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

Courts & crime, 1932

1,975 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 99

COLD - Blooded Murder Postmaster Mortally Wounded Wife's Narrow Escape INNISFAIL

National Advocate · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 3

COLD - blooded murder marked a desperate hold-up at Daradgee, near Innisfail, last night, when Charles Fava, storekeeper, and…

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Tell Tale Fumes Rum Still Revealed Police Raid at Marrickville Sydney Thursday

National Advocate · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 3

Fumes issuing from a ventilator gave the police investigating an attempted robbery of the shop next door, their first clue to the existence…

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Locals Saturday's Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 4

ON Saturday before Mr J. Lake, J.P., Harold Joseph Muldoon, for being drunk in a public place, was fined 5/-, in default…

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6 Killed Murder with Machine Gun Springfield (Miss.) Sat

National Advocate · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 2

Two sheriffs and four detectives were killed while attempting to eject a murder suspect from a farmhouse. The man opened fire on the officers…

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Desperate Suspect Six Police Shot Dead SPRINGFIELD (Missouri, U.S.A.)

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

Two sheriffs and four detectives were killed in an attempt to remove a murder suspect from a farm house. The latter opened fire on…

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West's Tomato Sauce Best! Small Debts Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

In the Bathurst Small Debts Court. yesterday, before Mr. W. S. Bromhead, S.M., Clements and McCarthy, secured a verdict for 13/- against W…

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Alleged Theft

Leader · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

Robert George Alderton, 25, appeared before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, in the Orange Court, on Monday, charged with having stolen two suits of…

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Burglary at Store. Two [?] Trial

Leader · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

In the Orange De[?]rt on Monday before Mr. R. C. Atht[?], P.M., William Edward V[?] was chargeed with bre[?]ing and [?]ing…

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Empty House Despoilers Are Sent to Gaol Sydney. This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 1

At the Central Court today, James Graves (46), a laborer, and William Graves (28), a laborer, pleaded guilty of three charges of having been…

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Rylstone and Kandos News Kandos Police Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 8

At the Kandos Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr H. H. Farrington, P.M., of Mudgee, a number of small debts cases under the…

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Warden's Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 12

Miners' rights issued at the Gulgong Warden's Court for the year 1931 totalled 388. Other figures are:—Applications for…

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Constable Convicted Sentence Suspended Theft of Leather Windsor

National Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

The case in which Constable Hitch cock (31) was charged with the theft of leather valued at £5 was concluded at Windsor Police Court to-day…

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Lawlessness Rules Gaol Has No Terrors Clergyman's Startling Statement

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 14

Referring to his previous statement, that no gaol would hold a lawbreaker it he belonged to certain trade [?] Rev. J. Hunter,…

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Murder and Suicide Hotel Proprietress Shot Dead a Queensland Sensation Brisbane

National Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

Following an altercation between Mrs. Emma Stewart licensee of the Camp Hotel at Julia Creek and an employee named W. Wade, the latter…

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Husband Charged Wife's Evidence Magistrate's Strong Comment Melbourne

National Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

As a result of evidence given by his wife, John Potter was committed for trial at the Preston Court to-day on a charge of breaking and entering…

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The New Guard Arrests Police Action Condemned Magistrate's Strong Comment Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

When John Burrough appeared at the Parramatta Court to-day on a charge of having placed a placard on a telegraph pole at Parramatta, Mr…

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His Wish Fulfilled Man Who Wanted Gaol SYDNEY Thursday

National Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

(Long Bay Gaol the terror of all Sydney criminals apparently holds no qualms for William Jennings, who was bound over for six months at…

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Police Discontent Mr. Gosling's Denial SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) to-night gave "an absolute and flat denial" to the allegations made in a section of the press that the police force…

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Some Plot Wholesale Murder of Europeans Misses Fire in India Calcutta

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

Plans for a wholesale assassination of Europeans were revealed at a judicial inquiry at Patna in the case of 11 Indians suspected of revolutionary…

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Indian Crisis Wholesale Arrests Police Fire on Crowd CALCUTTA

National Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

STRONG forces of police to-day rounded up Congressmen, raided the headquarters at Bombay, and arrested over 100 members of…

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