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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

1,434 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 72

Mudgee Police Court. a Light List. Riding and Driving Lights

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 3

Mr. E. A. Prior, P.M., Presided at the Mudgee Police Court on Monday, when the following cases were dealt with:—…

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Police Association Meeting

National Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 2

A well attended meeting of the Bathurst branch of the New South Wales Police Association was held at the Barracks on Tuesday night…

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Lithgow Police Court. Monday. February 7. (Before C. T. Wood. J.p.) a Number of Cases

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 2

Sidney McLean (39) was fined 10 in default 24 hours' imprisonment for having been drunk in Tank-street on Sunday. He had previous convictions…

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Warder Whitney And Boggo Road Gaol Riots How the Uprising was Quelled

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 4

TAMES WHITNEY, a former popular chief warder at the Bathurst Gaol, is a much discussed man to-day throughout Australia, especially…

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Police Protection the Windeyer District. Retrenchment Run Riot

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 2

In a recent issue the "Guardian" bad occasion to comment rattier strongly on the proposed abolition of the one man police station at…

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Robbed His Union Railway Employee Sentenced SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 2

John Coady a railway employee who had pleaded guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to having misap­propriated money belonging to the…

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Lithgow Police Court. Thursday, February 10. (Before E. A. Prior, P.m.) Motor Offences

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 6

Raymond Atkinson and Cecil K. Haigh were charged with failing to return expired motor drivers' licences. Both pleaded guilty and were fined 5s…

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Adelaide Murder Victim's Wife Still Stricken Adelaide

National Advocate · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 4

The widow or John Robert Hindmarsh, Who was killed and robbed of three diamond rings at the Grosvenor Hotel in Adelaide, is still a…

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Children's Court. Alleged Serious Offence

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 6

Leslie James Lane (27), a resident of Lithgow, was committed for trial at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions on May 17, on a charge of having…

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Molong Man Charged with Assault. Charge Not Proven

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 14

Bertie Claude Williams appeared before Judge Armstrong and a jury on Wednesday afternoon charged with assaulting a male person, to wit, a boy 14…

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Motor Car Theft at Molong

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 10

Leslie Langdridge and Francis Clarke, two young men, were charged at the Orange Quarter Sessions on Tuesday with stealing a motor car at…

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International Court of Settlement. a Resolution from Canada. OTTAWA

Leader · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 1

Sir George Foster, president of the League of Nations Society in Canada, on opening the first session of the annual meeting on Friday urged…

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Saved by Police Sydney Girl's Narrow Escape Bigamous Marriage Stopped. SYDNEY

National Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 2

Alexander Westland Robertson, 29, was to have led a girl into a bigamous marriage to-morrow, according to evidence given at the Dar[?]hurst…

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Back in Sydney The Absconding Solicitor Case Before Court SYDNEY

National Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 2

Harry Waldemar Baume, who was brought back from Port Said under police escort arrived in Sydney today and was almost immediately brought…

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Mayor in Gaol Governs City From Cell

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 9

A message from Edgewater, New Jersey, states that arrangements are being made so that Mayor Henry Rishell who was…

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Murderous Assault Throttled by Thu[?] Merrygoen Man Robbed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 7

James Baker, a visitor from Merrygoen, was the victim of a murderous assault at a house in Harris St., Ultimo, last week,…

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Police and Carnival Games

National Advocate · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 2

The action of the Bathurst police in stopping certain games of chance from being conducted at the carillon carnival on King's Parade on…

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Cables a Mayor in Gaol. New York, This Morning

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 2

A message from Edgeworth, New Jersey, states that arrangements are being made for the Mayor, Henry Wishel, who was sentenced to a year's…

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Vetoed. Proposed Abolition Windeyer Police Station

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 6

As a result of attention being drawn by the Guardian to the hardship that would be inflicted on stock-owners in the Windeyer…

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Games of Chance Bathurst Police Take Action Consternation at Carillon Carnival

National Advocate · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 2

The carillon carnival had not been long in progress on King's Parade on Saturday night when several games of chance, which the committee…

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