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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 57 of 75

Police Request to Parents Youths and use of firearms

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 October 1953 · page 2

Wagga police yesterday requested parents to exercise greater control of youths who use or have in their possession firearms…

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Three Men Charged with Theft

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 1

Wagga police last night questioned for several hours three men whom they suspect were involved in a number of thefts along the Hume Highway between…

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Tocumwal Escapees Sentenced

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 1

Three youths who broke out of Tocumwal lockup on September 25, and were subsequently rearrested near Tarcutta, each…

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Three escapees sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 3

Three youths who broke out of Tocumwal lock-up on September 25 and were subsequently re-arrested near Tarcutta, each received prison sentences at…

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Put in Gaol and Then Forgotten

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 4

Allegheny County authorities have, according to a cable from Pittsburgh, apologised to John Gorek for putting…

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Mrs. Grills on Attempted Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Mrs. Caroline Grills (63) was charged at the Central Criminal Court today with the attempted…

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Crisis in British Guiana Volunteers, Police Are on the Alert

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 4

GEORGETOWN (British Guiana), Tues. (A.A.P.): Workers demonstrated yesterday in Georgetown, capital of the tense colony of British Guiana, as a…

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Marathon Effort in Junee Tennis Tournament Player on Court for Most of Fourteen Hours

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 1

Two marathon performances were put up by visiting players in the annual Junee District Tennis…

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Two Months' Gaol for Technical Assault

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A former New Zealand medical student sentenced in General Sessions today to two months' gaol for having technically assaulted two women whom he examined while posing as a doctor. He Is John Malcolm Cook…

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Old Offender Sentenced

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

Donald Chatier Prior (27) and Frederick Langton (20) were charged Dial on 4th October, at Yanco, they unlawfully took and used a…

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The Girlls Case Blind Thallium Victim in Court

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—Totally bind thallium victim, Mrs Eveline Lundberg (67) today was led in to the Central Criminal…

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Brutal Murder and Burial of American Kidnapped Noy Two Arrests Made; One Man on the Run

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 October 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thursday—The mystery of the Bobby Greenlees kidnap care involving the payment of £268,000 ransom, ended in heartbreak yesterday with the discovery of the child's body in a shallow…

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Small Debts Court TUESDAY, 6th OCTOBER (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.)

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

The Postmaster-General's Department v. Robert Keith Rose, claim £32/9/11, and 14/- for telephone rent and calls and costs…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, 5th OCTOBER (Before Mr. Keith Smith S.M.) Driving Whilst Under Influence

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

Reginald Thomas Lipscombe (40) was charged with driving a motor vehicle upon a public street, namely, the Leeton road, whilst being under…

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Small Debts Court Proceedings Withdrawn

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 3

The A.B.K. Furnishers summonsed 15 debtors in the Small Debts Court, Leeton on Friday for the recovery of amounts due…

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Beat Father with Crutch, Court Told

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 1

BENDIGO, Thursday: A crippled man stripped to the waist in Bendigo City Court this morning to, show marks which be claimed were caused by his son beating him with a crutch…

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Thallium Victim Gives Evidence in Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Blind thallium victim Mrs. Eveline Lundberg, 67, was led into Central Criminal Court today to give evidence in a case in which her sister-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Grills, 63, is charged with having attempted to murder her with poison…

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The Grills Trial Women Crowd Court

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday—Women again packed the General Criminal Court-.today, when Thomas Alan McDonald, of the…

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The American Kidnapping Police Doubts About Third Party

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 1

KANSAS CITY, Friday—The possibility' that the ex-convict and the woman under arrest here might have been the only…

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Few Cases at Junee Court Emphasises Good Conduct of Area

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 7

The statement made this week by Sergeant Cashmere on Junee's law-abiding nature was emphasised in the Court…

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