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Courts & crime, 1954

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Traffic Superintendent Saw Many Shocking Road Safety Breaches Police Officer, Who Visited Gundagai, Reports on Country Tour

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 1

The Traffic Superintendent (Mr. H. E. Snowden) who recently visited Gundagai, said last week that on a 2000 mile tour of this State he had seen many shocking breaches of traffic safety requirements…

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Charged With Stealing Tarpaulin From Truck

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 4

At Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., Frederick Lionel Miller was…

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Man charged with assault on models

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Three young Sydney models had been ravished and subjected to unrestrained terrorism by a 26-yeors-old commercial artist, it was alleged in Central Criminal Court today…

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Charged with murder of child

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Monday: Charged with having murdered six-year-old Pamela Dale Walton at Newmarket…

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Youth Charged with Yarra Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday—A youth was charged at the City Watchhouse yesterday afternoon with the murder of a man whose…

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Broke Into Leeton Shops Accused Sentenced to Six Months Gaol

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

At the Narrandera Quarter Sessions last week, before His Honor Judge J. Bruxner, Kenneth Claude Brown was…

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Theft of £44,448 is alleged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

PERTH, Mon.: The amount alleged by police to have been stolen by an Australian National Airways accountant…

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Two young girls before Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

DARWIN, Monday: Two girls, aged 15 and 16, who were Induced to act as call girls, were charged before…

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Many Traffic Offenders Cautioned by police on Saturday morning

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

Police on duty during Saturday morning in the main street and adjacent side streets of Leeton detected a considerable…

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Committed for Trial After Accident Jindalee Man in Court Yesterday

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

Eric Francis McKenzie (28), laborer, of Jindalee, via, Cootamundra, was committed for trial at the July sittings of the Quarter Sessions in Cootamundra on a charge of having, while under the…

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Denies axe murder of husband

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 1

BENDIGO. Tues.: Charted with having murdered her husband with an axe, 31-years-old Mrs. Dorothy Beck…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 2

Four Wagga transport owners were fined at yesterday's Petty Sessions for failing to pay road tax when operating in competition: with the Railways…

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Girl charged with murder of mother

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Wed. (A.A.P.-Reuter): A girl aged 16 was charged in Christchurch this morning with the…

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Wants to be charged with murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A South African seaman, who allegedly stabbed an English sailor, told…

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£44,448 Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

PERTH, Wed.: Redmond Hurley O'Dwyer, 37, chirred with the theft or £44,448/13/6 from…

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Girl Charged with Matricide

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thurs. (AAP-Reuter)—A girl aged 16 was charged in Christchurch yesterday morning with the…

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Well Known Jockey Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Prominent Sydney jockey, Arthur Clement Podmore, appeared in Central Court today on two…

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Interruption at Bendigo murder trial

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 3

BENDIGO, Wed.: During the hearing of the Beck murder trial in Bendigo Supreme Court this morning, the…

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Crashed Into Culvert at Jugiong Stranger Charged on Two Counts

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

A motorist who crashed his car into a culvert near the Jugiong store one night recently, and who was subsequently…

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Magistrate Would Report Pensioner “We Don’t Pay Taxes For Pensioners To Booze”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 6

In the Gundagai Court this week, Magistrate W. Finlay, said to an old pensioner who pleaded guilty to…

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