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

Courts & crime, 1941

964 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 23 of 49

Lithgow District Court Monday, June 23 (Before Judge Shortland) . Tenancy Case '

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 2

Ernest Harold Williams sued William John Gibbons, dairy farmer, and Ethel Gibbons, his wife for £117 for use and occupation of land in…

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Orange Court List. Monday. (Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M.). “Forgot to Enter It.”

Leader · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 4

When charged with failing to enter particulars of an article which be purchased as a second-hand dealer. Cyril John Pearsall stated that there…

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Vicious Assault Sydney

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 2

THE jagged end of a broken tumbler was thrown into the face of Detective Woodward, who trailed a suspect for a quarter of…

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Tools From Car Lithgow Man Sentenced

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 3

John Thomas Rowan was charged at Lithgow court on Tuesday with that at Lithgow on May 31 he was in the yard of the Tattersall's Hotel,…

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Murder As a Fine Art Germans Bomb Civilians

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 11

FOR some time there have been strong indications that the Germans are deliberately bombing civilians in the…

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District Court Breaks a Record

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 3

The sitting of Lithgow District Court on Monday was one of the longest in recent years. It began at 10 a.m. and, with a break for lunch…

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Police Returns System Ridiculed at Conference SYDNER

National Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 2

Constable J. B. Fallon, Lithgow delegate to the Police Association conference today declared that if two constables brought in a drunk…

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Stealing Cases Adjourned

National Advocate · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 2

A further adjournment was granted at the Bathurst Police Court yesterday morning in connection with the case involving two young men…

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Cases at Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 2

At the request of Mr. R. G. L. Baillie who appeared for defendant the case in which Thomas Vincent Burke, sheep assistant aged 33 years…

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Attempted Murder SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 1

AT the Parramatta Police Court, Jack Andrews, an aircraftsman, was remanded on a charge of feloniously…

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Attempted Murder Charge SYDNEY

National Advocate · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 1

The condition of Mrs. Mo[?] Andrews (26) of Wentwirthville who was found battered about the head in a paddork at Wes[?]nead early…

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Soldier Charged Serious Injuries To Wife SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 2

At Parramatta court to-day Jack Andrews (25), an aircraftman, was remanded on a charge of feloniously wounding his wife with intent to…

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Police Patrols Find Many Faults

National Advocate · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 6

Returns of the mobile police truck patrols and of other traffic officers chow that during the month of May an abnormally high number of…

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Police Patrols Find Many Faults Road Safety Council Article

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 4

Returns of the mobile police truck patrols and other traffic officers show that during the month of May an abnormally high number of traffic…

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“Smacked Their Faces.” Wife’s Story in Court. Boulden Gets 15 Months

Leader · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 2

“I was [?] disgusted at seeing them together that I smacked both their facet,” declared Mrs. Susan Ellen Boulden, in the…

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Wounding Charge Man Before the Court SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 1

Jack Andrews (25) [?] was remanded for 14 days in Parramatta Police Court today on a charge of felomcusly wounding his…

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Lithgow Police Court Tuesday, July 1 (Before C. Pickup, P.m.) Drunkenness Charge

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 2

David Wilson (37) was fined £1, or 48 hours' imprisonment, for being found drunk in the bar of the Exchange Hotel…

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Hotel Fracas South Bowenfels Incident Hearing at Lithgow Court

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 3

It was alleged at a hearing at Lithgow court yesterday that one of a group of four men threatened to burn down the Royal Hotel,…

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Bound Over Alleged Drunken Driver Newbridge Man Charged at Bathurst Police Court

National Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 1

On the grounds that injections he had had when two of his teeth were extracted, on the same afternoon may have affected his condition, the S.M…

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