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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Police Force of 200,000 for Soviet Zone

North West Champion · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

BERLIN, Wednesday (AAP)—Britain's Military Governor in Germany, General Sir Brian Robertson, told a Press Conference…

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Russia Plans Large Police Force For Germany BERLIN

The North Western Courier · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

The Russians have planned a police force of 200,000 men in the Soviet Zone of Germany, armed with mortars, heavy machine guns, and armoured cars, but no effort to develop militarily armed police troops…

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Moree Petty Sessi Court. Driving Under influence of Alcohol

North West Champion · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 4

Alfred Charles Seaton, carrier, 29, was charged at the Moree [?] of Petty Sessi[?]s last Tuesday fore Mr. A. S. luncheon, P.M.,…

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Appalling Shooting Tragedy In Moree's Business Centre Wife of Well-known Grazier Killed—brother on Murder Charge

North West Champion · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

Profound shock was registered by the whole community of Moree on Tuesday, when at about 3.45 p.m., Mrs. Joan Fingleton, wife of Mr. Alexander Fingleton, of "Tyrone," Gurley, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A…

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Russians Murder High American Official VIENNA

The North Western Courier · Monday 1 November 1948 · page 1

A high American official of the European Economic co-operation administration in Vienna has been battered to death in his car in the Russian zone the city…

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Evalt Predicts Solution East-West Deadlocks "Very Soon" Washington Discounts Talk Of Truman-Stalin Meeting Coroner Commits Man To Trial For Murder Of Sister

North West Champion · Thursday 11 November 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Wednesday (A.A.P.)—A prediction that the East-West Deadlocks will be broken "very soon" was made yesterday by the President of the General Assembly, Doctor Evatt, who feels that the At the Moree Coroner's Court yesterday, Paul Gerald Carrigan Was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on 22nd November on a charge of having feloniously and maliciously murdered his…

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£5 Fine for Assault

North West Champion · Monday 15 November 1948 · page 5

At the Moree Petty Sessions Court last Friday, Frank Chown was fined! £5, in default 18 days hard labour, for assault on George Irwin Hugh…

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Police Court Found on Licensed Premises

The North Western Courier · Thursday 25 November 1948 · page 12

Found on licensed premises at 10 a.m. one Sunday morning P. Stafford and J. McKenny pleaded guilty and were each fined £2, costs 8/- at the…

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Fined for Theft

North West Champion · Thursday 25 November 1948 · page 6

At Tuesday's Court of Petty Sessions, Donald McLennan, labourer, aged 57, was fined £3 in default six days hard labour for the theft of a…

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Le Galien Murder Trial SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 25 November 1948 · page 1

A youth said in the Central Criminal Court that he and Charles Ivan Le Gallien had broken into Le Gallien's father's…

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Three Men Arrested for Alleged Theft. Sydney

North West Champion · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 1

Standing in the middle of the road with a revolver drawn, a Picton policeman early this morning stopped a car and arrested three men who had been…

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Well-known Jockey in Court Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 1

David Hugh (Darby) Munro appeared at Kogarah Court to-day, on changes of negligent driving and having caused grievous…

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