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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 12 of 81

Old Offender Before Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 2

Samuel Bischel (70), was admonished and discharged at the Bathurst court yesterday on a charge of drunkenness. Defendant is an old offender…

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Soldiers Fined for Offensive Behaviour S.M. Issues Warning at Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 1

Edmond Buckleigh (19) and Leville Richard Hughes (18), two soldiers, were each fined £5 at the Bathurst court yesterday on a charge of…

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Young Woman on Murder Charge

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: His, father, now dead had been violent and sadistic and had punished his children with a greenhide whip, said Robert…

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Morris Refused Bail Kiosk Murder Case

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Stating that the general rule of law in such cases was in refuse bail except in extraordinary circumstances, Mr. Justice Owen, in…

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Police to Have Bagpipes Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 3

The NSW police force is to have in additional band of bag-pipes. Twenty six policemen will appear in future in State and public…

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Preference Act Flaws Court Penalties End Further Claims

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Flaws in the Re-establishment Act dealing with reemployment of returned soldiers, have been revealed, in was admitted today…

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Portland Police Court

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 6

At Portland Police Court on Monday before Mr. J. S. Hart, P.M. ECHO OF TRAGIC DEATH…

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Daughter Freed on Murder Charge

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: After a retirement of 20 minutes the jury in the Criminal Court found Mary Bruyn (19), married, of East St…

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Gaol Releases Made On Established Rule SYDNEY

Central Western Daily · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 4

Replying to questions in Parliament today concerning the early releases from gaol of eleven convicted persona, the…

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Man on Theft Charge Dubbo Grazier's Wife Loses Jewellery

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A man said at the Quarter Sessions that two weeks alter he had met a woman on a ferry he visited her flat where…

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Divorce Court Reports

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: There is renewed activity in the Parliamentary Labor Caucus for the introduction of legislation banning, the publication…

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Att.-gen. Criticises Sydney Paper Reports About Gaol Releases

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Strong criticism of a Sydney newspaper, the "Telegraph" was made in the Legislative Assembly today by the Attorney…

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Ban on Dutch Corvettes Arbitration Court Move

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Proposals for lifting the black ban holding up repairs on Dutch navy corvettes at Garden Island were made to union…

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Slept at Police Station Education Official Without Bed At Lithgow

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 1

Lithgow Council was told this week that an official from the Education Department obtained a bed for the night at the local police…

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Soldiers Gaoled for Assault Sequel to Hotel Disturbance Cases at Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 1

Sentences of three months' hard labor were imposed on two soldiers at Bathurst court yesterday when convicted on charges of unlawfully assaulting the will…

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Theft of Golf Club Safe

National Advocate · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday: A trail of blood put detectives on the track of a 3cwt. safe containing £100 which was stolen from Bexley golf club last…

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Wife Alleges Assault in Tokio

National Advocate · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: A woman said in the Divorce Court today that her husband and a woman had kept her against her will at a house in Tokio…

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Indecent Assault Charge Bathurst Taximan for Trial

National Advocate · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 1

At the Bathurst Children's Court yesterday. Harold Thomas Elms, a local taxi-driver, was committed for trial by Mr. Solling, S.M., at Bathurst…

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Statement on Gaol Releases

National Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The Minister for Justice, Mr. Downing announced today that a statement on the revisor of prisoners' sentences will be made…

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U.S.A. STRIKERS Serious Clash With Police New York

National Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 2

America's bitterest postwar strike reached a climax yesterday when police at Philadelphia tried to prevent the mass picketing of electrical work…

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