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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,311 stories in Riverina's papers · page 12 of 66

£1500 damages for theft of man's wife

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon. A husband was awarded £1500 damages against a man who had stolen his wife, by a…

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Man Remanded on Perkman Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon. A 28-year-old laborer was remanded without ball in Central Court today on a charge…

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Counter charges of assault After Disturbance at Cannery and Wattle Hill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 3

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

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Georgetown police stand by at match

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 8

GEORGETOWN, Monday (AAP): A police riot squad will stand by and police strength will be doubled…

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Cootamundra Court Department of National Service

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 2

Kenneth Raymond Turner of "The Grove" c/- L. M. Kingston, Cootamundra was granted deferment of National Service…

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Leeton Court of Petty Sessions Offensive Behaviour

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday last before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., Samuel Stanley Southgate was charged…

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Woman's Claim in Court Husband set her on fire

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A woman told the Divorce Court today that her husband had sprayed her with methylated spirits and set fire to her…

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Theft of Tools Owned by Ganmain Man

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 6

Tools and equipment, the propert of John Francis Murphy, a tank sinker, of Ganmain, were stolen from…

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Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 2

A man who has been married 13 months, and whose wife is at present in Sydney waiting the arrival…

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Betting by juveniles: police warning

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

People under 21 are not allowed to bet at a race, dog or trotting meeting, Wagga police laid yesterday. One officer said that the police had experienced…

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Betting by Juveniles; Warning by Police

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

People under 21 are not allowed to bet at a race, dog, or trotting meeting, Wagga police said yesterday…

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Stole Gun Worth £120 Man fined at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 2

The gun a man had stolen from a brake van of a train had been worth more than £120, said the owner in the Petty Sessions Court yesterday…

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Security Stepped Up: Shooting of Five Members in U.S. CONGRESS Puerto Ricans may be on murder charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: (A.A.P.): Security precautions are being stepped up throughout the United States following the shooting yesterday of five Congressmen in the House of Representatives by Puerto Rican Nationalist elements…

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Police Recover Part of Car

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 March 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Part of the motor car belonging to the late Dr. Joseph Blank was recovered from an underwater…

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Theft of Wire

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Taking advantage of the Melbourne City Council's picnic yesterday, thieves cut down…

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Magistrate Says Young Man Guilty of Negligence. Sequel to Accident On Willow Park

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 2

A collision between two motor cycles, involving two riders and two pillion riders, occurred at Willow Park on…

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Coolamon Court (Before Mr. Quiggan. S.m.) Betting Cases

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 7

At the February Court of Petty Sessions, C. Davis, D. Charter and J. Loutitt, charged with S.P. betting…

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Traffic Cases Heard in Junee Court. Fines Imposed for Minor Offences

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 3

Constable Carl Hermes had three traffic cases in the Junee Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when the…

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Man Complained in Court of Petty Sessions That Term "Bludger" Insulting to Him

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 8

THROUGHOUT THE PAST FEW YEARS THE NAME OF JOHN DOYLE HAS BECOME EXCEPTIONALLY WELL KNOWN IN THE WANTABAD GERY AREA, AND SO MUCH SO THAT THE…

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Man Charged with Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — A man arrested at suntherland early this morning was charged on a number of stealing counts…

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