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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,311 stories in Riverina's papers · page 20 of 66

Man From the Rock Charged at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 2

Police late Thursday night arrested a young man in Joseph Gray's skin store at The Rock…

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Ill-treated P.O.W.s: 40 years' gaol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 1

FORT LEAVENWORTH (Kansas), Friday (AAP): A Court Martial today sentenced Private Rothwell…

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Former Secretary Arrested Charged with Stealing

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

Junee police on Saturday afternoon last arrested a man and charged him with stealing…

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Stipendiary Magistrate's Court Held at Lockhart

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

Stipendiary Magistrate MacDonad presided over a court at Lockhart last week in lieu of Mr. Quiggin, the…

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Assault "might have caused death"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: A 74-year-old woman "might have dropped dead" when a man assaulted her, the police…

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Attacks on police deplored

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: Attacks on the Police Department by certain sections of the Sydney Press must if…

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Yesterday's Court of Petty Sessions Failed to Pay Award Wages

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

James (Giovanni) Piva and Bill (Bortolo) Guadagnini, Parker street, Cootamundra, pleaded guilty to a charge of having…

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Eviction order refused by Magistrate

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 4

Mr. A. S. McDonald S.M. declined: to make an order to evict a Wagga watchmaker from premises in Fitzmaurice Street at the Wagga Court of Petty…

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Man's wife arrested for murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Tuesday: Detectives investigating the murder at his home in Bendigo of 29-year-old quarry…

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Police attack on Press

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police delegates at the N.S.W. Police Association's annual conference today strongly protested against Press reports of yesterday's…

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Stir in House over police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Premier (Mr. Cahill) was asked in the Legislative Assembly today whether he went to the 32nd annual conference of the…

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Want Police Association in Labor Council

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A delegate at the Police Association Conference moved today that the association should…

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Scientist's Work to Continue. Report An Echo of Recent Train Murder

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 6

Despite the recent tragic death of Research Officer, C',. Perkman, of C.S.I.R.O. Research Station at Griffith…

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Former Junee Secretary Arrested and Charged with Stealing

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 10

Junee police on Saturday afternoon last arrested a man and charged with with stealing. The man is a former…

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Attractive Girl Arrested Charged With Breaking and Entering

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—Detectives last night arrested an attractive 15-year-old girl and charged her with breaking into…

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Police Join Labor Cl

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Police Association annual conference today decided to affiliate with the N.S.W. Labor Council…

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Attacks on Police Deplored

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 4

Attacks on the Police Department by certain sections of the Sydney Press must If continued, “destroy the…

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Police Join Labor Council

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

The Police Association annual conference yesterday decided to affiliate with the N.S.W. Labor Council…

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Police Food "Unfit to Eat"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed: Policemen had been siren fool unfit ta be eaten, a delegate told the Police Association annual…

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Ruxton seemed all right woman tells Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A nursing sister who said she had seen David Srudley-Ruxton shortly before his arrest told the Royal Commission today that he seemed "to be perfectly all right" to her…

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