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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Dubbo Police Distorted Statement By Wellington "Times" Recent Burglaries

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

A distorted statement which appears in the Wellington "Times" and does not reflect favourably on the Dubbo police, calls for…

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Sensational Cattle Stealing Case

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

This first-hand story of Australia's greatest romance of the bush will finish in "The Liberal" this month…

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At the Police Court Monday's Parade Many Minor Offences

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 4

The Traffic Act and the Liquor Act were the principal mediums of revenue at Dubbo Police Court on Monday morning. Mr. Adams, P.M, presided,…

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Police Reinforced Kurri Camp Steengthened Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

A large party of police, fully equipped, left Sydney last night for the Northern coalfields in anticipation of further trouble…

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Murder and Suicide At Summer Hill Carpenter Carries out Threat Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

At Summer Hill, yesterday, a carpenter named William Plumb shot his wife and baby girl, and then committed suicide…

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The Coal Crisis Lawyers Going Strong In the High Court Appeal Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

The Full Bench of the High Court of Australia, which will decide the validity or otherwise of Judge Beeby's interim award, in connection with the Northern…

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Charge of Murder

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 10

At the Wellington police court this morning, John Matthew William Cordon McKenzie, was brought up before Mr. A. M. Dunn, and…

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Dubbo Police Sent to Rothbury

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 4

The "Dispatch" has bean informed on reliable authority that five policemen and horses have been sent from the Dubbo Police…

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"PILL-BOXES" For Sydney Police Greater Efficiency

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 5

Six police boxes with outside telephones for the use of persons wanting to communicate with the head station in the division are to…

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"Beckett's" In Trouble Police Seize "Budgets" "Obscene Literature" SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 1
Also in Western Age

Following the raid on the Rare Bookshop yesterday, detectives visited "Beckett's Budget" office in the "Sunday Times" building. They there…

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Dubbo's Population On the Increase 12,642 in Police Patrol

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 5

Dubbo's population is increasing rapidly, according to the police returns for the past years. The figures for 1929, as given the…

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To-day's Wires. The Coal Trouble. Miners and Police Clash Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 10

Four miners' gatherings on the coalfields were charged by police, armed with batons early yesterday. Several men were injured and…

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Another Outbreak the Coalfields Trouble Police Charge Mobs Many Arrests Made Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 1
Also in Western Age

Ten men arrested at Kearsley and Abermain have been charged "That at Cessnock, on January 15, they did knowingly join in or continue in an unlawful assembly."…

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Sensational Cattle Stealing Case

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

This first-hand story of Australia's greatest romance of the bush will finish in "The Liberal" this month…

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Police Supported Doing Duty Fairly Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) says that there is no truth whatever in the statement made by some of the miners that the police, without any…

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Increase in Crime Police Figures for Year Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

The annual police figures show slight increases in crime for 1929, compared with the preceding year…

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A Salacious She Misleads Police Seeking Cheap Notoriety Perth

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

A girl, employed in a factory at West Perth, told the police that she had been, subjected to a criminal assault by a man unknown to her…

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Sensational Cattle-stealing Case Recollections of My Bush Days First-hand Facts from One of the Originals For "The Liberal" by Old Stockman Chapter Xii

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

There are vagabond lovers a wander Out there where the stars seem to ponder As they shine in the sky's curving…

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