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

Courts & crime, 1932

522 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 17 of 27

KIDNAPPED. Three Children. Police Uninterested. Sydney

Western Champion · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 6

The police state that they have no further interest in the case in which three children were picked up in a motor car…

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Must Serve Gaol Sentence New Guard Assault SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 1

The Minister for Justice, Mr. L. O. Martin, said to-day after carefully considering the petition for the release of certain New Guardsmen…

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Old-Age Pensioner Charged with Assault Man's Wife Saves Him From Fury of Attack Court Story

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 3

Though Charles R. Kerr, an elderly Forbes man, entered what amounted to a plea of not guilty when charged with…

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Magistrate Knows Studs

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 4

Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M., who occupied the Bench at Forbes Court last Tuesday, knows something of stud farming. During the course of a case…

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MURDER. Triple Tragedy. SYDNEY

Western Champion · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 6

The C.I.B. received word this morning that two women, whose names are unknown, had been shot dead In Glover Street,…

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POLICE v HEIDTMAN

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 1

A similar charge was preferred against Rupert Heidtman, for using indecent language near the Masonic Hall, West Wyalong, on 26th June…

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P.M.FAREWELLED By Civil Servants and Solicitors Promoted to Stipendiary Magistrate

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 5

After the business of the West Wyalong Police Court had been finalised on Wednesday last, members of the civil service and legal profession…

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Saddler Fined for Being Drunk. Remanded on Stealing Charge. Sergt. Burke Refuses to Accept His Horse and Sulky As Security for Bail

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 1

A man named Michael Phayer (43) whose face is not an unfamiliar one at the Cowra Police Court, appeared before…

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Soviet Demonstration In Sydney Domain Police Menaced by Crowd (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 1

The Friends of the Soviet Union held a demonstration in the Sydney Domain yesterday to protest against the amendments to the Crimes Act…

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Serious Affray at Cairns Between Unemployed and Police Reds With Sinister Weapons (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 1

A message from Cairns States: One hundred were injured, several seriously, in a desperate encounter between a number of…

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Railway Employee Committed for Trial Charged with Attempted Stealing

Western Champion · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 5

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr C. A. Arnold, P.M., a railway employee, Reginald Joseph Thomas Moulden, was charged with having been on railway property for an Illegal purpose. Later the charge was amended, defendant being…

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Dismissed Charge of Stealing Unsatisfactory Identification

Western Champion · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 11

A case halted suddenly at the Police Court yesterday before M r. C. A. Arnold, P.M., when Edward Walter Clarke was charged with stealing a pick, the property of Gustav William linger. Before evidence further than that of defendant was…

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MURDER. Gooma Horror Search for Suspect Sydney

Western Champion · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 8

A strong force of police, under Detective-Segeant McCrac, is searching the hills round Cooma to-day for the murderer of Mrs…

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Boy's Death Man Charged with Murder SYDNEY

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 1

The inquest has opened at Newcastle on George Lawrence Falconer aged 10 commonly known as George Innes, who according to evidence…

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Cooma Murder Suspect Found Hanged

Cowra Free Press · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 1

Remarkable because of its callousness, a brutal murder was committed at Cooma, on Wednesday. The victims were Mrs. Haiu (40)…

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Man with a Record Pleads Guilty to Stealing a Leather Knife. Fine of £5 Is Imposed

Cowra Free Press · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 2

Remanded on Monday last, on a charge of stealing a leather knife, valued at 7/6, the property of William A. Markham,…

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Three Bank Clerks Convicted of Stealing £5099

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1932 · page 5

At the Sydney quarter Session before Judge Edwards, Stuart Charles McLean, 41, Horace John Finn, 49, and Frank Phibbs 42 were convicted…

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Woman Sentenced To Gaol Convicted of Stealing Offence To Be Sentenced On Other Charges

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1932 · page 3

BEFORE she was sentenced to one month s hard labor at Forbes Court for stealing £1153 from Mrs. E. E. Garn[?]ey on July 23, Mrs. Ray Smith (alias Hamilton) was the centre of a case which possessed some extraordinary features…

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Police Court Quandialla Cases Stealing Conviction Costly Duty Stamp QUANDIALLA, Wednes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1932 · page 6

Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., at the Quandialla Police Court, George Quinn was charged with having in his possession…

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Into the Gates of Gaol

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1932 · page 4

An obliging sort of man was one who was lined 28 or the rising of the Court for drunkenness last Tuesday. Evidence of the police was that…

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