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

Courts & crime, 1946

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Parker's Appeal Upheld Company Acted Wrongly Court Criticises Both Union and Employers

National Advocate · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Industrial Commission today ordered the reinstatement at Australian Iron and Steel, of Donald Parker,…

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Nine Months Gaol Car Dealer Sentenced

National Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. In the Special Federal Court today Vincent Guilla[?] (53), car dealer, was sentenced to nine months' hard labor under the…

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Kiosk Murder Big Force of Police on Case

National Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY. Friday: Fifteen detectives have been concentrated on the hunt for the murderer of Mrs. land Wicks, whose battered and strangled body…

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Assault on Maori Woman

National Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

AUCKLAND. Friday: Within the past 36 hours, two assaults have been made on Maori women. When crossing a busy Auckland street, Helena…

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Police Hunt for Murderer Sydney

Central Western Daily · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

Fifteen detectives have concentrated on the hunt for the murderer of Mrs. Jane Wicks who was bat[?]red and strangled in her small…

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"Killer" Caldwell Court Martial Adjourned

National Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Forecasting "action in another jurisdictoin", Mr. J. E. Cassidy today secured the adjournment of the general court…

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Isolated Pine Rocks, Springside Cut Off From Ambulance, Police Delay Could Have Serious Results in Emergency

Central Western Daily · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

Lack of telephonic communication at Pine Rocks and Springside could easily lead to death or aggravation of illness, or Injury, Orange ambulance officials said yesterday. The officials said that it is only by luck that there have not…

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Impudent Lithgow Theft

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

Two men were seen [?]ing Tearle's novelty shop, at 60 Main-street, by the back door on Friday night, after approximately £8 had been stolen…

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German Police Complimented London

Central Western Daily · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 1

A court in Cologne complimented Gorman police on the conduct of an investigation which led to the sentencing to death yesterday of…

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Ex-magistrate's Death

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Mr. John Laidlaw (71). retired stipendiary basis trade collapsed and died at North Sydney today…

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Heavy Gaol Sentences Bathurst Men Convicted for Stealing and Receiving Wholesale Thefts of Bicycles Alleged

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

What the prosecutor (Sergeant Newland) described as a part by two men to steal and sell bicycles led to heavy sentences being…

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Jap Officers to Die Murder of Pows

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

LABUAN, Monday: Hundreds of houses in England and Australian were empty of loved ones because of iniquitous massacres perpetrated by…

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Arrest in Kiosk Murder Case Police Apprehend Young Man at Mountain Centre Court Appearance Today

National Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police investigating the finding of a woman's body in a tobacco kiosk in York-street, City, on January 2, arrested a man today at a well-known holiday resort on the Blue…

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Murder Goes on London

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

Austrian secret police arrested a doctor and eight nurses, of a mental hospital on the outskirts of Vienna on a charge of murdering 369…

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Fiendish Chicago Murder Chicago

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

Coroner A. L. Brodie, stated an Autopsy showed that six-year-old Suzanne Dignan, who was kidnapped, and murdered, was probably raped…

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£100 FINE Excess Price Charged for Car

National Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Albert Joseph Easterbrook, of Darlinghurst, manager of a used car sales depot, was fined £100 in the special Federal Court…

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Lithgow Police Cases

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

Having taken part in a fight at Hoskins Memorial Institute on December 19. while very drunk, Kenneth Thompson (26), was fined £2,…

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Cricket Self Help Defeats Police

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

Employees of the Self Help Stores and the Police locked horns at cricket on the Donnybrook wicket on Sunday, with Self Help gaining a…

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Police Force Resignations Promotion System Criticised

National Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday Because of [?] discontent in the NSW police force [?] pay conditions and the recently introduced system unless which…

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Long Remand in Kiosk Murder Charge Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

Douglas Ronald. Morris, 26, journalist, was charged at the Central police court to-day with having murdered Mrs. Jean Wicks,…

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