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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,311 stories in Riverina's papers · page 10 of 66

N.S.W. Bank Head to Retire Prominent in Important Court Decision

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 2

Advice has been received that the General Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Mr. S. J. Gandon, is…

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Went to Court Without Coat. S.M Gave Permission For Man to Appear

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 8

The courts always take a dim view of anyone who leaves a hotelkeeper high and dry by not paying for board…

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Extra Gaol for Man

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: A 21-year-old shearer who broke a good behavior bond by illegally using a car was…

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New evidence in murder case

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: New evidence on the John Bryan Kerr murder case is now being investigated by the Crown…

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Woman Held As Sequel Td Double Murder

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1954 · page 1

DUEREN, Friday (AAP): Sonia Winnickes, 32-years-old German friend of Ronald John Chesney, has been…

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Burglary at a Country Home Intruders Get In Through Bathroom

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 5

With thousands of homes vacant because residents were in Wagga seeing the Queen on Saturday week last,…

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Mysterious Melb. Murder Invalid Shot

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday — Police inquiries into the murder of a 27-year-old invalid pensioner in Stephenson street, South…

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South-west Mail Murder Victim Alive at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — Only 12 South-West Mall passengers had come forward in response to a police appeal for assistance in…

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Double Murder Development Woman Claims Body Of SUSPECT

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1

COLOGNE, Sunday (A.A.P.): An attractive German woman yesterday paid her second coH to Cologne mortuary to claim the body of Ronald Ghesney, who committed suicide in a wood near Cologne latt week…

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Shearers Could Refuse to Handle Full Bellied Sheep Interesting Case At Yass Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 7

In giving his decisions in cross actions between a Bookham grazier and a shearer, the S.M., Mr. Wm. Finlay, held that shearers at “Wattle Vale,” Bookham, in October, 1952, were entitled to refuse to shear full bellied sheep…

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Burglar Gets 7 Years' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: One of two armed burglars who forced a shop door and assaulted an elderly couple…

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No light on S.W. Mail murder yet

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Scores of people have now been interviewed by detectives in a bid to solve the mystery…

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Murder most foul on South West Mail Hanwood Resident Done to Death

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 2

The community was shocked by the news of the brutal murder on the Sydney-bound south west mail train early on…

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Police Guard for McCARTHY Also Good Citizenship Medal

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday — Senator Joseph McCarthy arrived in Philadelphia yesterday to receive a good citizenship medal…

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Gaol Escapee Recaptured

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — Police last night captured Bendigo Gaol escapee, Robert Henry Cox, in Green park, Darlinghurst…

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THE S.W. Mail Murder Police Inquiries at Leeton

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. — A vital new clue in the search for the murderer of Olaf Perkman, who…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 2

Stipendiary Magistrate Mr. A. V. Quiggin allowed a woman charged with vagrancy to go at large yesterday when…

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U.k. Double Murder Pinned on Dead Man

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Scotland Yard is about ready to close the Ealing double murder case and chalk up an unofficial verdict of guilty against…

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New Train Murder Clue Detectives race to Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A vital new clue in the search for the murderer of Olaf Perkman, who…

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Bendigo Gaol Escape Is Recaptured

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A 19-year-old escapee from Bendigo Gaol was recaptured today drunk and half asleep on a park bench opposite St. Vincent's…

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