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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 20 of 72

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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Court Hears Dispute Over Share Farming Agreement

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

Hearing of two claims by a farm worker against a Spring Creek property owner, for wages and profits allegedly due under a share-cropping agreement, began before Mr. Justice McKillop in the District Court yesterday. William Henry McCauley, of…

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Steel Seizure Invalid U.S. Court Decision

National Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Wednesday; A Federal judge yesterday ruled that President Truman's seizure of the nation's steel mills was illegal…

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Magistrate Warns New Australians

Central Western Daily · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 1

“You New Australian have just got to learn that in Australia you cannot take the law into your own hands and use brute force just when and how you like,” Mr. English, S.M., warned in Orange Court yesterday…

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Maniac on Murder Charge

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

LONDON, Friday. -- John Straffen, 21-year-old blond maniac, held for the strangling of two little girls, was charged…

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Police Seize Goods Railway Employee Arrested

National Advocate · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 4

LITHGOW. Thursday: Following inquiries into thefts of good from the Railway Department at Lithgow today, railway investigator and police…

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Divorce Petitions At District Court

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 4

Preliminary evidence in four divorce petitions was heard in the Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction by Judge Brennan when…

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Maniac Charged with Third Murder Child Victims

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 6

LONDON, Friday; John Thomas Straffen, 21 years old blond maniac, held for the strangling of two little [?], was charged in Broadmoor…

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Famous Pipe Missing London Theft

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 6

LONDON, Friday: The pipe of of Peter Pan has been stolen. The pipe was taken from Sir James Barrie's famous statue in Kensington Gardens…

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Murder of Aust. Girl U.S. Crime

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 6

NEW YORK, Friday; A coronel's inquest will be held next Thursday into the death of a pretty Australian war bride who was found beaten to…

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Tension in Tokio Police Precautions

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 2

TOKIO, Friday: An uneasy calm lay over Tokio last night as American and Japanese guards wa[?] out a night vigil against a…

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Boys Had Stolen Gelignite Police Action

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 1

LITHGOW, Friday: Police at Lithgow have seized a number of sticks of geligaite which they say pupils of Lithgow High School had…

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Police Chief's Home Entered Randwick Incident

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: This afternoon police c[?] were rushed to the Randwick area to search for a man who was reported to have broken into the…

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Boys Charged With Robbery

National Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Two boys were arrested at Bankstown today and charged on six counts including assault and robbery. They are, aged 13…

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Gaol Rioting Now in Canada

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 1

MONTREAL, Monday.--Hundreds of prisoners looted the canteen and started fires in the chapel and main telephone…

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More Explosives Discovered in Week- End Police Probe

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

Investigations into the sensational prank by High School boys to explode gelignite on Empire Day have taken a startling new turn. Plainclothes police discovered 700 detonators and 40 more sticks of the high explosive in a weekend search of suspected hide- outs in the Lithgow district…

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Theft From Trainer

National Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Thieves stole £300 worth of clothing, jewellery and money from the home of J. L. Munro at Randwick…

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Yesterday’s Court

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 4

Other cases dealt with at the Orange Court yesterday were: David Morris Blowes, of Anson Street, was fined £2 for failure…

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Mining Warden's Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 2

A suspension of labor conditions on P. L. L. 603. Wiseman's Crock was granted to Thomas James Druiti through his agent. William Dongia…

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Police Should Be Good Unionists, Says Inspector

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 3

Men who joined the Police Force had to be prepared to risk their lives in service to the community, but, at the same time, every policeman should join the Police Association and become a…

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