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

Courts & crime, 1953

1,370 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 69

Woman Allowed Bond Theft From Stores

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A mother apparently kept watch while her 11-year-old daughter stole articles in city stores yesterday police prosecutor Sgt…

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House Inspector Found Guilty Of Assault

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 2

A Housing Commission inspector entered a Commission home at Bowenfels on official business and then assaulted…

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Prelude To Xmas Murder Broadcast

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon. Events in the last tram trip of Shirley Butler (21) a few hours before she was found…

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Thursday's Court

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 2

Tomorrow's sitting of the Bathurst police Court is expected to last the whole day as defended drunken driving and negligent driving charges are…

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Alleged Murder Plot by Doctors Soviet Charge

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 4

MOSCOW, Tuesday: Moscow Radio today broadcast claims that Soviet authorities had broken up a medical assassination plot…

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Traffic Gases Before Court

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 2

Four motorists--three of them from Lithgow--were fined for traffic offences by the Stipendiary Magistrate…

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Police Boys' Club Bathurst Membership Increases

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 4

Active membership of the Bathurst Politice-Citizens Boys Club during 1952, increased to 350, the Superintendent of the Club, Constable W. Riley,…

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Glen Davis Theft

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 20

Detectives from Lithgow are investigating the theft of more than £100 worth of scrap metal from the shale…

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Guard on Equipment Glen Davis Theft

National Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 6

LITHGOW, Wednesday: Police and National Oil Company employees will guard huge stocks of shale oil equipment lying at Glen Davis,…

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Woman May Provide New Murder Clues

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon. -- Homicide detectives said today they had received an important new lead in the Shirley Butler murder case after a special radio broadcast last night…

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Murder Appeal Fails New Zealand Case

National Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday: The judicial committee of the Privy Council yesterday refuseda New Zealander special leave to appeal against a murder…

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More Arrests Expected Police Purge Demand

National Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: Russia's disclosure of a "terrorist" group found inside the Kremlia has been followed up by front page edito[?]ls in every…

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Missing Man Believed Alive Police Inquiries

National Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Detectives inquiring Into the disappearance of a Queensland business man have received information indicating that he…

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Police Force Bate M.P. Answers Premier

Central Western Daily · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 1

Efficient enforcement of the law in New South Wales was impossible as long as…

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Murder Charge

Central Western Daily · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 8

A 27-year-old laborer appeared in Wellington Court last week on a charge or murdering his…

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Molong Man Charged with Offensive Behaviour

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 2

A Molong man was charged at Molong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with behaving in an offensive…

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Wardens Court

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 2

Two wardens court applications were dealt with by Mr. Dash, SM, at Bathurst court yesterday Authority was granted to Lucknow Alluvials…

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Court Hours Last Year

Central Western Daily · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 2

Mr. C. W. English S.M., held 106 courts during 1952 and sat on the bench for 400 hours and…

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Traffic Cases at Molong Court

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 2

As the result of a recent blitz on motorists at Molong several cases were before Molong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. The blitz was carried out by…

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Second Woman Juror Supreme Court Case

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday: The State's second woman juror—the mother of the first—was called to serve at the Supreme Court today…

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