Court Puzzled by Youths who Steal for no Definite Purpose
Youths and boys who steal the property of others, and are then unable to explain the urge to steal, have Mr. L. E. C. Luff, Chamber Magistrate, puzzled. Cases…
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Courts & crime, 1947
246 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 11 of 13
Old Offenders Sent to Gaol at Forbes Yesterday Charges of Stealing and Receiving
Thomas Lynch, a middle-aged man, was charged in the Forbes Court of Fetty Sessions yesterday, with stealing an alarm clock from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →P.P. Act Breaches Fines in Forbes Court Yesterday
Charges of permitting stock to trespass were preferred in the Forbes Court of Petty Sessions yesterday (Thursday) against two…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Believes Plane Was "Milked" Dr. Young's Statement to Police Cause of Forced Landing at Lawson
IN another portion of this issue mention is made of the forced landing which Dr. G. L. Young, of Forbes, was forced to make at Lawson on Tuesday afternoon while flying one of his own 'planes from Forbes to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Daring Theft Five Bales of Cornsacks Removed
Some time during the week-end a daring theft was committed at the Forbes railway from on open shed walled in with galvanised…
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At the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions before Messrs J. B. Ryan and I. Punton J'sP, two young men, John Keegan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allowed Bail of £200 On Assault and Robbery Charge
At the Court of Petty Sessions, Condobolin, before Mr. H. G. Cobley, S.M., Trevor Morris, drover, aged 19, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Steed Has "Had It"
It is stretching it a bit too far to expect a police constable to patrol a big district on horse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One Furious Hour St. Nazaire Assault Recalled
Recently the French Prime Minister unveiled it granite column in St. Nazaire Harbour in memory of the famous raid in March. 1942, by the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Week-end List An Old Offender
Before Mr. R. J. Rummery, C.P.R., in the Forbes Police Court on Saturday, Frederick Egan (57), who had many convictions against him, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police on Lookout For City Sharks in Wheat Towns Men Driven Out of Moree
A Moree message of Saturday says that three Sydney two-up sharks arrived there by train on Friday morning. They were on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Betting Man Lands £20 Fine Foods Act Case
When Henry Francis Bede Gavin asked for time to pay a £20 One on a charge of betting in the Post Office Hotel, Forbes, the Bench…
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The monthly sitting of the West Wyalong Petty Sessions Court, will be held on Thursday next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Asked to Enforce Weethalle Speed Limit
Bland Shire Council will request the police to enforce the 30 miles per hour speed limit at Weethalle in the interests of the public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Wear Glamour Suits
West Wyalong Police are now parading in their new "g[?] our" suits, first to break the ice being Constable John Ginty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Petty Sessions Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.M.
Thomas Sliney Sheehan, aged 31, schoolteacher, pleaded guilty to the charge that, on or about the 22nd July, 1947, at Condobolin, he did steal 48 tins of Nestle's Powdered Milk, of the value of £9121, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heard in Court
There were a number of flashes of humor at the West Wyalong Petty Sessions and Mining Court last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Warning To Strangers Who Wander at Night
Strangers who wander about licensed premises, peeping in bedrooms in the early hours of the morning, without money to pay for accommodation, can find…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Private Mining Fued Must Not Be Aired in Court, Warden Says
Mention of a private fued between two mining men, suggestion of "claim-jumping"; refusal by a witness to answer a question, and an allegation that authorities to enter land for the purpose of prospecting for tin, were highlights of proceedings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Trap Dr.BECKER (By Wire) Sydney
The notorious Nazi leader in Australia, Dr. Johannes Heinrich Becker, for Whom Commonwealth Investigation Officers have been searching for more than…
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