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

Courts & crime, 1946

1,617 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 11 of 81

Lithgow's Accommodation Lack--Education Official Sleeps At Police Station

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 2

Lithgow's accommodation facilities for visitors has been so inadequate that it was recently necessary for an official from the Education Department to obtain a bed for the night at the police station, or otherwise sleep in…

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Three Months Gaol Bathurst Railway Man Sentenced

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 24

Rejecting an appeal for leniency, the S.M. (Mr. Soiling) at Bathurst Court last Thursday sentenced a railway employee,…

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Police Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 10

At the Coolah Police Court on Monday last, Mr. J. C. Watson, health inspector for Coolah Shire, proceeded against Peter Dassos…

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Maltese on Murder Charge

National Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: At the Parramatta coroner's court today, Joe Xuereb (36) a Maltese market gardener, was committed for trial on a…

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Morris Committed For Kiosk Murder SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 2

Following yesterday's announcement by the City Coroner (Mr. Cookson), that he would recall Richard Gadd, of Katoomba,…

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Theft From Nurses' Quarters

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

Det. Sgt. E. E. Mabbutt and Plainclothes Constable W. J. Heron are conducting investigation at Brook House following a report of…

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Finnish Traitors Sentenced LONDON

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

Former president of Finland, Ryti, Was sentenced to 10 years' hard labor, and the former Prime Minister, Rangell, to six years by a war guilt…

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Youth's Alleged Assault on Child

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

Det.-Sergt E. E. Mabbutt and Plainclothes Constable W. J. Heron arrested an 18-year-old youth yesterday following the receipt of…

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­­Lithgow's Police Defied !

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

Unperturbed by a battery of questions, pleas and sighs of exasperation from two detectives and several constables a stranger, in Lithgow police station this morning, unconcernedly sucked his thumb, stared hard…

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Morris for Trial Kiosk Murder Case Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

Standing quietly at attention, Douglas Ronald Morris (26) journalist, today heard the City Coroner (Mr. Cookson) commit him…

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Journalist to Stand Trial on Kiosk Murder Sydney

Central Western Daily · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

Standing quietly at attention, Dougles Ronald Morrie, 26, journalist today heard the City Coroner (Mr. Cookson),…

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Police Strive to Arrest T.B. Menace

Central Western Daily · Saturday 23 February 1946 · page 1

Orange police are getting right behind the Anti-T B. Appeal and Youth Campaign that has been launched on a…

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Dead in Car Alleged Murder at Daceyville a Woman Arrested

National Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: A 33-year-old divorcee who left home an Tuesday saying she would stay with friends for a few days was found dead on the…

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Coolah Police Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 3

On Monday of last week, before Mr. J. S. Hart, Police Magistrate, Edmund Victor Borthistle of Henty, Tambar Springs was…

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Incident Assault Change

National Advocate · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 2

A Bathurst man was arrested here yesterday on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl aged 16½ years. The charge was the sequel to alleged incidents…

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Indianapolis Captain Guilty at Navy Court Washington

Central Western Daily · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 1

The Navy Department announced that a Court Martial has found Captain McVay guilty of negligence in falling to order a zig-zag course…

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Died in Hospital After Being in Police Station Sydney

Central Western Daily · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 1

Mystery surrounds the death of Ernest Alfred Frost, 66, of Botany Bead, Botany, who was taken to Sooth Sydney Hospital…

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Unlawful Assault Charge

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 2

A remand until April 11 was granted at Bathurst court yesterday in the case in which Claud Brill (43), a laborer, was charged with unlawfully…

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Indecent Assault Charge

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 2

At the Bathurst court yesterday, Harold Thomas Elms was remanded until February 28 on a charge of assaulting, with an act of indecency,…

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Hotel Theft at Orange

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 2

ORANGE, Monday: Thieves who broke into the Occidental Hotel. Lords Place, on Sunday morning, stole £18. Entrance was gained by a trace…

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