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

Courts & crime, 1952

1,440 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 19 of 72

Stealing Country Seats. Government Hypocrisy Exposed

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 6

By passing legislation designed to take still further parliamentary seats from country districts the State…

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Police Patrols

National Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 2

Eight extra police constables have been detailed to Bathurst for the Show week-end. They are mostly form surrounding stations and will…

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Monday's Court

National Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 2

Matters set down for Monday's sitting of the Bathurst Court include: Police v. William Godden, drive under the influence, negligent…

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Malan Wins Baffle Over Supreme Court

Central Western Daily · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Thursday,— Prime Minister Malan has won the first round in the South African constitutional battle…

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Court Instructs Tenant and Landlord to Share House Tenancy-ejectment Case at Molong Court

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 2

Molong Court of Petty Sessions, on Thursday of last week' instructed a Molong landlord to share a home in Gidley Street, with a tenant…

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Theft From Garage

National Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 2

A thief or thieves broke into the Sunray Service Station in Durham Street on Thursday night or early' yesterday morning and stole a sum of…

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Boxer Charged with Wounding

National Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE Sunday: A former professional boxer has been charged with having wounded Leonard Lewis with intent to murder him…

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Police Search for Hit-run Lorry Driver

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

Police are trying to trace the driver of a lorry which failed to stop after an accident along Caves-road, four…

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Relieving Magistrate

National Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 2

Mr. A.S. Tunchon S.M. presided at yesterday's sitting of the Bathurst Police Court. He was the relieving magistrate during the latter months…

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Car Stealing Rife

National Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: In the Quarter Sessions in Sydney today. Judge Holden said that the unlawful use of cars had become a grave menace…

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Charged With Intent To Rob Employer

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 2

A local baker, Hector John Cameron, of Clinton Street, appeared at orange Court yesterday on a charge of having broken into the bakery where he was employed with intent to steal…

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King Farouk Wounded In Murder Attempt

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--King Farouk was wounded in the thigh last month during an assassination attempt, a…

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Assault and Robbery Charges: Two Men Committed for Trial

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

At Orange Court yesterday two Orange men were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions next week on a charge of assaulting a new Australian and robbing him of £44…

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Police Hunt Ends in Youths’ Arrest at Blayney

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

Police yesterday arrested two young men at Blayney following an intrusive man hunt throughout southern and Central western N.S.W…

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Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 2

The sitting of the Bathurst Court of Petty Sessions set down for Thursday, May I, has been postponed until the following Monday The…

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Police Check on Missing Dogs

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Police have failed to locate two valuable greyhounds which disappeared from kennels in…

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Remanded Till Next Blayney Court

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 1

At Blayney Court on Tuesday morning James Albert Wiggins (18) and another younger lad, appeared…

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Wide Search Ends at Blayney Police Arrest Two Youths

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 1

A search by police in the central west for two youths alleged to have committed a number of robberies in Sydney, Bathurst, Orange, Blayney and Cowra since last Thursday ended late on Monday afternoon…

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Alleged Assault At Migrant Camp

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

A New Australian employed at Emmco appeared at Orange Court yesterday, charged with having assaulted a migrant fellow-worker at the Orange migrant camp on March 8…

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Police Await Statistics Returns

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 16

Police officers in Gulgong said on Monday of this week that a number of district landholders had not returned…

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