Police Join Air Force
SYDNEY. Sunday: Between 200 and 400 country and city police have applied to join the RAAF air crews within the past three weeks. It is…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,049 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 53
Paymaster's Lapse Theft From Censor's Office
BRISBANE, Monday—For having stolen £1,356 while employed as a paymaster in the censor's office, Thomas Michael Smith (39) soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Excess Fare Charged Taximan Fined and Refund Ordered Case at Bathurst Court Man in Serious Condition Victim Refuses to "Squeal."
Raymond C. R. Wearne a taxi driver, was fined £3 with 18 - cost at the Bathurst Court yesterday on a charge of charging excess fare for SYDNEY, Monday.—Believed to have been the victim of an underworld feud, William McCarthy, (24), was found by two Mal[?]ese [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sequel to Axe Attack Man on Murder Charge
MELBOURNE, Monday: In the Criminal Court today. Ferdinand James Kennett (35), of Footscray, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butchers' Official Fined Federal Court Decision
SYDNEY, Monday: Mr. Atkinson, S.M., in a reserved decision given in a special Federal court today, imposed a fine of £15 on Frederick Louis Paul,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missed the Boat Home English Soldier Before Court Martial
SYDNEY, [?] martial co[?] two [?] and a British officer [?] discharged Pte., Harold Johnson [?] a member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate Warns on Rabbit Neglect
The relieving magistrate at Bathurst court on Monday (Mr. M.S. Meagher) issued a warning that heavier penalties will be inflicted in future on landholders failing to destroy rabbits on their properties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Assault in Taxi. Young Soldier Fined
When Frederick William Yates. a soldier, returned home and found his married sister in company with Royal James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Excess Prices for Liquor Allegations in Conspiracy Case Four Men Charged
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Evidence that he had heard his former accountancy partner, Richard Kempley (42), instruct a hotel manager that he should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →False Information Alleged. Police Case Fails
An interesting case from Cumnock was [?]ard at the Orange Court on Monday when Raymond Joshua Whiley was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spirit Merchant Heavily Fined Big Quantity Liquor Seized by Police
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—In the city Supreme Court today, Julius Augustus Gromann a wine and spirit merchant of Collins Street, Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Orange Court. Monday (Before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.m.) Drunks
Another large batch of drunks [?] before the court on Monday and [?] the previous [?] needed a scrub down. They were arrested in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Years' Gaol Elderly Man's Offence Against Young Girl
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In a scathing indictment of the criminal code- Justice Douglas said the revision of sentences for sexual crimes was long…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Chronic Drunk Record Court Appearance
BALLARAT, Wednesday: James Gleeson (75) made his 267th appearance in the Ballarat police court to-day on charges of drunkenness. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Increase in Gaol Population
The population of Bathurst Gaol was increased this week as the result of the arrival from Sydney of two batches of prisoners totalling about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youth Charged With Suicide Attempt
Believed to have deliberately thrown himself on the line in front the west-bound Mudgee mail as it was nearing Mount Victoria station at about 1.15 a.m. to-day, a youth was taken into custody by the police and later charged at the Katoomba court with attempted suicide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol for Barmaid Whisky Sold Above Fixed Price
SYDNEY, Thursday: For selling liquor at a price above the fixed maximum, Constance Charlesworth (43), a widow, was sentenced to a month's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russians Sweeping In Great Arc Towards Baltic But Polish Drive Is Held Beachhead Assault Still Delayed Great Attacks on Secret Weapon Bases
Although the Red Army continues to make spectacular advances and gains in the direction of the Baltic --the capture of Dno is the latest success--it is pointed out that the German's are successfully holding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bible Student's Lapse Three Years for Indecent Assault
SYDNEY, Friday: Thomas Hylton Stevens (21), who formerly taught a bible class at a Seventh Day Adventist Church in a Sydney suburb was today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Break, Enter and Steal Charge Accused Committed
At the Mudgee Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Solling, P.M., Milton Laurance (18) and Leonard Lawson (20), strongers to the…
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