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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

510 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 14 of 26

Police Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 2

that district. I know that my business can be as it was a few years ago. I expect that to be within two years. If an order for sale was made…

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Noxious Weeds. Landholder Fined. Police Court Case

Western Champion · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 7

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M., Matthew Blackburn was proceeded against by the Goobang Shire…

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FINED £50 Bogus Doctor Before Court. Simpson's Awful Police Record

Western Champion · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 12

A cultured, gentlemanly-looking man, with grizzled hair and a ple[?]ant expression, and neatly attired in a navy blue suit, sat in the dock at the Police Court yesterday morning, and to the uninitiated it would seem that some professional man was merely taking an airing…

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Ton of Hay Man Convicted on Stealing Charge. Costly Fodder for Evans

Western Champion · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 10

When Frederick Walter Evans helped himself to a ton of hay belonging to Veterinary Surgeon Warby, at South Parkes, he probably thought that he was getting it at considerably below market rates. Unfortunately, the long arm of the law seized him, and the hay will…

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Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before Mr. Bromhead, P.m.) Moratorium Act. Mrs. S. R. HORE v. A. Southwell. for Leave to Exercise Power of Sale

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 2

Mr. Weaver for applicant, and Mr. Harney for respondent. Sybil Rosamund Hore deposed: I am the wife of Reginald Richard…

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Warden's Court. Tuesday. (Before Mr. Bromhead, P.M.)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 2

T. E. Brown.—Authority cancelled for non-compliance with labor conditions. V. R. Bell.—Suspension labor…

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ADJOURNED On Stealing Charge Case of A Saddle

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 June 1931 · page 1

Archie Nicholls, a Calarie man, charged with stealing one saddle, the property of C. P. Heffernan, on December 1, 1930, appeared at…

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Producers' Roll Now on View Ungarie Police Station

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 5 June 1931 · page 1

We have been, asked to state that preliminary lists of producers whom it is proposed to enrol are now avail able and may be inspected at the…

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Alleged Intent to Murder Case at Culcairn (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 5 June 1931 · page 1

John Lynn, aged 42, farm laborer, was remanded at culcairn Police Court on a charge of administering poison with intent to murder Alfred…

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MORATORIUM Applies in Wheat Case District Court Application

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 5 June 1931 · page 4

After the Jury, under direction of His Honor, Judge Thompson, had returned a verdict for plaintiffs for the full amount claimed in the case…

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Man Charged. By Maddened Bullock

Western Champion · Monday 8 June 1931 · page 5

Frank Toomey, of Park street, Flemington, a cattle classer, employed by Dalgety and Company, was seriously injured on Thursday morning…

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Two Charges Murder and Attempted Murder

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 1

A statement in which Charles Eldridge, aged 26, steward, was alleged to have admitted to the police having murdered his step-father, Matthles…

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Gaol for Dole Frauds

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 2

At the Albury' Police Court, John Clarke (21) was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment without the option of a fine for obtaining rations by…

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Potential Murder Crime with Firearms

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 4

The Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street and Mr. Justice Ferguson, said, in the Full Court of Criminal Appeal, that every man who committed a robbery…

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Receiving Charge Two Men Sentenced Sequel to Safe Robbery

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 1

At Goulburn Quarter Sessions, Ernest Hillman and Frank Bailey were charged with having received at Queanbeyan certain money knowing it…

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Optometry in Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 1

At the inquiry at Griffith into the death of Lester Harold Zerbst, aged 22, who was killed when his cycle collided with a motor truck, the police…

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Prisoner Whipped In Precincts of Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 1

Stanley Henry Hancock (19) was whipped at the Brisbane Supreme Court on the order of Mr. Justice Henchman. Hancock had pleaded…

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"Gun" Not a Revolver. Full Court's Reminder

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 12 June 1931 · page 7

The use of "gun" as a word describing all fire arms was deprecated in the Full Court, Sydney. 'I wish that you would use the…

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Tale of the Saddle Dispute Comes to Court Defendant Convicted and Fined

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 June 1931 · page 4

THIS is the story of three men and a dog--also, a saddle, one of the men is dead, so is the dog. But the offspring of the latter play an unconscious part in the unravelling of the tangled skein which makes the story. Then there is the…

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Strange Visitor. Possum and Police

Western Champion · Monday 15 June 1931 · page 7

Parkes Police Station had an unusual visitor on Saturday night, when Sergeant Ferris noticed an opossum on the front fence…

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