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

Courts & crime, 1929

1,839 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 5 of 92

Lithgow Police Court. Friday, January 18. (Before H. H. Farrington, P.M.)

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

George Fraser, for whom Henry Dyball pleaded guilty was fined 2s 6d with £2 7s 6d costs, in default seven days' imprisonment, for using a…

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Refused to Pay Board. Brothers Before Court

Leader · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 6

Albert and Ernest Rose, brothers, pleaded guilty, in the Orange Police Court on Friday, to charges of having refused to pay reasonable sums for…

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Anarchist Shoots Police. Woman Implicated in Crime. AMSTERDAM

Leader · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

Four policemen in the early hours visited a house at Grootogast, near Groningen, occupied by Wykatra, who was suspected of being an anarchist,…

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Divine Right of Kings. Wilhelm Still Champions Piety and Murder Berlin, Sunday Night

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

The ex-Kaiser has published a book entitled "My Ancestors." This he intends as a gift to his wife on his 70th birthday on January 27…

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Action at Trunkey Court. a Slattery Case Dismissed

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

Before Mr. Adams relieving S.M. at the Trunkey Court on Friday Walter S. Purnell publican of Trunkey Creek proceeded against Arthur…

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Carter Charged Case of Shifting Furniture Theft Charge Fails

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

Before Mr. Scobie S.M., at the Bathurst Police Court yesterday, Henry Jeremiah McEvoy, a carter, pleaded not guilty to a charge of…

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Over Tomatoes Kelso Residents in Court Charge of Assault Dismissed

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

Two Kelso residents came to holts in a [?]ddock on December 27 last over the disputed possession of a quantity of tomato plants, the sequel…

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Month's Gaol Cruelty to a Dog Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Because a dog had killed three pet kittens that he valued highly. Cecil Davis, a wardeman at the Men's State Refuge, admitted at the…

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Hit a Woman Three Months Gaol Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Sentence of three months' gaol was imposed on Leslie O'Connor, aged 29, who appeared at the North Sydney Court to-day charged with…

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Alleged Blackmail Man and Girl Charged Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Roy Anderson (42) and Eugean Spalding (21, a saleswoman, were changed at the Central Court to-day with having conspired together to…

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Police Promotions SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 5

Mr. Mitchell, Commissioner of Police, has announced the following promotions from First Class Sergeants to Inspectors: William Prior,…

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A Back Down Molong Magistrate and Motor Case Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police ordered the withdrawal of proceedings against J. O. Arkins of North Sydney for a breach of the Motor…

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Alleged Murder Victim Terribly Slashed Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

At the Central Police Court to-day Malcolm McKinnon aged 63, a rigger, was charged with having murdered James Logic Bla[?] on January…

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Winslett's Case Adjournment in Liquor Prosecution Police Make Fruitless Protest

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 3

When Mr. W. H. Henten applied at the Bathurst Police Court yesterday for an adjournment of the case of Albert Edward Winslett, who was…

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Serious Assault Case. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

At the Kogarah Court to-day Oscar Hicks (34), a painter, was charged [?] having assaulted John Giles at Cronulla on December 6…

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London Police Scandal Sergeant and Night Club Proprietress LONDON

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

Mr. Justice Avory refused application from Mrs. Meyrick, who is charged with bribing Sergeant Goddard, to be tried separately…

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Policeman Dead in Bombay Riots Clash With Strikers After Police Volley BOMBAY (India)

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 1

Communist agitators are behind the fresh outbreak of labor troubles in Bombay, which culminated to-day in a serious clash with the police…

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Police Court Correction

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 2

In the report, which appeared in Wednesday's issue, of the charge preferred against Herbert Jones at the police court on Monday, it was…

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Lithgow Police Court. Wednesday, January 23. (Before J. A. Longworth, C. M..) Drunkenness

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

Norman Baker was charged with drunkenness in Main-st. on Tuesday and was fined 10-, in default three day's imprisonment…

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Decrease in Crime Bathurst Police Statistics

National Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 2

Returns compiled by tho police department for the police district of Bathurst, show that 194 offence against the person were committed…

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