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Courts & crime, 1953

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Fatal Crash: Youth Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: Police today charged an 18-year-old youth with manslaughter following a car smash at…

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Murder charge in Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday: When the hearing of a charge of murdering Zora Kusic, 29, single, at her shack at…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 5th JANUARY (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.) Theft from Grong Grong Store

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 4

Roy Holmes (39) was charged with stealing at Grong Grong on 21st December one wallet, 10 rings, one set of gold armbands, four gold tie pins…

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Piecework. No Basic Wage —Gaol for Absentees Work in the Workers’ Paradise—

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 10

Soviet Russia does not know of any “free” contract .of employment, nor of any legal relations usually connected with…

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Baby Case Settled Out of Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A suit by a young Parramatta couple for the recovery of their five-months-old daughter from a Quirindi couple was settled on undisclosed terms in the Supreme Court today…

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Court of Petty Sessions Failed to Pay for Accommodation

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3

Gertrude Olive Furlong v. Gordon Nicholls (Griffith), failing to pay for meals and accommodation at licensed premises…

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Ardlethan Theft

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 7

Thieves entered the premises of Mr. E. T. Frost on New Year’s Eve and stole a quantity of money…

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On murder charge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. A man on leave from a mental institution bashed his wife to death with a sledge hammer…

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Leeton Petty Sessions Youths Convicted of Stealing

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 3

At the Leeton Court or Petty Sessions on Monday, before Messrs W. Cox and T. E. Wright, J's.P., Thomas Lee aged 24, of no…

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How to Court Death Hints to Motorists

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 2

Drink, drive, die for the bottle warps judgment, slows down reflexes, and awareness of danger. Step on the gas; disregard…

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Broken Hill Clean-up No Order Yet Given to Local Police

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 1

BROKEN HILL, Friday—Local police said today that they had received, no direction to tighten-up on gambling and…

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Police Release Suspect: Murder of Young Girl

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Police have released a man with a "Hitler" moustache whom they last night questioned at the C.I.B. concerning the…

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Gaol preferred to rates by shire resident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 3

"We will not pay rates—we will go to gaol first", threatened a ratepayer in letter to the Mitchell Shire Council meeting yesterday. The ratepayer. Mrs. J…

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Test Cricketer on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 4

COLOMBO, Friday (AAP): Ceylon Test cricketer Mahadeva Sathasivam will stand trial on March 20 on a charge…

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£2000 Reward in Hacker Murder Case

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: The N.S.W. Government has offered a £2000 reward for information leading to the…

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Sentenced for Murder of Her Husband

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 1

TOKYO, Sunday (A.A.P.): Dorothy Krueger Smith, daughter of a United States General of the Second World…

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Kidnapped Train: Men Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Prague radio announced last night that one man bad been sentenced to death, another to life imprisonment, and others to from five to 25 years gaol following…

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England's Most Lop-sided Murder Trial

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 4

It was a One summer morning when Colin Campbell crossed the ferry at Ballachulish and rode through the wood at Lettermore, but he rode with…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Monday Last)

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 2

Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M. Stealing Charge Gordon Greig was remanded until January 19 on a charge of…

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Court of Petty Sessions FRIDAY, 9th JANUARY (Before Mr. F. J. Hale. J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 2

Patrick Phillips (44) was charged with being found drunk in Audley Street. It was stated that defendant was…

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