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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 27 of 75

Bundaberg Traveller Disappears Man Detained by Police

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE. Friday.—Police detained a man following the disappearance of a Bundaberg traveller, Osward Arthur Price…

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At The Montreal "The Enforcer" True Story of Murder Inc

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 4

So that [?] the new Warner [?] release which stars Hump[?] Bogart. would adhere re the facts in de[?]icting…

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Man sentenced for assault on youth

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. Russell Thomas Wall, of Johnson Street, Chatevood, who had served 45 years with the…

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Man Bashed to Death Quick Police Arrest

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday: The battered body of Oswald Arthur Price, 60, salesman, of Bundaberg, was found close to the highway between Childers and…

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Court Rejects Libel Claim Against Paper

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A Supreme Court Jury today rejected a £5000 libel claim by former boxer Edward Alfred…

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Police Seek Rifle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 2

Wagga police are searching for a new Lithgow single shot rifle and two boxes of bullets which were reported stolen…

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Man, Found with Shotgun, Charged at Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A detective said in the Lunacy Court today that a solicitor, accused of insanity, had called at a Dee Why home yesterday morning carrying a double-barrelled shotgun. The gun was unloaded. The solicitor is Oliver Darcy…

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Thallium Plot Alleged: Woman Charged in City Mother and daughter victims, police say

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Police today charged a 63-year-old married woman with having administered thallium poison to two women with intent to murder them. The women are Mrs. Evelyn Lundberg, 67, and her…

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Another Thallium Case Elderly Woman Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Mrs. Carolina Grills, 63, domestic duties, of Gladesville, appeared in the Central Police Court this…

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48 people on murder charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

CLAY (West Virginia), Monday (AAP): Forty-eight grim-faced men were charged with murder…

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Forbes' Denials to Bankruptcy Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Financier John Woolcott Forbes today in the Bankruptcy Court denied that he had ever retained for his own use money of companies with which he was associated. Forbes also denied that the…

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Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 2

At yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Sessions, two Wagga men were each fined £3 for stealing four bottles of beer valued at 12/ and owned by Lloyd Webster on May 10. They are Reginald…

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Human Bites on Girl "Dracula" drama at police H.Q.

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 1

MANILA, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Baffled police and medical experts are holding an 18-yeor-old girl for further observation while they try to…

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Dead Girl Lived in Fear of Man, Court Told

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Betty Iva Leighton Jones (27), who was shot dead in a South Melbourne street on March 3, had a "great fear" of Lionel Richard Lee, a witness told the Coroner (Mr. Wade, S.M.) at the inquest today…

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Charged with Melb. murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: "I guess I am right behind the eightball My wife wouldn't mistake me. I guess I must have rubbed him out, but it's no use…

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Charged with Murder of Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Carl Gerald Perry, 43, dairy farmer, was charged at Bell ling[?] Police Court today with…

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Murder charge exhibit

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 1

THIS NOTE was found in a ring and exhibited at an inquest in Melbourne on Tuesday: It said. "Joined only in death. Betty-Lee." The case was one in which Lionel Richard Lee, 31, was charged with having murdered Betty Iva Leighton Jones. 27. Lee was committed for trial…

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Charge of Murder Withdrawn

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A murder charge against Frederica Reginald Cels, 54 King Street. St. Peter's and…

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"Coonara" Overseer for Trial Sheep Stealing Charge at Carrathool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 4

Former overseer at "Coonara" station, Carrathool, Ronald Mervyn Beardmore, was sent tor trial by Mr. K. Smith, S.M., from the Hay Court…

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30 Mile Police Chase Ms At Jugiong

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 6

Smart work by Yass and Jugiong police last week, led to the arrest of two men who were later charged with breaking entering and stealing from a house near Bowning. Mrs. L. Clayton, Two Mile…

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