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

Courts & crime, 1932

522 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 10 of 27

Another Remand Alleged Fowl Stealing

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 9

When the case of Frederick Egan, who is on remand on a charge of stealing five fowls, came up at Tuesday's Court, Sergt. Arentz asked for…

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Police Potest

Cowra Free Press · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 5

At the recent Police Conference, the motion, moved by Mr. Lee (Bathurst), asked that the police at Goulburn and other large centred…

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Charge of Stealing Defendant Convicted One Charge Dismissed

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 7

Before Messrs J. Lee and J. Heffennan, Js.P., at the Ungarie Police Court on Wednesday last, a young man named Con. McMormick, was charged…

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REMANDED Assault and Robbery Charge Bail Reduced to £40

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 1

William James Fairclough and Donald Wallace, two well-known young Forbes men, appeared before Magistrate Arnold last…

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Double Murder Suspect Sighted Shot at by Resident SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 1

A sensational encounter with the man suspected of the doable murder of Frank Bardsley Wilkinson and…

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Results of the High Court Decision

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 4

The decisio of the High Court, for which Australia had been anxiously waiting, was announced on Wednesday of last week. The Court decided, by…

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Police Force Statements by Chiefs (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 1

Mr. McKay, Acting Metropolitan Superintendent of Police, speaking at the Police Association smoke concert last tight, said whatever…

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Big Shooting Sensation at Canowindra Woman Charged with Shooting at Her Husband with Intent to Murder The Husband Declines to Give Evidence Defendant Committed for Trial at Cowra Sessions Next Month Is Admitted to Light Bail

Cowra Free Press · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 7

Considerable Interest was shown In the hearing, at the Police Court at Canowindra, on Tuesday, of a charge preferred against Gladys Isabel Cassidy, of shooting with intent to murder 25. her husband, Norman Henry Cassidy, on the night of March…

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Ex-calare Member In Peculiar Case At Gundagai Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 8

Tom Lavelle, one-time Federal Labor member for Calare, and still well remembered in Forbes, figured both as complainant and…

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Brutal Murders Liverpool Tragedy Police Trailing Suspect (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 1

In the course of their hunt for the man wanted in connection with the murder of Frank Wilkinson and Dorothy Denzel,…

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Clashes with Police Unemployed in N.Z. (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 15 April 1932 · page 1

Messages from Auckland. New Zea land, state that there have been great demonstrations of unemployed throughout that Province, and there…

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Stealing Charge Defendant Bound Over

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 2

Before Mr. E. Harrison, P.M at the West [?] Court on Wednesday last Nathaniel Daniel Wills, of Wyalong was charged with…

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POLICE v STANFORD

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 2

Stanford was further charged with stealing two head lamps and four grease caps the property of John Henry Fraser, to the value of £2 10s…

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POLICE v Stanford and Welsh

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 2

A further charge of stealing a cylinder head, the property of Alfred Carter, of Ungarie was preferred against the same defendants, and they…

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Food Relief. Offender Charged. Young Man's Mistake

Western Champion · Thursday 21 April 1932 · page 15

Nineteen-year-old Walter Gould thought that when he sold a bicycle for £5 and spent the money on clothes and assisting his…

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CAUGHT. Murder Suspect. at French's Forest. Sydney

Western Champion · Thursday 21 April 1932 · page 8

Jumping twenty feet from the rocks, William Moxley, whom the police wish to question regarding the murder of…

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The Tale of a Tent As Told in the Police Court. Charge of Stealing Is Dismissed

Cowra Free Press · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 2

After having been found not guilty on a charge of stealing a horse on Wednesday, Edward Sylvester Stanford was on…

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Assault and Robbery Cases Fairclough Committed For Trial Wallace Discharged Midnight Call for Police

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 6

CHARGED with stealing a leather overcoat, with larceny as a bailee, with assault and robbery, and with assault and robbery in company, William James Fairclough was committed for trial by Magistrate Arnold last Tuesday on the charge of…

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Six Months' Gaol Razor Slashing at Griffith

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 7

At the Narandera Circuit Court, be fore the Chief Justice (Sir Philli Street) Francesco Bartello, an Italian pleaded not guilty to a charge of as…

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Court News

Cowra Free Press · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 3

In presenting his quarterly report at the Licensing Court on Wednesday the Inspector (Sergt. Burke) stated that of the eight local hotels…

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