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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,311 stories in Riverina's papers · page 65 of 66

Car driver charged at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 3

Wagga Police ducted a man with driving under the Influence following an accident in…

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Killing Feared by Police

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A Police Sergeant told Balmain Court today that if a man were granted bail on attempt made be made to kill Raymond Smith, whose car was bombed…

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Informal Gathering at Court House Presentation to Insp. Craig

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 3

In addition to his regular du­ties at Stipendiary Magistrate Mr. K. W .Smith presided at a gathering of the members…

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Five years' gaol for manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A. Bourke, horse-breaker, was sentenced to five yean gaol in Central Criminal Court…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 3

A Kopooka soldier was sentenced to four months' gaol by Mr. J. A. Letts, S.M. on each of two charges of stealing at the Wagga Petty Sessions, yesterday. The soldier is Murray D…

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4 Mths for Junee Theft, But £30 Not Recovered

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 1

£30 stolen from Mr. Noel Wade at the Commercial Hotel in Junee on December 1st. has not been recovered…

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Mother Alleges Baby Taken From Wallendbeen Seeking Custody in Equity Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — An attractive 19-year-old woman, whose husband is in goal, told the Equity Court today that her mother-in-law had taken her 17-months-old son without her consent…

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Inquiry on Murder at Tumbarumba

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 1

A senior C.I.B. homicide detective arrived in Tumbarumba on Friday last to continue investigations into the murder of…

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Former Jugiong Resident Killed Five Years’ Gaol for Manslaughter

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 1

FORMER manager of Benangaroo station, Jugiong Ralph Allan, aged 58, was killed recently when he was struck on the head with a place of wood during an argument at a Bourke sheep station…

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Judge Praises Police “Ever Ready to Assist The Public”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 5

“It’s an extraordinary thing that there are so many attacks on the Police these days,” said Judge E. Clegg…

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Police inquiry on Constable

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday : Senior police officers will examine the transcript of evidence in a recent baby custody case to see whether disciplinary action…

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Police Inquiry on Wallendbeen Constable

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday — Senior police officers will examine the transcript of evidence in a recent baby custody case to see whether…

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Leeton Court items Four men fined for betting

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 3

LEETON, Thursday: Four men were fined a total of £72 in the Leeton Petty Sessions today on charges of using their premises for betting…

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Gaol Term for Drunken Driver

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 2

A Leeton man, Lindsay Gordon Miskin (32), a laborer, pleaded guilty to five traffic charges in the Cootamundra…

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Safest Drivers for 1954 Two Picked By the Police for Prizes

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

A presentation was made to "The Year's Safest Drivers" at the Junee Community Advancement Fund's…

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Violence Flares Up in Cyprus Again Students Stone Police and British Cars: Tear Gas Used

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

NICOSIA, Monday Students throwing stones demonstrated again in Metaxas Square yesterday, defying the British ban on public gatherings of more than five people…

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"Contemptible theft," says Magistrate

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 4

MAITLAND, Monday: A 42-year-old laborer. who stole a mother's flowers from her son's grave, was "completely…

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Motorists Charged with Traffic Offences

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 3

At Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., a number of defendants were charged with…

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Truck driver charged with manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: City Coroner (Mr. F. L McNamara) today. committed a truck driver for trial on a…

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Police search for man

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday: Police are searching for an Inverell businessman, who has disappeared in the Tamworth…

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