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Courts & crime, 1954

1,311 stories in Riverina's papers · page 40 of 66

Deputation to the Police on School Signs

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1954 · page 2

The South Wagga Progress Association will ask the Police Superintendent at Wagga to receive a depuration to discuss the matter of safety signs outside two Wagga schools. Three other city organisations will be invited to be…

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Police think bodgie, widgie cult is dying

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday: Police said today they considered the Brisbane bodgie and widgie cult was dying because of…

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Surrenders to Police: Murder Case

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The police search for a man alleged to have been concerned in the murder of John Robert…

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Remanded on charge of murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Leonard James Elliott (28) laborer, was remanded until to-morrow without ball in…

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Claim Car Thieves Tuned in to Police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Two men charged with having stolen cars and property to the value of £8000, had a…

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Garage Murder Mystery

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 1

Bathurst police said last week they believed the 78-year-old owner of a lonely Walang store-garage was murdered. A mail driver found the old mans body last Thursday morning. The storekeeper, Arthur Shirlaw, lived alone in a house near a corrugated shed which he used as a store and garage…

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P.P. Board Solicitor Castigated by Magistrate Discourtesy to the Court Claims S. M.

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 5

Tumut Solicitor, Mr. John C. Orr, was severely castigated in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday, when the Presiding Magistrate, Mr. M. Feggans, accused the legal man of being discourteous to the Court…

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Gaol Stabbing Underworld notoriety is wounded

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: One of the best-known figures of the Australian underworld, Harold…

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£175 in Fines for Speedsters at Gundagai Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 2

Speedsters contributed £175 in fines and costs at the Gundagai Court on Tuesday last, when twenty five drivers pleaded guilty to exceeding the speed limit. Most of the speedsters were…

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Tumut Licensing Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 1

At the Tumut Licensing Court on Wednesday before Mr. N. Fegan (Licensing Magistrates) the licence of the Commercial Hotel,…

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No Sheep Stealing in This District Many Reports Of the Extent Discounted

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 1

Allegations have been made that sheep stealing in southern N.S.W. has reached tremendous proportions…

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No Marriage Plan Divorcee Tells Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A divorcee told the Criminal Court toddy she had never planned to marry the husband of a woman the Crown alleges she…

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Stewart Dawson Not Home to Get Court Notice

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday — An order was made for service of a bankruptcy notice by registered by mall on David Stewart…

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2 Women Weep in Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Two women broke down and wept in the Criminal Court dock today when a…

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Youth charged with father's murder

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday: Police yesterday charged an 18-year-old youth with, murdering his father after an argument at…

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Wollongong Murder Bashed Man Was Robbed Say Police

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Monday — Police investigating the murder of Charles Liollos at Wollongong golf course on Friday have…

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Police search for hit-run driver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Police are still searching for a hit run driver who fatally injured a near-blind ex-serviceman at Randwick on Friday night. The dead man was Charles Roderick McLean (45)…

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Indian Holy Men Plan Revolt Police Raid "Love Cult" Monastry

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 1

COTTACK (India). Monday — Orissa State police scorching a riverside "Jove cult" monastry at Cuttack have uncovered…

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Gundagai Police in Man Hunt Migrants Hide Out in Moutainous Country

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 1

GUNDAGAI POLICE OFFICERS last week featured in a weird type of man hunt, when for days they searched the mountainous country of Mr. Wm. Nicholls’ property at the Five Mile, in quest of two migrants (a man and a…

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Admitted theft of £17,000

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 1

PERTH, Monday: When the charge against a former Australian National Airways accountant, Redmund Hurley O'Dwyer (37), of having stolen £44,448…

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