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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 9 of 88

Bathurst Circuit Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 2

Next sitting of the Bathurst Supreme Court a special sitting, will be held at the local Court House commencing on February. 17, when what…

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Brisbane Murder Case Accountant Pleads Not Guilty

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: The police court was packed when Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, accountant, (49), pleaded not guilty to a charge…

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Echo of Partially- Clad Girl’s Murder; Brisbane

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 2

Wingfield Spence Brown, accountant. 49, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering Bronia Mary Armstrong. 19,…

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Six Months’ Gaol for Ian in Suggested Acid-throwing Case Sydney

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 2

Frederick Robert Wood, 37, french polisher, denied in the Burwood Court today that he had offered £1000 to Michael…

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Drover Fined When Police “Raced” Owner

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 3

Arthur Harpley, drover, who was taking a flock of sheep into Temora, along the Junee Road, at about 6.20 p.m. on…

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Another Drunken Driver Convicted at Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 1

Mervy Charles Hazell (32), laborer, pleaded guilty at Bathurst court yesterday to driving a motor car in Stewart Street, Bathurst, on February 1…

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High Court Marshal “Arrests” Ship in Sydney Harbor

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY. Monday. — A warrant was issued out of the High Court today for the arrest of the 7,000-ton…

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Civilians Leaving Palestine Court Move to Delay Execution of Terrorist

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: The evacuation of non-essential British subjects from Palestine began last night, when the first party of women and children left…

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Brisbane Murder Case Police Evidence About Blood Stains Brisbane, Tuesday

National Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 1

When he examined Reginald Wingfield Brown's office he found dark stains resembling bloodstains spattered about the room, sold Det.-Sgt…

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£2800 Involved in Theft Charge

National Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Following investigations of a report of accounts by the treasurer of the Australian Natives' Association, police last…

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More Consumers Charged for Water Offences

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 1

"The inspectors are still on the job, but they are not finding it so easy to catch offenders now that there…

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Shipboard Parly Set Captain Blowing “Police Wanted” Signal SYDNEY

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 1

Four blasts on the siren and the hoisting of the “Police Wanted” s[?]gnal at the mast of the British naval supply ship,…

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Tale of a Wallet Lawson Park Episode Men Charged With Stealing

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 11

At the Mudgee Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Hart, P.M., Thomas Bernard Fox and Horace Raymond Pauling were charged…

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Visiting Hoodlums Fines at Bathurst Police Court

National Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 1

They are of the hoodlum type and came to Bathurst yesterday from Sydney, and were trying to take charge of the city. They had been drinking…

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Alleged Theft of Motor Cycle

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 3

Reginald Ernest Baggs, 20, and Alick Clive Richards, 20, fitter, appeared before Mr. Hart, P.M., at Lithgow police court yesterday on a…

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Stealing Charge Postal Notes Disappear Accused Committed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 15

At the Mudgee Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Hart. P.M., John McHool Hillhouse was charged with stealing postal notes…

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Wants Intake Dog to Gaol Brisbane

National Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 1

"If I go to gaol, I am going to take my. dog, with me,'" said Ellen Agnes Mulhplland, a middleaged single woman, of Flower Street, Northgate,…

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Brisbane Murder Case Doctor's Evidence

National Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: A witness in the case in which Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown is charged with the murder of Bronia Mary…

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Doctor’s Evidence in Murder Charge

Central Western Daily · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday. —Dr. Sherwood Arthur Horsman said in the Brisbane Police Court today…

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Police Fighting for Rights

National Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 2

Sergeant J. Driscoll, general president of the NSW police Association, accompanied by the association's secretary, Mr. F. Laut, attended a…

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