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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Magistrate Warns Four Men

North West Champion · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 3

Four men were warned by Mr. N. C. Hawes not to appear in Court again at Moree Petty Sessions on Monday…

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Police Seek Dead Man's Identity Sydney, Thurs

The North Western Courier · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 1

The body of a man found in Lake Merimbula, South Coast, on Tuesday, is not that of…

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Fined for Stealing Gravel

North West Champion · Thursday 9 October 1952 · page 4

Two men Were fined by Mr. N. C Hawes S.M. at Mungindi Petty Sessions recently for stealing gravel from a Boomi…

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Police Court Failed to Destroy Dead Stock

The North Western Courier · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 1

The P.P. Board proceeded against the following: J. A. Kilner failed to comply with the clause of the P. P…

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Youths Involved In Wool Stealing Charge

The North Western Courier · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 8

At the Police Court on Wednesday, Dennis Earl Kinsella, was sentenced to three months' hard labour…

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Man Acquitted On Charge Of Assault

North West Champion · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 2

Eric Craigie was acquitted on a charge of assault by Mr. N. C Hawes, S.M., at Moree Petty Sessions this week. Craigie was charged with…

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Lengthy Court List

The North Western Courier · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 3

No less than 78 cases were listed for hearing at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Refusal To Serve Drink Has Sequel In Court

North West Champion · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 8

A wife's refusal to serve her husband with a drink in an hotel had its sequel in Moree Petty Sessions this week. Kathleen Mary Fitzpatrick…

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Car Theft Lesislation

Manilla Express · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 2

The NRMA welcomes the announcement by the Minister for Transport (M. Sheahan) that consideration is…

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Fair Rents Court

The North Western Courier · Monday 20 October 1952 · page 1

At the Court sitting on Thursday much of the Magistrate's time was occupied with Fair Rents…

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Police to Help with Flood News

The North Western Courier · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

Flood and river information will, in future, be phoned to Narrabri and broadcast at least twice daily,…

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Information Dismissed in Stealing Charge

North West Champion · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 2

Because he was satisfied that a bona fide claim of right had been made out, Mr. N. C. Hawes, S.M., on Monday dismissed information against Andrew Charles Smith, who was charged…

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Vishinskys Slating Attack On U.S. Secretary For Slate Charged with Distorting Korean Issue

North West Champion · Thursday 30 October 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thursday.—Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Vishinsky, told the United Nations yesterday the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, bad been guilty of "gross distortions"…

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Police Battle with Rioting Italians in Sydney Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 30 October 1952 · page 1

Police today drew batons in an attempt to hold back 300 rioting Italian migrants who attempted to force a way into Daking House, Rawson Place, the offices of the Italian…

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Police Changes

North West Champion · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 6

Inspector J. E. Squire has commenced duties as officer in charge of Moree Police Subdistrict…

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Police Search for Missing Man Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 1

Police today began dragging the Woronora River, near Sydney, for the body of Michael Quilkey, 52,…

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Moree Murder Recalled

North West Champion · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 2

The murder of a man in Moree in 1922 was recalled this week upon the retirement of Sergeant First-class M. J. McMahon, of Glen Innes, who was formerly stationed here…

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Charged With Five Breaches Of Traffic Regulations

North West Champion · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 6

Norman Leslie Carter was charged at Moree Petty Sessions on Monday with five of Traffic Regulations. They were:…

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Man Charged With Taxi Driver's Death SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 1

Arthur Ernest Halliday, 42, a plumber, of Richmount Street, Cronulla, at the Central Court to day, was charged with the murder of Athol Henry McCowan, a Southport taxi-driver, at…

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Fair Rents Court

The North Western Courier · Monday 17 November 1952 · page 4

Several cases before the Fair Rents Court on Thursday took the same lines as similar hearings in recent weeks…

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