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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,311 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 66

Early Arrest Is Expected in Case of Stealing £20

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 8

Police expect to make an early arrest in a nearby town for a man who is wanted to answer charges of stealing in…

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Accused Conducts Own Case in South Gundagai Assault Charge

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

One of two men accused of assaulting and robbing South Gundagai publican, Henry A. Attwood, is conducting his own case at the trial which began in the Gundagai Quarter Session this morning…

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Police clean-up in Puerto Rico

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

SAN JUAN, (Puerto Rico) Sunday (A.A.P.): Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Pedro Campos was arrested yesterday during the seizure of 37 "dangerous"…

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Intruder Sought 40 police search big store

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: More than 40 police with drawn revolvers were Marching Anthony Hordern's…

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Thieves Made Tea While Police Searched Escape After Tripping Alarm in Anthony Horderns

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — Burglars who broke into a city store during the week-end escaped from 100 armed police today into an adjoining store. While police searched Anthony Hordern's…

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Allegations of Police Bashings

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday — Premier Cahill announced todays that an Immediate public inquiry, presided over by a Judge, would be…

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Murder Threat Alleged in Hearing of Poison Case

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: A man charged with attempting to murder him had threatened to "cut his throat, put the razor in hit hand and make it look like…

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Police Hunt for Hoodlums: Alleged Rape

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Police today conducted an intensive hunt for four hoodlums alleged to have raped a…

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Three Charged with Rape

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — Detectives arrested three youths early this morning and charged them with having raped a…

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Government charged over pay increases

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Senator W. P. Ashley claimed today that the Federal Government had increased the salaries of…

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Women's Suicide Faced Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

HOLLYWOOD Wednesday — Mrs, Diane Wells, accused, with a negro jazz drummer, of the murder of her miner millionaire…

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Allegation of Police Bashing

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday — Eight police officers commenced leave yesterday on the direction of the police commissioner (Mr. C. J…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr. A. V. Quiggin) in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday fined a waiter £10 for stealing a £5 note. Mr. Quiggin remanded the…

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Contempt of Court by "Telegraph" "1

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — The "Daily 'Telegraph" and its acting editor, James King Watson, were yesterday fined £250 and…

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Police Called to Fight on Train Mu Hut, But Wife Escaped Injury

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 7

Police were called to an alleged brawl between a man and his wife on a train at Goulburn on Saturday…

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The South Gundagai Assault Charge Two Men Given Long Gaol Sentences

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 6

A criminal trial which aroused town and district interest, and which lasted three days, concluded in the Gundagai Quarter Sessions yesterday when two men were sentenced to long gaol terms after they were found guilty of the charge of assaulting and robbing South Gundagai publican, Henry A. Attwood. The jury retired for two hours and twenty-five minutes before…

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Adelong Man Charged

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

This week a well known Adelong business man and sportsman was arrested and charged with stealing. He was later…

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Four charged with rape

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Four teenage youths have been arrested and charged with raping a 19-year-old girl in Centennial Park last Saturday night…

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The Missing Baby Found Woman Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday — Four-months-old Christopher Hills, who disappeared with a woman from Newcastle Hospital,…

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Man acquitted on murder charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Frederick Charles Thompson (41) laborer, Gray Street, Auburn, was acquitted on a charge of attempted murder in the…

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