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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

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Train Thieves One Lad Shot and Charged Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 1

Detectives last night saw a number of men throwing packages from a train near West Footscray. When challenged they jumped off the truck and ran away…

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Russian Plan Police Injured in Riot Warsaw

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 1

Nine civilians and one policeman were killed, and six policemen wounded, in riots in the Bzeszow and Ropozyee, when the police surprised illicit…

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Some More Wellington Court Reminiscences Judge Docker

The Wellington Times · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 5

Judge Docker, who acted for many years as Judge of the Western district, was noted for his severe sentences. At times he would be a little…

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Blattmans, of Bathurst In Divorce Court Did Bride of Fifteen Fall? Bathurst

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 1

Bathurst is having quite a sensation over the case in the Divorce Court, in which James Blattman, a slaughterman, is petitioning for a divorce from his…

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Japanese Bank Murder £34,000 Taken

Western Age · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 3

Pret[?]nding he suspected burglars, a policeman roused the manager of the Yacuda Bank from bed, and prevailed on him to investigate the strongroom…

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Ex-Trangie Couple Embraces In Court. Unusual Scenes in Prothonotary's Court Domestic Trouble Between Ex-Trangie Schoolmaster Shaft And His Wife. SYDNEY

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 5

Unusual scenes occurred in the Prothonotary's Court during the hearing to-day of an alimony suit instituted by Eva Roberta Shaft against her husband, Oscar Theodor Shaft, headmaster of the public School at Bellbird. The parties were formerly teachers at Trangie…

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Big Land Dispute Court Sequel Dubbo Farmer's Claim Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1933 · page 5

"Apparently the old idea of ordinary fairness has been abandoned under this Act. In other times, when a man had been induced to…

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District Court (Before His Honor Judge Barton)

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 June 1933 · page 2

The District Court opened in the local Court House this morning, when the following cases were listed: Thomas Richard Sutton v. Rita T…

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Solicitor Sentenced

The Western Herald · Tuesday 27 June 1933 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Harry Alison Green, 33, solicitor, pleaded guilty to having omitted to accounted for £881 belonging to a client…

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Sequel to Assault Hotelkeeper's Appeal

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 4

Because it was alleged he had assaulted William Edward Black on April 2, Richard Doherty, licensee of the Macquarie View Hotel, was…

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Police Court a Heavy List Before Mr.. Oram, P.M.

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 5

Eighteen defendants appeared before Mr. Oram P.M., at the usual monthly sitting of Gilgandra Police Court on Tuesday,…

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ASSAULT Girl Attacked Locked in Room Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 1

A seventeen year old girl informed the police last night that a man accosted her in Pitt Street yesterday and said he was an artist. He told…

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CLOTHING For Unemployed. Police Distribution

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 5

[?]CAUSE some doubt existed re[?]ding the distributing source of the [?]othing which is being made available by the Government for the…

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Looking Backward Some More Wellington Court Reminiscences

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 2

A SPORTY J.P. ENTRY in charge book at Wellington, as the decision of a well-known J.P., "3 days or ten bob."…

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Did Officer Default? Paying the Grocer District Court Case

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 1

"The fact that defendant is a police officer does not entitle him to any more consideration at your hands than any other man," said…

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Woman Sends Police on Wildgoose Hunt Paints Husband as Wife Deserter Brazen Attempt to Fool the Law Ends in Failure Unique Case at Quarter Sessions

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1933 · page 4

A woman's bold attempt to fool the police by living unsuspected with the husband, against whom a warrant for arrest as a wife deserter had been issued at her request, was revealed in the Dubbo Quarter Sessions on…

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ASSAULT Girl Attacked Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 1

Queenie Sly, aged 15 years, while returning to her home at Putney late last night, was attacked by a man who struck her…

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Court Brevities

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 2

Only a few minor cases were listed for hearing at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, when the Children's Court occupied most of P.M. Oram's…

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Fight at Geurie Court Sequel Bell Boys Battle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 4

The peaceful atmosphere of the quiet little village of Geurie was rudely disturbed on Saturday, when two young men gave a ding-dong…

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Raid by Police Forty-six Arrests ALLEGED S.P. BETTING

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 1

As the result of a raid by the Dubbo police yesterday afternoon, 46 men will appear in the Police Court on Monday, in connection…

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