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

Courts & crime, 1932

522 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 27

Police Court “Jumping the Rattler”

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 1

On Monday morning, a local resident named Len Laundess, was charged before Mr. F. Grugeon, J. P., with having on January 3,…

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Italian Arrested Assault on Consul Alleged Stealing with Violence (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 1

A Cairns message states that Mario Tardianna, 27, an Italian for whom the police in the Ingham district have been seeking since Boxing Day, in…

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Melbourne Crime Amazing Police Story

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

Melbourne.—All echo of the daring daylight hold up at Collingwood on October 16 when two employees of the Commercial Banking Company of…

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GRAZIERS And Federal Pastoral Award Full High Court Case

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

With regard to the published statements that the Graziers' Association has made application to the Commonwealth Arbitration…

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Police Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

By Sergeant Ryan: Did not smell any odor at the meeting; was there all the time; the bottle would not hold sufficient content, to cause…

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Police Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

home afterwards; was in Cross-street when the police spoke to him later on; it might have been a quarter of an hour later; he was speaking to his…

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Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before Mr. Bromhead, P.M.)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

Paul Miller, drunk. Pleaded guilty. Fined £2 or four days' hard labor. William John Spence, driving lorry without license…

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CONVICTED On Stealing Charge Father Against Son

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 5

When Reuben Field, a young Forbes man, stood in the dock at last Tuesday's Court and pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a…

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Acquitted of Stealing Charge Tom Smith's £1 Note Edwards Proves Case

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

Somebody mishandled the truth at last Tuesday's Court, when the case wherein William Edwards was charged by Thomas Bernard…

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Revolvers and Batons Drawn at Woodstock Constable’s Jaw Broken and Teeth Knocked Out Two Young Men Are Fined and Bound Over to Be of Good Behavior for Three Years, While Another Is Sentenced to Six Months’ Gaol, and Ordered to Pay £20, or Go to Gaol for a Month Longer

Cowra Free Press · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

Yesterday was a regular field day at Woodstock Police Court, when the participants in the Xmas Eve disturbance at that centre were called upon to answer a number of charges before Mr. Bromehead, P.M., to most of which they pleaded not…

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Police Report Where Damage Has Been Done

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

At Lake Cargelligo every available man for the past week has been fighting bush fires, reports Sergeant Searson, who, with Constables…

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New Guinea Encounter Natives and Police Clash (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

Mr. H. L. Downing, Assistant District Officer, who arrived in Sydney last night from New Guinea, gives details of an encounter recently…

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CONGRESSMEN Rounded Up by Police Over 100 Arrested (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

A Calcutta message states that a strong force of police rounded up Congressmen and raided party organisations in Bombay at dawn on…

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Stubble Fires. Police Warning

Western Champion · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

On Friday night there was a reflection of a fire in the direction of the London, and a number of persons went out from…

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Brutal Murder. Hindoo Brutally Murdered. LISMORE

Western Champion · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 7

Rham Chund (50), a Hindoo, was brutally murdered at his hut at North Lismore yesterday. Another Indian has been arrested and…

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Forged Tickets Police Action in Victoria

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

Melbourne.—The bead of the C.I.B (Superintendent Walsh) said last week that complaints had now been officially received that forged tickets…

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Murder Is Charge Mastery of W.A. Bones PERTH

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

A sensational development in the mystery of the discovery of human bones on Murchison gold field, occurred when a charge of having…

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Serious Riot in North Police Station Dynamited

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

Darwin—Dynamite was used by a Pine Creek crowd to blow up the police station to release a prisoner who had been arrested for rioting, and a…

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Farmers Charged Under Transport Act

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 8

In the police court at Dubbo, two farmers were charged under the Transport Co-ordination Act with carting wool on an unregistered lorry…

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£5 NOTE Disputed Ownership Echo of Stealing Case

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

At last Tuesday's Court there were two claimants for the £5 note which was the centre of a recent court case, when a man…

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