…

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Soldier charged at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

A Kapooka soldier's allegations that a policeman had kicked another soldier led to his arrest for offensive behavior, the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions was told yesterday…

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Assault in Cell "Not Unusual"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A claim by a woman prisoner that a police constable had criminally assaulted her in a…

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Three Years' Hard Labor Szolomicki Sentenced

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

Romuld Szolomicki was this afternoon sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with hard labor,…

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Murder Trial Jury Discharged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A murder trial jury was discharged by Mr. Justice McClemens at Central Criminal…

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Fourth body in "Murder House"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Police today found the body of a fourth woman under the floorboards of a West London house where three corpses were discovered yesterday in a…

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Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

Two Wagga department stores were fined at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions for overcharging for wire-netting. The firms are Hardy's…

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Malan will not accept court's decision

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

CAPETOWN, Wed. (AAP): Prime Minister Daniel Milan announced here that his Nationalist Party will not…

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Three years' gaol

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A former company director, Keith David Eric Barr, 38. of Hastings Road, Warrawee…

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'Murder House' 3 Bodies identified

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.): Police have established the probable identity of three of four women's…

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Escape From Police

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

After Sgt. A. E. Gould had pursued him on the police motor cycle, and arrested him, with the aid of Wagga Police Officers, Walter S. Brown was…

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Police Officer Farewelled at Urana

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 3

A large number of Urana and district citizens tendered Constable Chas. M. Browne a social evening at Urana on the eve of his departure for Howlong, to which station Constable…

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Police Lecture to Children. Catapults Included In Warnings

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 3

Junee police have gives lectures at the three Junee schools and plan to go out to the country schools for the…

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Three charged with theft of yacht

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Two young men and a girl were today committed for trial by Mr. Austin, S.M., for the…

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Committed on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: George Rudston Brown, 66, retired electrician, was committed for trial today on a charge of…

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Human Remains Dug Up in "Murder House"

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Human remains—possibly those of a fifth victim of the Nottinghill murderer—were found by police digging in the garden of the "Murder House" yesterday. The remains were found…

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Mau Terrorists Murder Home Guards Nairobi (Kenya)

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 4

Mau Mau terrorist, riding in a taxi, shot dead three Kikuyu home guards and then mutilated the bodies at Kiambaa,…

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