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

Courts & crime, 1939

1,788 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 20 of 90

'Phone Betting Set Back For Police MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 2

[?]endeavors to stamp out illegal betting by the use of telephones have received a set-back. The Postmaster-General's…

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Theft of Chaff Two Men Plead Guilty. S[?]ole to Feed Injured Horse. Dubbo

National Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 5

At the Dubbo Police Court this morning before Mr. E. J. Etherton C.M James Weston 43, and Arthur Donhardt 41, two strangers to the…

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Complains to Police And Is Himself Charged

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

James Dalziel walked into the charge room at Lithgow police station on Friday night to make a complaint, and was himself charged with…

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Nine Months Receiver Sentenced SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

JOHN Hourigan (46), a gardener, convicted of receiving was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at the Quarter' Sessions…

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Vicious Attack. Orange Teacher Injured Unprovoked Assault

Leader · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 2

Attacked by a mob of young hoodlums at the corner of Anson and Kite Street on Saturday night, Ernest Way, young…

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"Using Motor Car" Young Man Charged Case Dismissed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

BEFORE Mr Pickup, P.M., at the Mudgee Police Court this morning, John Lindsay Callaghan, was charged with using a motor car…

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Shouted "Liar!" Convicted Man Warned In Court SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 2

John Hourigan (46), a gardener, convicted of receiving, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions to-day by Judge…

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Pensioned Off Fit Man Rigors of Police Life Did Not Harm Him

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 7

At 50 years of age be was presumed to be beyond the arduous demands of police duties. But was he? Read what he says now—five…

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City Gangsters. Rob Seven People. Police Were Not Told. Because of Threats. MELBOURNE, [?]

Leader · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

In American gangster fashion, two gunmen, posing as policemen, bailed up and robbed three men, three women…

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GORDON McKAY MYSTERY Fire Bones Human Police Reticent Wellington (N.z.)

National Advocate · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

Pathologists have definitely established that the bones recovered from the Piha shack fire are those of a human being, but they cannot…

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Pensioned Off a Fit Man Rigours of Police Life Did Not Harm Him

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

At 50 years of age he was presumed to be beyond the arduous demands of police duties. But was he f Read what he says now--five years after he…

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Magistrate's Warning

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

"If you come up before me again, especially for creating a disturbance in front of this house, you will be bound over." remarker. Mr…

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Unusual Application Dangerous Driving Charge, Magistrate's Comments Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 1

An unusual application was made in the traffic court to-day when the police sought to have evidence heard in a traffic case although an inquest…

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Drunks in Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

A first offender who appeared in [?] Bathurst Police Court yesterday charged with drunkenness was admanished and discharged. Another…

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Court Bearing Adjourned

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

When a case was called in the Bathurst court yesterday in which Roy Lawrence Gordon Elbournc is charged with having driven a car in…

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Sentenced to Death German-Jew Lawyer Alleged Treason Plot at Hamburg London

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 3

The "Times" Berlin correspondent states that the Hamburg People Court sentenced a Jewish lawyer Herbert Israel Michaells to death…

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£19,140 Involved Woolcott - Forbes' Partner Charged Orange Grazier's Loss Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

Brought from England, Gordon Rupert Russell (35) appeared in the Criminal Court to-day to answer charges alleging…

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Richard Duesbury Bankruptcy Court Application SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 1

Before the Chief Judge In Equity. (Mr. Justice Long Innes today. A. E. Campbell liquidator of Du Menier Laboratories Ltd. was the…

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Ex-boxing Champion Fined For Assault LONDON

National Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 1

The former flyweight boxing champion of the world, Benny Lynch, was found not guilty to-day on a charge of assaulting his infant son "to the…

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Palestine Problem Terrorist Murder Shopkeeper Who Refused to Subscribe Haifa

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 1

An Arab shopkeeper who refused to subscribe to the Arab terrorist campaign was shot dead by an Arab terrorist in Haifa to-day…

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