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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 54 of 75

Will Appear in Gundagai Court To-morrow— Alleged Youthful Car Thieves Arrested at Jugiong

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 21 September 1953 · page 1

Three young lads will be brought before the Gundagai Court to-morrow and charged on three counts of alleged car stealing. The youth were arrested by…

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Freezing of Basic Wage by Court. Unions and Labor Propaganda Differ. (To the Editor)

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 21 September 1953 · page 3

Sir: After exhaustive evidence the Arbitration Court ruled the "status quo" as far as hours and the basic…

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Stipendiary Magistrate's Court at Lockhart

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

Stipendiary Magistrate Quiggin held his monthly court at Lockhart on Friday. Acting Police Prosecutor…

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Doyle before Magistrate

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: Reginald Aubrey Doyle today appeared before the Special Justice for Long Bay Gaol (Mr. E. J…

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2 charged over A.L.P. fund

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday : Mr. Doolan, S.M., today committed two men for trial on charges of false pretences…

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Allegedly told police booze' was responsible

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: A young timber worker allegedly told police it was "the booze" that made him…

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The Battle of Avoncourt Cross Summonses for Assault and Charge of Insulting Language

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 4

The hearing was resumed at the Leeton Court House on Friday last before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., of the charges…

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BETHUNGRA S.M. DISCHARGED Yesterday's Court Proceedings

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 3

A case in which Bethungra, Station Master, Richard Penn Symons, was charged with having had in his possessing a…

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Burglary at Coota. Store

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 3

Burglars broke into a Cootamundra mercer's shop and stole 50 pairs of trousers on Monday night. The trousers are worth…

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Allegedly admitted "hire murder" Court Told About Hammer Killing

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A man who admitted he was hired to murder brewery director Roy Allan Ferguson said when he sow Ferguson lying in bed asleep he could not go through with it, a detective…

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Bail Reduced: Theft Charges at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 2

Three Victorians allegedly involved in a robbery on August 13 at the Great Southern Motors garage appeared at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions and…

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Vic Murder Hunt Intensifies

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Detectives have intensified their search for the murderer of 14-year-old Shirley Collins, whose battered body was found in a private drive on Marine Highway, Mf. Martha, seven days ago…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 2

Two New Australian seamen were each sentenced at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions to three months' imprisonment on counts of stealing. They are Ragner Lie, 27 and Sverre Nilson, 22, both…

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Court Reserves Decision on Pilot's Claims

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Full High Court today reserved its decision on an application by the Air Pilots'…

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Sentenced for Breaking and Entering and Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 2

Arthur George Hillman pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering and stealing a bottle of rum valued at £1/5/, at the Victoria…

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Burglary at Cootamundra Store

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 3

Burglars broke into a Cootamundra mercer’s shop and stole 50 pairs of trousers on Monday night…

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Magistrate’s Warning To South Gundagai Families Police Will Act If Squabbles Continue Neighbours Air Differences In Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 1

The story of family squabbles and continual bickering of neighbours was told in the Gundagai Court this week, when two South Gundagai families vented their differences before Magistrate O. J. Lake. The outcome of the matter…

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Magistrate’s Terse Remark to Defendant

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 1

During the hearing of a court case at Gundagai last Tuesday, Magistrate C. J. Lake stopped proceedings…

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'Cave Monster' Admits 1950 Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 2

INNSBRUCK, Wednesday (AAP): Guido Zingerle, known as the "Cave Monster of the Tyrol," confessed in…

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Story of alleged threat before murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: A woman whose husband was bartered to death had told police that a man had told her on the telephone "he won't start a new brewery, even if it takes a bullet to stop him," Brisbane Court was told today…

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