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

Courts & crime, 1948

240 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 8 of 12

Quarter Sessions an District Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 1

Judge Berne will preside at the Quarter Sessions and District Court to be held at Wyalong on Tuesday next,…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 2

At the Court held at Condobolin on the 7th inst., before Mr. H. G. Cobley, S. M., quite a number of cases were listed, some of…

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Sessions and District Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 19 July 1948 · page 2

Judge Berne will preside at the Wyalong Quarter Sessions and District Court on Wednesday morning of this week…

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Car-Bike, Crash, Boy's Arm Broken, Police Charge Dismissed

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 2

At the close of the case for the Crown, Mr. Finlay, S.M., at the West Wyalong Petty Sessions yesterday, dismissed a charge of negligent driving against…

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A Tenancy Case at Forbes Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 3

Mr. R. O. Palmer appeared for Thomas N. Samuels in a case brought at the local Police Court on Tuesday under Section 30a of the National…

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Rabbits Increasing Prosecutions at Forbes Court Landholders Fined

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 3

Six district landholders were fined at Forbes Police Court on Tuesday on charges of failing to destroy rabbits on their properties…

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Stock Removed From Forbes Municipal Pound Matter in Hands of Police

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

In a report to last night's Council meeting the impounding officer, Mr. J. P. Rath, dealt with the unlawful release of a number of head…

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Young Couple on Murder Charge

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 1

A married couple named Mason, were charged in Sydney to-day with the murder of a yong child, which was…

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Mixed Doubles At Town Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

A mixed doubles tennis tourney will be held at the West Wyalong town courts on Sundays next. Secretary Don Paton…

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Judge Berne Was Sorry; Had to Give Man 2 Years' Gaol for Bigamy

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 2

Judge Berne, who is well known in West Wyalong, sentencing a bigamist to years' gaol at the Wagga Quarter Sassions, said it was very much against his…

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Hotel Theft Two Men Arrested

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 1

Following on investigations into the theft of a cigarette lighter, wristlet watch, hat and a mantle clock from the Metropolitan Hotel,…

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Charged With Posing as Doctor At Wagga

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

A man was chained before the Wagga Police Court under the Medical Practitioners' Act with posing as a doctor the…

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Sentenced

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1948 · page 2

NUREMBERG.—An American War Crimes Tribunal has sentenced Alfred Krupp von Bohle[?] Und. Halbach, owner of the…

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Stealing Charges One Man Sentenced to Six Months Other Adjournments

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 1

On a charge of having stolen a clock and hat from the Metropolitan Hotel, Forbes, about July 10, Frank E. Taylor, a Parkes resident,…

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Court Cases

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

At the Court held at Condobolin last Wednesday, before Mr H. G. Cobley, S.M., quite a number of cases were listed. The case…

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Riverina Police Sergeant's Death

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 6

A former Wagga Police Sergeant, who was found at the [?]ear of the Corowa police station with a budet wound…

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Police Clean Up Drunks Agatha Becomes Argumentative

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

At the Court held last Wednesday quite a number of persons were fined for indulging in intoxicating liquor. Agatha Goolagong,…

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Police Boys Team Will Attend Wyalong Dance

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 2

It is understood that the Police Boys' Rugby League football team from Sydney, which will play the Half-Moons…

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Court Test of R.S.L. Attitude To Communists

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 5

"[?] Communist is automatically a traitorous person and is dis oyal to the British Commonwealth of Nations," Mr. Gordon…

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Police Court

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1948 · page 2

At the Police Court yesterday Frederick Gee proceeded against John Lowe—unlawful assault. Defendant convicted and in…

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