Son Charged with Murder Verdict of Not Guilty SYDNEY
The trial was concluded yesterday of Noel John Westwood, aged 19 years on a charge of having murdered his father, John Thomas Westwood It…
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Courts & crime, 1932
522 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 21 of 27
Police Win
It is stated that at least a dozen gangs of motor bandits have been captured within the past two months in London, and the police are now…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Found a Watch Sentenced to Three Months Released As First Offender
Charged with larceny by finding of a wristlet watch, Thomas Huggett, a Forbes man, told Magistrate Arnold on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Jumping the Rattler” and Using Offensive Language. a Traveller Charged
Before Messrs. T. Brooke and H. D. Pulling Js.P., on Thursday morning a man named Henry Dowsey (42) who was a stranger to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jury Disagree Sen Changed with Murder (By'wire). Sydney
A Melbourne message states: The jury failed to agree in the change against Waiter Henderson for the alleged murder of his mother at Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell In? Employer in Court "Gave Men a Chance" But Must Pay Extra
In the Industrial Magistrate's Court at Forbes last Tuesday, Rex Charles J. Wheatley, a drover, of Forbes, and Arthur George…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Footbridge Fracas Is Finished In Court Parties Tell Opposing Stories of First Blow Man Fined £5
Bertie Harold Rutter and Thomas Charles Hudson, both of Forbes, had a disagreement at the footbridge over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempted Burglary
A daring attempt at burglary was enacted about midnight on Sunday (says Friday's "Express") when a man broke into the chemist shop in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cowra’s New Police Chief Sergt. D. W. Doolan, of Gilgandra
We were informed from Sydney yesterday afternoon by Major A. D. Reid M.L.A. that Sergt. (D. W. Doolan, of Gilgandra. who has the rank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£2,450 INVOLVED Charge Against Master of Supreme Court (By Wire) Sydney
A message from Adelaide states that the Master of the Supreme Court Mr. W. L. Stuart, has been charged with fraudulent disposal of bonds,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court P.P. Board Prosecutions
At the local police court on Wednesday last, before, Police Magistrate C. A. Arnold, Martin Jackson, sheep drover, was fined 10-, with 8 costs,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Sheep Stealing Five Accused Men Discharged
At the local police court on Wednesday last, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. C. A. Arnold), five men were each charged that at Euglo each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Persons Drowend Man Charged with Murder
The Adelaide police early on Monday morning recovered from the Torrens Lake the bodies of Ethel Wright aged 17 fears, and Jack Levere, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railwayman Sentenced to Three Months Convicted Railway Employee Attempted Stealing Charge Sentenced to Three Months
Reginald Joseph Thomas Moulden, a railway employee, and one of Parkes' best-known residents, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor at the Parkes Police Court on Wednesday on a charge of attempting to steal from the Transport Commissioners a tin of paint valued at four shillings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STEALING. From Farmhouses. Young Man Convicted
A young man named George Henry Hogan, one of the wandering hobo type, found a new means which looked like making his life…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Criminal History" Young Man Sentenced Took a Cycle
A young man named Thomas Egan, a stranger to Forbes, and one who was revealed to possess "quite a criminal history," was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Peacemaker Arrested But Magistrate Discharges Him Two Farmers Fined
John Francis Feeney and C. B. Watson, two Ooma soldier settlers, who are related by marriage, got into "holts" last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Touring Wrestler Confesses To Theft of Motor Cycle and Petrol QUANDIALLA, Wed
Arrested at Quandialla on charges of stealing a motor cycle from Parramatta, and petrol from Quandialla, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →S.P, BETTING. Twelve men Fined. Police Raid at Parkes
Starting price betting on the Randwick races was proceeding merrily at Eric Barrie Ralston's Billiard saloon in Clarinda Street…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Touring Wrestler. Confesses to Theft of Motor Cycle and Petrol
Arrested at Quandialla on charges of stealing a motor cycle from Parramatta, and petrol from Quandialla, a young man named Charles William…
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