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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Rich Red Rum Home Brew! Next to Police Station Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 1

The police unearthed a large illicit still in Regent Street, Redfern, yesterday, within a few hundred yards of the police station…

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Detective Attacked In Yard of the Central Court Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 1

While Detective Fleming was within the precincts of the Central Court to-day ho was set upon by a powerful man, and badly knocked about…

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Useful Police Work

Western Age · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 3

The local police are to be congratulated for their prompt arrest of the [?] criminal who imposed a valueless cheque on an old-age pensioner and…

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It Doesn't Pay to Break the Laws Penalties at Dubbo Police Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 2

It doesn't pay to break the law, as several persons found to their sorrow in the Dubbo Police Court this week…

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Terrorism in India Police Stations Bombed Calcutta

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 1

A new form of terrorism by bombing the police stations and police officers quarters is developing at Allahabad, where four cases have been…

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Sittings of Dubbo Quarter Sessions. Occupies Two Full Days Arson, Burglary, Shooting & Criminal Assault Judge A. Thomson Presiding

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 6

At press time on Tuesday, the jury had retired on the case of Willinm Gillett, arraigned on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing from the…

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Bourke Police Court. Damage to Railway Property and Trespass. (Before Messrs. F. J. Permewan and A. Carmichael, J's P)

The Western Herald · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 2

Bart Budd, a travelling buck jumping show proprietor, appeared before the Court on Monday on a charge of damaging Railway property and…

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Dubbo District Court Cases Dealt with

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 4

Judge Thomson presided over the Dubbo District Court this week, when the following civil cases were dealt with:--…

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Still Missing Lindbergh's Baby Son Police Searching for Woman Who Wrote Important Letter

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 1

HOPEWELL, New Jersey, Thursday. The police announce that no contact lots yet been made with the kidnappers of Lindbergh's son…

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Brutal Assault Three Men Arrested Casina

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 1

Night Porter Tom Honley was brutally assaulted on Saturday night, when he was about to step on to the station to relieve another officer. His…

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Two Years Gaol for Larceny of £11,200 Cheque Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Walter George Melbourne Wall, [?] income tax adjuster, was convicted of larceny as a bailee of a cheque for £11,299…

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Police Search For Escaped Prisoner. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 1

An intensive search is being conducted by the Parramatta police and warders for Raymond Arnold, aged 19 years, who escaped from his hut…

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Clothes Stolen While Bathing Police Assist Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 1

Considerable inconvenience was suffered by a number of persons at Bondi yesterday when sneak thieves stole their clothing while they were…

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Nude Body Found In German Cemetery Murderer Faunts Police and Threatens to Emulate Deeds of Vampire of Dusseldorf Paris

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 1

The murderer of Suzanne Melyers, whose nude body was found in the cemetery at Strasburg, boasts that he is emulating the feats of Peter Kueren,…

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Minor Breaches at Police Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 1

For failing to renew licenses two defendants were mulcted of the minimum 10/-, with 8/- costs, in default two days. In another breach of the Traffic. Act…

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Police Theory HOPEWELL, Later

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 1

The New Jersey police revealed today that they are still investigating the possibil'ty that some member of the Lindbergh household was involved in…

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Nude Body Found Io German Cemetery Murderer Faunts Police and Threatens to Emulate Deeds of 'Vampire of Dusseldorf"

Western Age · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 4

The murderer of Suzanne Meiyers, whose nude body was found in the cemetery at Strasburg, boasts that he is emulating the feats of Peter Ku[?]…

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Baby Lindbergh Still Missing Telegram From Kidnappers "Baby Doing Good" Police Make Three Arrests Nation-Wide Search New York

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 1

Baby Lindbergh is still missing, and a nation-wide search is being made to discover him. The police are…

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Assault Case Man Arrested Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 2

Sydney detectives last night arrested a man in connection with the brutal assault of Gregory Slarka, secretary of the Enmore theatre on…

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Murder Trial Lad of 19 Involved. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 1

The trial commenced to-day of Reginald Frederick Woodley, aged 19 years, labourer, for the alleged murder of Cecil Budworth, a baker,…

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