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

Courts & crime, 1947

1,759 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 88

Telegraphist on Murder Charge Sydney

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 4

Arthur Redvers Hayne, 47, telegraphist, was today committed for trial on a charge of having murdered his wife…

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Another Train Assault Two Youths Charged

National Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Two youths who allegedly criminally assaulted a 14-years-old girl on Canberra railway station last Monday…

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Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

Next meeting of Bathurst Police Court is set down for Tuesday, January 28 at 10 am…

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Britain's Losses On Police Service LONDON

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

Some idea of the cost of the British policing of Palestine was cusclosed by the Colonial Secretary in the House of…

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Pay Rise for Police New Award Announced

National Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A new agreement on pay and conditions of police, other than commissioned officers was announced today by the…

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Alleged Theft of Union Funds

National Advocate · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Charged with having stolen £131 from the AW between January 1941, and December 1944, Joseph Carpendale (59)…

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Poundkeeper Charged By "Wild" Bull

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

Charged by a wild bull on the Portland Meadow Flat Road, late yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. P. Fitzgerald, Blaxland Shire pound keeper, was forced to make a hasty retreat on horseback. While patrolling the district, Mr…

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Local Arrest in Alleged Sydney Car Theft

Central Western Daily · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

A man was arrested in Orange yesterday and charged with stealing a motor car in…

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Police Disperse Demonstrators Sydney Incidents

National Advocate · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Two mass demonstrations were staged in Sydney today: at the offices of the Prices Commission in pitt Street in protest…

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District Court Case From Glen Davis

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

Before his Honor, Judge Shortland, in the District Court this morning, Robert Adam Don Roth, of Mudgee sued Frederick James Milgate,…

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Husband Stabbed Wife Charged SYDNEY, Friday

National Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

Accused of having stabbed her husband in the shoulder with a boot knife Grace Mary Roach, 22. was remanded at Newtown Court today…

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Court of Inquiry Set Up in England

National Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Friday: The report of the court of inquiry set up to deal with the claims of the British road transport workers, has now been issued in…

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Man's Reference to Cemetery Murder Police Drop Inquiries

National Advocate · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY. Sunday: Police investigations early this morning into a report by a taxi driver that a man whom he drove to Newtown cemetery, a…

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Girl's Death Man on Murder Charge

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: The charge of wilful murder against 49-years old accountant. Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, will be heard in the City…

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The Mudie Murder Trial London

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

A bank clerk told the West London Police Court when Searing of the charges of murder against the former N.S.W. Minister of Justice,…

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Police Pay Rise Attracts Recruits SYDNEY, Monday

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

Candidates for the police force have increased in numbers since the rise in police pay was announced. A police officer said today that since…

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Youth Tells Police of His Car-stealing

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 7

Bordering on the fantastic was the story told by de[?] Clive Smedley. Russell Street [?] after he had arrested a…

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Hotel Assault

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

Following an alleged fracas in the Hotel Lithgow on January 11, Stanley Wilfred Harradine proceeded against John Gladstone Roberts on…

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Theft of Typewriters

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday: When the Dulwich Hill home science school reopened this morning it was discovered that 30 typewriters had been stolen…

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Lithgow Hawker Committed Alleged Stealing From Railways

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

At the conclusion of lengthy evidence submitted by the prosecution against Vincent Joseph, hawker, of Tank-street, who appeared in…

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