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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Stock Stealing

Western Age · Wednesday 23 April 1930 · page 3

Numbers of people imagine that stock stealing belongs to a lawless period that has passed. Graziers know different, as delegates to the graziers…

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Narrabri Murder Jury Fails to Agree

Western Age · Wednesday 23 April 1930 · page 1

The jury in the case in which Paul Meniel was charged with having murdered James Smith, or Arthur Sorenson, returned into Court at the…

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Charged with Murder. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 8

Cecil Farnsworth, Charles was charged with the murder of his father, John Edward Charles. He was further remanded at the…

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Stock Stealing

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 6

Numbers of people imagine that stock stealing belongs to a lawless period that has passed. Graziers know different, as delegates to the graziers'…

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Public Tennis Court

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 8

A Dubbo team of tennis play[?] were to have visited Wellington night to play the members of the public tennis club, but the game [?]…

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Alleged S.P. Betting. Police Raid

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 12

EASTER Time is well-known to all sporting enthusiasts, as a time when oven those people whoare not otherwise engaged in racing, are…

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Gulargamborie Court of Petty Sessions

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 3

A fine of £1 on each chavgo was imposed against Robert Brunton on Saturday last at the Gulargambone Court of Petty Sesions, on charges…

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Accused of Corruption Revolutionaries Sentenced Moscow

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 25 April 1930 · page 1

Five leaders of the economic revolution in the Ukraine Lumber Trust were sentenced to death. One hundred and six other officials of the trust received…

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Mail Theft Recalls Bathurst Hold-up. First Train Bandit

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 25 April 1930 · page 5

The yet-unsolved mystery of the Mudgee mail robbery at Glenbrook has recalled the fact that this was not the first occasion on which an…

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Richmond Murder Case Accused Refused Bail Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 25 April 1930 · page 1

Cecil Farnsworth Charles, who was charged with murdering his father (John Edward Charles) was again before the Central Court to-day. Mr. D. R. Hall…

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The Sunshine Tragedy The Verdict Murder and Suicide Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 25 April 1930 · page 1

Wilful murder and suicide was the verdict returned by the Coroner after the inquiry into the deaths of Horace Broaden (48), and his children, Allan…

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Alleged Theft By Ex-Dubbo Policeman Defendant in Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 28 April 1930 · page 1

Horace McMahon, until recently a member of the Dubbo Police Force, faced P.M. Adams in the Police Court to-day, to answer a…

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Police Suspects Smart Clean-up by Sergeant Sweeney Four Men Sentenced to Hard Labour

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 28 April 1930 · page 4

Smart work by Sergeant Sweeney, Dubbo's plain-clothes police officer, was responsible for the apparance of four men in the…

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Smart Capture. Western Police Alert

The Wellington Times · Monday 28 April 1930 · page 5

A SMART capture by the Carcoar police promises to clear up a robbery which occurred in a distant part of the State. When the police…

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Girl's Story of Assault Lured from Car The Police Investigating Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 1

A nineteen-year-old girl told the Redfern police early this morning that she had been lured from a car to a lonely spot at Brighton le Sands by two men…

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A Car Theft Guilty of Two Charges

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 6

Before Mr. Adams, P.M., in the Police Court yesterday morning, a young man named Leonard Victor Corbett, alias Jones, alias McNamara,…

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Charges of Vagrancy Two Young Men Charged

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 1

George Leslie Bell and James Tunny, two young men, pleaded guilty to charges of vagrancy at the Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr. Adams,…

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Licensing Court Two Transfers Granted

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 2

In the Licensing Court yesterday, for Mr. Adams, L.M., the following applications were dealt, with:—John Kill made application to…

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Supreme Court a Clean Sheet Pair of White Gloves

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 1

This morning, at the Dubbo Court House, his Honor, Sir Philip Street, opened a sitting of the Supreme Court. Mr. P. H. Reid acted as judge's…

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Sentenced to Death the Tamworth Murder Armidale

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 1 May 1930 · page 1

The trial of Charles Britten, the well-known Tamworth citizen, charged with the murder of his wife at Tamworth, was concluded…

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