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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1924

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Police Court. Monday, May 12th. (Before Mr. G. Meeson, P.m.) Drunkenness

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 16 May 1924 · page 3

Thomas Richards and Joseph Dowling were both charged with having been found drunk in public places. They failed to appear, and their bail of 10/…

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Eumungerie Police Station

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 May 1924 · page 6

A police station is being establishes at Eumungerie, with Constable Hayes, formerly of Gilgandra, but now of Tilpa, as its first police officer…

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Police Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 1

Before Mr. U. Messon, P.M., at the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, Vevery Maud Cannon, on remand from Gilgandra, was charged with breaking and…

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Alleged Assault

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 3

Charles William Homer was charged with that he did on May 16th, at Mogriguy, assault Charles George Reid, and did beat and otherwise ill-treat him,…

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Police Court. Monday, May 19th. (Before Mr. G. Meeson, P.m.) Alleged Breaking, Entering and Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 3

[?] Maud Cannon was charged with that she did break and enter the warehouse of the Country Freezing Co. at Dubbo, and stoal therefrom a…

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Guilty Ot Assault

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 1

Charles William Homer pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully assaulting Charles George Read at Mogrigny on the 16th instant. Mr. D…

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Riot in Bathurst Gaol. Bayonets and Batons in Use

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 2

Trouble, which had been browing for ten days in Bathurst Gaol, broke out into dangerous and riotous conflict on Saturday between prisoners and…

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Licensing Court. (Monday -- Before Mr. G. Meeson, P.m.) Booth Licenses

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 20 May 1924 · page 4

Booth licenses were granted to D. J. Cox, of the Castlereagh Hotel, Dubbo, for the Macquarie Picnic Races on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week,…

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Revision Court

The Wellington Times · Thursday 22 May 1924 · page 6

A revision court to revise the State electoral lists for the following polling places within the Wammerawa electorate will be held at the…

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Municipal Appeal Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 May 1924 · page 6

The Dubbo Municipal Appeal Court, for the purpose of hearing appeals against the municipal valuations, has been fixed for Monday, 30th June, at 10…

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Friday's Police Court. (Before Mr. G. Meeson, P.M. Drunkenness, Assault and Language

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 4

James Byrne pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found drunk at the railway station on May 22nd. He was also charged with having assaulted…

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Police Court. Alleged Breaking and Entering

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 4

In the Dubbo Police Court on Friday morning, before Mr. G. Meeson. P.M., a young woman named Cannon appeared to answer a charged that she did break…

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Alleged Breaking, Entering and Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 4

Vevery Maud Cannon, on remand, was charged with that she did on 14th January break and enter the premises of the Country Freezing Co. at Dubbo,…

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Monday's Police Court (Before Mr. G. Meoson, P.m.) Cruelty to Animals

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 2

William Hardy pleaded not guilty to a charge of cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it while it was suffering from [?]ore shoulders…

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"Dr. Hertz" in Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 4

Frank John Hertz, with nine aliases including the title of "doctor," was charged with obtaining from John Roger Witters the sum of £5 by…

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Roy Governor Pivot of Bathurst Prisoners' Plan. Ingenious Cutting Tools. Sidelights on Bathurst Gaol Riot

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 27 May 1924 · page 1

Roy Governor, now as notorious as his aboriginal relative, is said to have taken a most important part in the escape scheme at the Bathurst Gaol…

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Ant Bed Tennis Court

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 May 1924 · page 2

To construct a chipped tennis court first make the ground as level as possible with a pick and shovel; then harrow it well, in order to break…

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Roy Governor Pivot of Bathurst Prisoners' Plan. Ingenious Cutting Tools. Sidelights on Bathurst Gaol Right

Western Age · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 3

[?] as notorious as [?] is said to have [?]tant port in the [?] the Bathurst Gaol…

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Police Act Quickly

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 2

A smart arrest was made by the police during last week. A man named Marshall, who was working on a property near Dunedoo, stole a horse,…

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Tennis. the Hard Court Championships. Tournament at Dubbo

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 2

The seventh hard court tennis championships of N.S.W. and the tenth western district championships will be held at Dubbo on the 20th, 21st, and 23rd…

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