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Courts & crime, 1953

1,481 stories in Riverina's papers · page 64 of 75

Potato Board Defied at Markets Police Called to Quieten Irate Producers

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 November 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — Police were called to the City Markets today to control a crowd of angry growers and shopkeepers who supported a market gardener who defied a Potato Board inspector to…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Before Mr. K. Inglis, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 9 November 1953 · page 2

Ronald Dawson, Clifford George Osmond, and Harold Edward Hunt were charged with drunkenness, but did not appear…

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Brisbane Murder Case Man's Denial on Hammer

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: Albert Eric Murphy denied in the Criminal Court to-day that he had entered Roy Allan Ferguson's house by the front door and…

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Mossadeq angry in Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 1

TEHERAN, Mon. (AAP): Ex-Persian Premier Mossadeq banged a table with his fist and told a court-martial…

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Police Fire a Shot to Warn Two Youths

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday: Police fired a warning shot over the heads of two youths who had attempted to escape from an allegedly stolen utility in Lygon…

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Allies Reject Trieste Probe "Police action was justified"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 1

TRIESTE, Monday (A.A.P.): Allied authorities today rejected the demand by Italian Prime Minister Pella for an official inquiry into the Trieste riots, in which six demonstrators died…

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Murder trial: denies he was offered hotel

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 November 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday: One of three people charged with the murder of brewery director, Roy Allan Ferguson, today denied in the Criminal Court that he had been offered a hotel if he co-operated with the plans of the other two…

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Items From Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 November 1953 · page 2

Two Wagga publicans were each fined £5 with 12/ costs, at yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions for serving liquor on a Sunday. Both publicans were charged with offences which occurred…

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Full Court Changes Liquor Case Decision

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 November 1953 · page 6

MELBOURNE Tues.: The 500-year-old doctrine that coercion is presumed if a wife commits an offence in her…

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Man on murder charge says police told lies

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday: A man jointly charged with the murder of a brewery director, today alleged that police had committed perjury against…

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Romance, Started in Albury, Leads to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The sequel to a romance which began in Albury over three years ago was heard in the Brunswick Court today, when a 29-year-old salesman was sent to prison for 12 months…

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Police seek keys

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1953 · page 1

Wagga police are endeavoring to locate a brown leather wallet of keys containing four keys. Two of the keys…

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Counsel's talk of Old. "secret police"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thurs.: Strange things were read about secret police operations in other countries, but the same stage was being approached in Queensland…

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Fined for S.P. betting after police raid

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 2

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., William Joseph Coruett was…

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Shirley Collins Murder Vital Lead for Police

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday: Police investigating the Shirley Collins murder have received information which they believe will prove vital in their search for…

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Court refutes claim

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: The Arbitration Court today refuted a statement by the A.C.T.U. secretary (Mr. R…

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Denies murder of family

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 1

PARIS, Sunday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Gaston Dominici, 77-year-old farmer, angrily denied guilt when confronted last night with his two sons, who had accused…

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Court of Petty Sessions MONDAY, 16th NOVEMBER (Before Mr. A. M. Chandler, J.P., and Chamber Magistrate)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 2

Cornelius Delaney was charged with being found drunk in Whitton Street. Constable Worth stated that…

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The Digne Family Murder Alleged Confession

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Monday — Gaston Dominici, 77 will be charged at Digne Court today with the murder of the British food expert,…

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Life Term for Three in Qld. Murder

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday: Mrs. Sylvia Joyce Ferguson, her lover, and another man have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of brewery…

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