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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

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Bail Allowed In "Intent to Murder" Charge Case From Milton SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 2 March 1931 · page 1

Mr. Justice Halse Rodgers, in Chambers to-day, granted an application for bail made on behalf of William James Rixon, who was under committal on a…

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Fatally Injured Police Sergeant Struck By Car SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 2 March 1931 · page 1

Sergeant McKnight (48), who was in charge of the Auburn Police Station, was struck by a motor car at Narrabeen last night and fatally injured…

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Men of Steel New Police Garb

Western Age · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 4

Poland is equipping her police force in a manner resembling the stalwart men-at-arms of the city march of the Middle Ages…

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Sheep Stealing From Trucks

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 10

Complaints are, from time to time, received by the Graziers' Association alleging the theft of sheep from railway vans. As a result of…

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Death Mystery Illness After Drink. Man Arrested and Charged with Murder. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 1

Mystery surrounds the death of Daniel Crawford, of Greenthorpe, in the Grenfell Hospital yesterday. In order that a solution might be…

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SELF-MURDER Amazing Suicide Suffocated by Own Hand

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 5

In the event of the conclusions of police and college officers in a mystery case at Cambridge proving correct, it will be found that…

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Smart Work by Dubbo Police Four Men Arrested

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 4

[?] by Sergeant Sweeney, the Dubbo police made some smart arrests on Tuesday. Recently a car was stolen from…

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Court Brevities Several Minor Cases Alleged False Pretences

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 2

P.M. Adams dealt with several minor cases in the Court of Petty Sessions this week. The first case called was one of…

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Lengthy Sitting Narromine Police Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 8

The following cases were heard before Mr. H. T. Adams, P.M., in the Narromine Police Court on Monday:—…

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Narromine Police Court Monthly Sitting

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 5

The following cases were heard before Mr. Adams, P.M., in the Narromine Court on Monday night:—Stubble Burning…

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Sheep Stealing From Truck

The Western Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

Complaints as from time to time received by the Graziers' Association alleging the theft of sheep from railway vans. As s result of enquires…

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Bourke Police Court. (Before MR. C. T. Wood, P.m.)

The Western Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

There were upwards of thirteen cases heard before the Police Magistrate on Wednesday last, many being for minor charges…

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Licensing Court

The Western Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate on Wednesday on last the license of the Commercial Hotel, Byrock, was transferred from Henry Edward…

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Murder and Suicide in Main Street

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 6

At 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning Bertie de Brett (36) killed his wife, Jessie, aged 26, with a razor, then slashed his own throat and fell dead a…

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Smart Work By Dubbo Police

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 5

Says the Dubbo "Dispatch":— Headed by Sergeant Sweeney, the Dubbo police made some smart arrests on Tuesday…

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Police Tactics. Forbes Solicitor Outspoken

The Western Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

At the Forbes Court, Mr. Meillon, who appeared for J. F. Le Brocque, proprietor of the Lachlan wine depot, charged with selling wine during…

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Small Debts'Court. Claims Heard Last Tuesday Before Mr. Adams, P.M. CLUFF V. OVENS

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

This was a claim in which Searl Cluff, a well-known Narromine farmer, sought to recover £10 from Jack Ovens, a Bathurst carrier. Ovens…

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Traveller Charged Driving Whilst Intoxicated Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 1

Richard Jack Johnson, aged 23 years, a traveller, was remanded on a charge of having feloniously slain David Ross Todd at Watson's Bay on…

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Attempted Murder? Woman Fired At. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 1

While Mrs. Ethel Totolis, of Neutral Bay, was seated on her front verandah last night, some person fired a shot, the bullet knocking a…

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Wellington Police Court. Another Dole Case. (Before the P.M., Mr. Adams.) Hotel Licensee Convicted. A Severe Section

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 4

AT the Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. Adams, P.M., George Leslie Cox, licensee of the Federal Hotel, was charged with permitting AT the Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. Adams, P.M., a welldressed young man, named Bertram William Ireland Fisher, was charged…

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