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Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 51 of 75

Road Traffic Offenders Dealt With at Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 6

The following defendants were convicted and fined at the Leeton Court, of Petty Sessions on Friday lost before Mr. K. W. Smith,…

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Unusual Case at Court Farmer Locked Gates Against Agent

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 2

A most unusual case way before the last meeting of the Laetour Police Court. Gilbert Seal proceeded…

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Gundagai Court Adjourned Until To-morrow

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 1

The sittings of the Gundagai Quarter Sessions and District Court which was to commence to-day, has been…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Today) Driving Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 2

Before Mr. W. Finlay, SM. Dennis charles Edward Kelleher, 52, of 217 Hovell street, was fined £15 on a charge of driving…

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Boy's dog aroused passions Cross Charges of Assault

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 4

At Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., Frederick Lionel Trefley Miller…

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Fair Rents Board Application for Variation of Magistrate's Order

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 4

Before the Fair Rents Board at Leeton on Friday last, presided over by Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., Michael Joseph Gleeson made…

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Remanded to Penrith on Theft Charges

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 2

An 18-year-old youth charged with stealing goods and money worth £817/15/ was remanded from Wagga…

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Men charged with wounding Vic. woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: John Eric Twist, 28, of Park Street, North Carlton, and Reginald Arthur Keith…

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Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 2

A Forbes shearer who pleaded guilty at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions to a charge of driving under the influence was fined £15 by Mr. A. V. Qulggin, S.M…

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Letter may be clue to murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An anonymous letter which police have received may be a clue to the killer of Robert…

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Adelong Man Charged at Wagga £460 Claimed to Be Misappropriated

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 3

A former Adelong businessman appeared in Wagga Court, of Petty Sessions yesterday to face a charge that he had fraudulently misappropriated £460/12/9 belonging to John B. Crago, of Wagga…

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Sentenced to Gaol, But Wins Freedom on Appeal Crown Offers No Evidence

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 3

In the Gundagai Quarter Sessions last Tuesday, a man who previously pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally…

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Five years' gaol for shooting

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A man who shot a woman, the one for whom he left his wife, received five years' penal…

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Court Packed for Lulham Case

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY. Thursday—A huge crown today jostled to get into Central Court to hear the Bobby Lulham poisoning case, at…

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Need for More Court Days at Gundagai—special Court Sitting Next Month

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 5

So many cases were listed for hearing in the Gundagai Quarter Sessions this week that all matters could not…

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Unusual Case at Court Farmer Locked Gates Against Agent

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 6

A most unusual case was before the last meeting of the Leeton Police Court. Gilbert Seal proceeded…

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Dress Parade in Gundagai Court Appeals by Two New Australians Fail

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 3

It was somewhat akin to a mannequin parade in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday, when hats and hat boxes littered the benches and the floor of the stately portals of Justice, and some of the chapeaus were tried on by…

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Lulham Case Sensations Court Told About Affair with His Mother-in-law

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mrs. Veronica Mabel Monty (45) had admitted having had intercourse with her son-in-law Bobby Lulham, a detective told Central Police Court today. The detective, Sgt. George…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, 7th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.) Fishing in Closed Waters

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 3

John Bamblett (Leeton) was charged with attempting to take fish from closed waters at Yanko Weir. Plea guilty…

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Head, Hands Cut Off Court Told of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The story of how a hacksaw was allegedly used to cut the head and hands from the body of a man on a river bank at night was…

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