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

Courts & crime, 1931

1,690 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 10 of 85

Blazing Car Murder Press Approves of Verdict London

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2

The newspapers are almost unanimous in approving of the Justice of the Rouse verdict. The "Daily Herald" states that the six-year-old…

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Court House Business Statistics for 1930 Interesting Comparisons Increase in Land Revenue

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1

BUSINESS transacted at the Bathurst Court House during 1930 makes interesting reading when compared with the operations for…

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Terrible Mistake in Gaol for 40 Years Berlin

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 1

A terrible judicial error has just been revealed. A Saxony youth named Theerman was convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering a…

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Constables Charged a Secret Inquiry Alderman Objects to Methods Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

One of the first witnesses at the departmental inquiry at police headquarters to-day into the case of Constable Arthur Wenham Edmunds was…

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Girl Car Driver Mistook Police for Bookmakers a Punishment Reduced Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 1

Norma Cahill, an attractive young woman, told Judge White at the Appeals Court to-day that she had mistaken a police car for one containing…

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Dr. Brooke Moore Must He Appear Before Compensation Commission? Supreme Court Warrant Suggested Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

The question whether a doctor should be compelled to attend the hearing of the Workers' Compensation Commission to give evidence was…

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Assault Alleged Against Two Police Officers Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

Charges of assault by two police officers, as the outcome of an opium raid, were mentioned at the Central Summons Court to-day, when Walter…

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Attempt to Murder Court at Hospital Kane Remanded

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

Before a special Court held at the Mudgee District Hospital on January 30, before Mr. O. J. Lake J.P. James Francis Kane was remanded…

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Murder of Woman Husband Arrested London

National Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

The police inquiries into the death of Mrs. Julia Wallace, who was allegedly murdered while her husband was decoyed from home by a bogus…

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Sensational Charges in Alleged Conspiracy Trial Interesting Case Before Court Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day Frederick Oertel, Clive Cooper, W. A. J. Marshall, Alexander Marshall and Gertrude Cope were charged with…

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Sent to Gaol

Leader · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 4

Facts of a particularly disgusting nature were discussed at the Orange Court, on Wednesday, when [?] James Crump. 21, was charged with…

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"Goldmaker" Sentenced Laboratory Equipment Confiscated Munich

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 2

Tausend, who styled himself a gold- maker, was to- day found guilty of fraud, and sentenced to 44 months' imprisonment, of which he had…

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Boxer Gaol Escapee. Arrested at G[?]r .COONAMBLE

Leader · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 4

Harry Coal[?] the New Zealand boxer, who m o H from the[?] his lockup last week, was arrested [?]s moraine by two [?]…

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Lithgow Police Court Friday, January 6 (Before J. A. Longworth, C. M.) Drunk and Disorderly

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 2

George Dunn was charged with having been found in a drunken and disorderly condition in the bar of the Grand Central Hotel on February 5…

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Rubbish in Streets "A Trivial Matter" Alderman Browning on Magistrate's Decision

National Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5

Dealing with the nuisance of litter in the streets, mentioned in the overseer, of works report. Alderman Browning, at last night's meeting of the…

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£25 for Photo Kandos Coroner Charged But Local Butcher Does Not Succeed Kandos, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 2

At the police court to- day Roy William Tucker, butcher, proceeded against Victor Sayer Flanagan, local coroner and a Justice of the Peace,…

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Police Court. Food Order Cases

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 11

On Friday of last week, before Mr. F. H. Myors, J.P., Ronald Chambers, charged with attempting to obtain a food order by…

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Charged With Manslaughter

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 14

A well-known Cargo farmer, Sidney Wentworth Davis, aged 32, was brought before the Orange Court on Friday afternoon of last…

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Sofala Police Court a Lengthy Sitting Local Residents Fined Sofala

National Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 1

Mr. W. S. Bromhead, S.M. had a busy day at the Sofala Police Court to-day, when a number of cases were dealt with…

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"Facing Bankruptcy" Landholders and Shire Rates Request for Decrease Turon Council Powerless "Must Appeal to Court"

National Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3

Landholders asking for a reduction of rates received cold comfort from the Turon Shire Council yesterday. The president (Cr. Jas. Crossley) acting as…

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