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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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

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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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 2

Hermon G. Kook, of "Woodland," Darlington Point, was fined £5 with 12/ Court costs at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for competing with the railways. It was alleged that Kook…

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'39 Car May Have Been Abandoned Police Take Vehicle Into Safe Custody

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 8

For a period of between ten days and a fortnight, a car has been parked in Seig-nior street, on land adjoining…

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35 Year Old Man Pestering Young Girls in Junee Police Trying to Locate Offender

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 8

Junee police are endeavour-ing to locate a man who has been reported as pestering young girls in the town…

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Gundagai Police Officer Injured in Unusual Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 1

Constable P. Hlckson, of the Gundagai Police, was Injured in a most unusual accident yesterday, as a…

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Prophet's Sister Petitions Court Claims Brother Is Religious Maniac

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 1

LANSING (Michigan), Thursday — A sister of Dr. Charles Laughhead, unsuccessful tidal wave prophet, yesterday…

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Failed to Attend Court to Answer Charges Young Gundagai Man on Two Traffic Charges

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 4

YOUNG GUNDAGAI MAN, Robert James Bartlett, failed to appear at the Gundagai Court this week to answer two charges preferred against him, and consequently his hall of £20 was forfeited…

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Admonished and Discharged by Magistrate for Attempt

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 1

"THLOWING YOURSELF UNDER MOTOR BIKES IS NOT THE BEST ANSWER", MR. J. LETT (STIR-ENDIARY MAGISTRATE) SAID TO A MAN IN THE JUNEE COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS ON…

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Junee Hospital Suee in Court for Fees. Over £60 Involved " " In Four Judgments

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 5

Four separate judgments were made in the Small Debts Court in Junee on Wednesday afternoon against…

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Five Egyptians sentenced to death

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 1

CAIRO, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Five officers and men of the Egyptian armed forces were sentenced to death by firing…

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Wagga Court items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 3

Six persons charted with drunkenness fatted to appear at the Court of Petty Sessions held in Wagga…

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Police Alerted to Watch for Armed Couple

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday— Police in every N.S.W. station have been alerted to watch for a petite red-haired woman and a male…

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Motorists at level crossings By Superintendent Snowden of N.S.W. Police Traffic Branch

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 4

Each year a staggering toll of life is taken by railway level crossing smashes. Unfortunately railway level…

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