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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 62 of 75

Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1953 · page 4

A man who was fined in the Petty Sessions Court on Tuesday for driving under the influence, appeared yesterday for violating a bond given him on a similar charge…

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£5000 Court Award at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1953 · page 1

A young Wagga man who is still receiving treatment for injuries he received in a street accident in 1951 was yesterday awarded £5000 damages by a Supreme Court jury…

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Verdict of £158 for Tumut Contractor Gundagai District Court Matter

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 October 1953 · page 5

In the local District Court matter, in which John Henrick a well known Tumut contractor, sued the garage and…

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Orchardist charged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Well known orchid grower Sydney Arthur Shead, appeared in Central Court today on two…

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Thallium in wine police allege

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Police alleged in Lidcombe Court today that a bus driver put thallium in a bottle of wine and gave it to another man to drink, with intent…

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Tumut Residents in Court Action Claim Over Motor Car Engine

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 2

In the Gundagai District Court this week Ilia Honor Judge Brennan pleaded at an action brought by John Henrick against…

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8 Unions' Fight on C.o.l. Challenge to Arbitration Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Eight unions today strove [?] preserve cost-of-living adjustments for some workers, by [?] lenging the Arbitration Court's power to alter 86 awards. In one Court sitting, three Judges were told it was unc[?]…

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Gundagai Police Charge Youth with Car Theft

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 1

Late on Thursday afternoon, the Gundagai police arrested an 18 year old youth and charged him with the…

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Vain Suicide Attempt; Man Gaoled Today's Court

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 2

A young Cootemundra m[?] was this morning sentenced to seven days' hard labor when he was convicted of a charge of having attempted to commit suicide last Thursday night…

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Police at Bush Fires. Not Expected to Take Control

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 1

Police cannot take control of a fire which is being directed by a bush fire captain. The chairman of the Bush…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 26th OCTOBER (Before Mr. K. Inglis, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 2

Reginald Thompson (36) was charged with being found drunk in East Street. Sergeant Mongan said that…

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Court Told Reasons for Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: Clandestine love and monetary gain were motives for a Brisbane murder, Brisbane Criminal Court was told today…

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Fined for Stealing Fruit

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 2

Thomas Charles White, of Euroley, was charged at the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., with…

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Man charged at Coota

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 2

A Cootamundra man [?] remanded to appear in [?] on December 7 on a charge having in his possession [?]…

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Turpin on Assault Charge Negress's Allegations

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday — British middleweight boxing champion, Randolph Turpin, former world title holder, was…

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Coota. Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 2

Mr. W. Finlay, S.M., at yesterday's Cootamundra Court of Petty Sessions, imposed a fine of £15 on a man…

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Defamation Claim at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 2

A panel beater denied in the District Court in Wagga yesterday that he used defamatory words to a Turvey Park showman at the Industrial Engineering Works…

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3 on Charge of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 November 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Murdered brewery director, Roy Allen Ferguson's wife and another man had embraced in a police station room before making…

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Salvage Claim in Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 November 1953 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday: It was alleged in the Admiralty Court today that the Greek words for "without assistance"…

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Minor cases at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 November 1953 · page 4

In the Court of Perry Sessions yesterday police lost a case against a man who they claimed drove a car whilst a passenger was sitting in a dangerous…

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