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

Courts & crime, 1934

1,819 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 91

Came to Court in Overcoat Said He Was Not Drunk. Dubbo

National Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 3

Harry Williams, one of Dubbo's oldest identities, came to the Police Court this morning in answer to a charge of having been found drunk in…

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Stabbed in Back Incident at Big Cricket Match a Divorce Court Sequel Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

Following the stabbing of Thomas Buckland, while on the Hill at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday. William Holden (43) was charged at…

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Grazier Fined Sheep Stealing Charge

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 1

CHARGED at the Bathurst Police Court this week with having stolen three sheep, valued at £2 14/, at Stoney Creek, near…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing Trunkey Grazier Discharged Fined on Minor Charge Trunkey

National Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 5

Unusual district interest was evinced in a sheep Stealing case heard in the local Police Court to-day, when Selby Edward Elijah Warren, a well known…

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Tragedy of the North. Whites Murdered Eight Blacks Charged Perth

National Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 5

The killing of two prospectors, Adolph Koch and Stephen Arinski, at the Fitz[?]urice River, by aborigines during November, 1932, was unfolded…

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Latest Local News Valuation Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 12

THE Gulgong Municipal Council is to hold a court for the hearing, of appeal against valuations for the year 1933 at the Court…

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"Putting Them In" Police Commissioner Quotes Burns

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 9

THE birthday celebrations of "Bobby" Burns, Scotland's pride and Joy, was fittingly celebrated by the clans in Sydney last week…

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Milked the Cow Novel Court Case

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 16

MR. Hardwick, P.M. dismissed the case, heard at the Queenbeyan Police Court, against Frederick James McCauley, of illegally…

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District Court Sitting to be Adjourned

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 4

Word was received this afternoon that the District Court, which was to have sat at Lithgow next Monday, will not be held owing to the…

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Court House Business Was Heavy During Last Year

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

A review of the business transacted at the Lithgow court house last year shows that the staff was kept busy, a mass of correspondence amounting…

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Position at Boulder Quiet After Dreadful Storm Heavy Police Reinforcements Many Pathetic Scenes Perth, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 4

There have been no further outbreaks of disorder in Kalgoorlie and Boulder since Tuesday night. Police reinforcements, which…

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3 Months Gaol Assault on Constable Warburton Judge's Lenient View Mudgee

National Advocate · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 2

After a two days' trial at the Mudgee Quarter sessions Thomas Lockwood Martin (46), a laborer, was today found guilty on a charge of…

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Robbed Friends 12 Months Gaol Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Ross Garland (18) was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for housebreaking at Maroubra…

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Rail Men's Increase Injunction by Federal Court a Unique Action SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 2

Unprecedented action was taken to-day, when the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration served an order on the State…

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Wellington Assault Accused Remanded DUBBO

National Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 2

Leslie Norman Lynch (28) who was remanded at the Wellington Court for having assaulted Ben Sloane and with riotous behavior and resisting…

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Two Years Gaol a Youthful Housebreaker Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 6

Pleading guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day to a charge of having had housebreaktng implements in his possession and to three charges of…

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Magistrate’s Warning

Leader · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 2

A warning that it was his intention to endeavor to end [?] which was often rife in Orange was issued by Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M. from the…

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[?] Gaol Cell to Altar. BRISBANE

Leader · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 4

A rather [?] took place at Toowoomba yesterday when [?] Arthur Sawyer, who is serving [?]…

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Woman As Shield House Breaker Sent to Gaol SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 1

At the quarter sessions to-day Theodore Hendy (28) was sentenced to two years' gaol for a series of house robberies…

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Cobbora Case At Quarter Sessions Alleged Assault on Constable Keen Public Interest

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 6

PUBLIC galleries were crowded at the Mudgee Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, when Thomas Lockwood Martin, of Cobbora, was charged before Judge Barton with having, on 26th October last, assaulted Constable L. J. Warburton,…

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