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

Courts & crime, 1944

238 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 12

Show "Visitors" Come into Conflict with Police Local Court Cases

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1944 · page 1

Some "visitors," hardly of the desirable type, who had apparently come here for this week's show, look like being disappointed in their…

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Five Years' Gaol Bendick Murrell Outrage

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1944 · page 1

Mr. Justice Hereon, in the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, expressed regret that there was no plane in the State for the treatment of sex…

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500 Dancers Attend Police Ball Estimated Prof't £400

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1944 · page 2

An estimated profit of £400 from the Police Ball, which was held at West Wyalong on Tuesday night, and was attended by over 500 people, will be…

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Straying Stock 18 Cases Before Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 September 1944 · page 1

Forbes Municipal Council brought no less than 18 charges against local stockowners for allowing their animals to stray within recent weeks, in cases…

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Heavy Penalty for Tax Evasion Cases at Forbes Court Mercer Fined £991

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 September 1944 · page 4

One of the heaviest penalties ever imposed in the Forbes Police Court was recorded yesterday by Mr. G. W. Brown…

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Police Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1944 · page 4

soned 6500; the man power then called them. up, and the staff of three worked part time on rabbit poisoning and trapping up to 15th…

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Police Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1944 · page 4

portions; part of the boundary was in bad order; they could not get netting. Fined £5, court costs 8/, witness'…

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Police Court. Thursday. (Before Mr. W. Bromhead, P.M.)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1944 · page 4

Arthur W. Jones—failing to destroy rabbits. Mr. Moore for defendant, pleading guilty…

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Small Debts Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1944 · page 4

of £50; he further told him McKay's expert would be along and could have a yarn to Hancock; saw the expert; Hancock came in and…

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Small Debts Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1944 · page 4

Tresilian and Dun v. Reginald Les Hancock—claim for balance of amount. Mr. Mollitt for plaintiff, Mr…

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Diamond Fraud Man Gets Year's Gaol (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 14 September 1944 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday Louis Mark Patmoy, aged 37, a second hand dealer, was sentenced to 12 months' goal, after the jury,…

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Police Court Before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M.

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 18 September 1944 · page 2

There was a fairly large list of cases before his Worship the P.M. last Tuesday. Chief ones were as under--not including the…

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Battle for Warsaw Bio Assault by Russians Partisans Menace Germans (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 18 September 1944 · page 1

A message from London states:—The Russians are slowly broadening the crack in the German defences on the east bank of the Vistula, opposite…

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Kerbside Parking Recommended by Forbes Police

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 1

UNLESS objections to the proposal are raised and backed up by solid argument, there is every prospect that central parking will disappear from Forbes streets within the very near future…

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Police Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 4

At the Court of Petty Sessions, at Forbes, on Thursday morning, before the police Magistrate, James Thomas Reardon was charged with being found…

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Three Half-Castes Arrested On Stealing Charges

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 25 September 1944 · page 2

On Saturday three aborigine half-castes (Arthur George Read, Ralph Narden and Joseph Sterling Dargan) were arrested at…

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Revision Court List of Electors Allowed

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 25 September 1944 · page 1

At the Revision Court for Bland Shire Council, which was held at the monthly sitting of the West Wyalong Police Court on Thursday morning,…

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Case Struck Out Detention of Property Claimed Parties Settle Out of Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 25 September 1944 · page 1

When the parties in an action in which Henry William Maxwell was proceeding against Norman Matterson for the alleged detention of a book…

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Again at Parkes Western Police Office

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 28 September 1944 · page 4

The offices of the Western Police Administration District are again at Parkes and as a result the Orange "Advocate" is…

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All Out Assault Against Budapest New Attack by Reds (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1944 · page 1

A message from London states: —The Red Army has opened a heavy attack over a 100 miles front in south eastern Hungary…

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