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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 7 of 88

Police Close Bar

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

KEMPSEY, Tuesday: The bar at the Frederickton regatta was closed by police after a brawl in which a detective and a constable were…

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Master Butchers Fined Blackmarketing Activities, Says Magistrate SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

"Although they have given various excuses, there is no doubt in my mind that the money which these people have failed to account for…

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76-Years-old Man Charged with Ill-treating a Horse B

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

A 76-years-old mail was charged before the Orange Court yesterday wills cruelly ill-treating a horse by flogging it with a stirrup Pather…

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Charged Attempted Murder: Man Died in Gaol SYDNEY

Central Western Daily · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 1

Austin Rhoden. 23. who had been charged with the attempted murder of his wife, died in the observation cell at Long Bay Gaol…

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Alleged Indecent Assault Accused Acquitted Jury's Short Retirement

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 15

At the Mudgee Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, before Judge Shortland, Constantine Mavromatis, was charged with, on August 13, having…

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Aftermath of Police Sergeant’s Chase

Central Western Daily · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

When He appeared before the Orange Children’s Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a horse and sulky valued at £50, a…

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District Court Shire's Claim For Rates

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 13

Judge Shortland presided at the District Court on Tuesday last, when the Cudgegong Shire Council proceeded against the Mudgee…

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Mrs. Livesey in Court Again Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 6

Mrs. Florence Ethel Livesey was present in the Supreme Court today to give evidence before the Deputy Prothonotary (Mr. Walker) who is…

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Police Said Railway Watchman Was “Under the Influence”

Central Western Daily · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 1

You have betrayed the trust placed in you as an employee of the Railway Commissioner, and I have very little sympathy for you. Because this is your first…

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£1000 Offer to Throw Acid Court Allegation SYDNEY

National Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

Frederick Robert Wood, 37, french polisher, had offered a man £1000 to throw sulphuric acid into the eyes of his wife and her man friend, a…

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Sale of Refrigerator Breach Of Warranty Claimed District Court Case

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 10

At the Mudgee District Court [?] Wednesday, before Judge Shorthand, Christopher Edward [?] proceeded against Matron Camp[?]…

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Youth Fined At Molong Police Court

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

Phillip Fogarty, Market Street Molong, was fined 10/- with 8/- court costs at Molong Police Court yesterday, for behaving in an indecent…

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Alleged Assault on Child

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

In the Children's Court, at Portland this morning before two Justices of the Peace a railway employee, stationed at Cullen Bullen,…

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Technicality Stops Rabbbit Prosecutions. Irregular Summonses at Molong Police Court

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

Because of a technical irregularity in the summons, sheet, Police Magistrate W. K. Earls refused to deal with three…

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Orton Park Stealing Two Young Men Convicted at Bathurst

National Advocate · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

"There is too much breaking and entering these days, and it will have to stop sooner or later. You cannot go out in the city and leave your…

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Gang Warfare Feared After Melb. Murder

Central Western Daily · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Melbourne’s “Chinatown” has been subjected to an intense search by a large…

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Portland Co-op Refused Liquor Licence. Magistrate's Candid Comment On Position

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

Refusing an application for a liquor licence made by Reginald John Lowe, on behalf of the Portland Co-operative Society in the Lithgow Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. Bliss, Licensing Magistrate, said there was more liquor going into Portland now than during the war…

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Remand to Next Court

National Advocate · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2

Reginald and Keith Williams, were charged before Judge Shortland, at Bathurst Quarter Sessions yesterday, with assaulting Herbert Daniel…

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Not Guilty Assault on Bathurst Girl. Bathurst Man Acquitted at Quarter Sessions

National Advocate · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1

At the Bathurst Quarter Sessional yesterday before His Honor, Judge Shortland, and a Jury, Albert Howarth, a laborer, of Bathurst, well…

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Lost-his License Kelso Man Admits Being Under the Influence. Bathurst Magistrate on Drunken Drivers

National Advocate · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1

A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor, lost hsi driver's licence for 12 months in Bathurst…

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