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Courts & crime, 1954

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Police Blitz Against Reckless Driving

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 6

The N.R.M.A. has congratulated the police on their ‘blitz’ against reckless driving, but fears that if the strength of…

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Mot Guilty of Negligent Driving Court Case Follows Berremangra Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 3

In the Gundagai Court last Thursday, Sydney Chas. Gover, of Kurri Kurri, was acquitted on a charge of…

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Woman Charged with Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Monday: An attractive 29-year-old new Australian, alleged by police to have strangled a woman…

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Room Like Charnel House Charged with father's murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A room in a Tamworth boarding house in which an elderly man was bartered to death resembled a charnel house, Central…

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Solicitor charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: A solicitor, charged with mis-appropriating more than £3000, was remanded at Central…

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Making Court ready for Petrov sitting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Man.: Las minute alterations to Number One High Court in preparation for the opening of…

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Sergeant Serving at Bar, N.z. Police Probe Told

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 4

WELLINGTON (New Zealand), Monday (A.A.P.): A policeman stationed for three years at the West Coast mining township of Reefton told a Commission of Inquiry into the New Zealand police today that he had seen his sergeant on…

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Charged with slaying child

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 1

LAUNCESTON, Tuesday: In Launceston Court today a man and woman were charged with manslaughter of a 5½-year-old child…

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Ten Years' Gaol Killed Father

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday—A Central Criminal Court jury yesterday round Reginald John Hall jot guilty of murder, but guilty…

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10 Years' Gaol for Manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A Central Criminal Court jury today found Reginald John Hall no[?]guilty of murder, but guilty…

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Remanded on charge of murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A war pensioner, with both wrists bandaged, was remanded in the Police Court…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 2

A Wagga man was fined at yesterday's Petty Sessions when he was called up for conviction and sentence for on offence for which he was given a two-year…

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Sent to Gaol for Vagrancy Terrorised Women in Junee District

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 5

A stronger to the district, Oscar O'Brien was sentenced to 14 days' hard labor in the Gundagai Court on a…

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Police Checked 900 VEHICLES Some Discrepancies In Numbers Found

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 5

During the first half of this year Junee police officers checked the chassis and engine numbers an…

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Prisoner's writ on gaol-mate

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: A man serving a sentence of 10 years gaol for rape is claiming damages from two…

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Prisoner Claims Damages From Queensland Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday — A man serving a sentence or 10 years' gaol for rape is claiming damages from two men for road…

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Court Case Costs P.A.H Society £1268158

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 1

A full statement of all legal costs and disbursements arising in connection with the preparation and hearing of the recent Supreme Court case against the 1950 committee of the Tumbarumba and Upper Murray Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society amounted to £1268158…

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Charged with Theft; False Pretences

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Thursday: Charges of theft and false pretences against the manager of a tunnel contracting…

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Burglary at Ganmain Hankinson’s Store Entered

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 5

On Wednesday at 7.30 a.m., a passer-by noticed that the front door of Messrs Hankinson’s Store…

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Divorce Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 1

Divorce proceedings were heard before His Honor Judge rennan, at the Leeton District Court on Tuesday and Wednesday last,…

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