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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

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Surry Hills Murder Domestic Charged

Western Age · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 3

When charged at the Central Police Court on Monday with the murder of Arthur Elliott in a house at Surry Hills on Saturday night, Rose McIntosh, 33…

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Bondi Murder Trial Opened To-day

Western Age · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 3

At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, Claude William Wallace, 24, mechanic, and Erie Newlyn, 26, motor car driver, were charged with having…

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Big City Robbery Accused Before the Court

Western Age · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 3

Frederick Taylor, 34, carpenter, and Frederick Thompson, 26, plumber, were charged at the Central Court on Monday with having stolen from…

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Two Years' Gaol For Child Abductor Sydney, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 1

Thomas Peter Boyd, who was convicted at the Quarter Sessions of having abducted a three-year-old baby girl from her parents' home at…

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Ready for Blacks In Far North Police Party to Leave Darwin

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 1

Plans have been completed for the sending of a party of three additional police, and four black trackers to the Groote Island Mission…

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Court Cases Postponed Illness of Police Magistrate

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 September 1933 · page 6

ALL the cases set down for hearing at the Court on Friday last, had to be postponed on account of the sickness of the Police Magistrate, Mr. E…

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Gular Police Court Mack Against Hotel

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 8

Through not keeping strictly within the Liquor Laws, the police by their usual strict surveillance, again charged and secured a conviction…

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Mysterious Murder At Castle Hill Police Arrest Youth Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 1

Shot in the back at close range, Wallace Cantwell (58) is alleged to have been murdered at Castle Hill last night, as he was returning home from work…

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30 Hour Week Claim Before Court Combined Unions Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 1

Application will shortly be made by the combined trade unions to the Federal Arbitration Court for a shorter working…

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Counterfeit Coins Traveller Sentenced

Western Age · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions on Friday Joseph Kelly, 12, described as a traveller, was sentenced to 12 months good on a charge of having had…

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Nazi Justice Communists Sentenced

Western Age · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 3

Nine Communists have been sentenced to death in connection with the shooting of a Nazi and the wounding of another in a street battle at…

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Cobar Revision Court

Western Age · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 2

Attention is directed to a notice to this issue by the Collar Municipal Council, that a Revision Court to revise the supplementary list of electors…

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Gaol for Grazier Guilty of Sheep Stealing Moree, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions, George Allen Byron (63), grazier, was sentenced to nine months' hard labor on a charge of stealing sheep…

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Prospectors' Fate Speared by Blacks ? Police Suspect Murder Darwin, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 1

The police have formed the opinion that the missing white prospectors, Adolph Kock and Stephen Arinksiy, have been murdered by blacks…

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Protecting Police Judge Thomson's Comment Sydney, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Vincent Feeney (24), a laborer, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and his brother, Leslie Feeney (39), a…

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Wellington Police Court (Before Mr. E. T. Oram, P.M.) An Opossum Case

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 6

AT the Police Court on Friday morning last, William Cummins was charged with having in his possession the skins of protected animals, to wit…

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Warden's Court (Before Mr. E. T. Aram, P.M.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 6

AT the Warden's Court, before the Warden (Mr E. T. Oram) on Friday last, Albert Vincent Richardson, in support of his application for…

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Six Months' Gaol Eumungerie Robbery Sequel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 2

Charged with stealing 15/6 in cash, a silver watch and chain, soap, can de cologne and a bridle, valued at £10, the property of Thomas Arthur Lesslie…

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King's Cross Tragedy Murder by Unknown Man Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 1

At the conclusion of an inquiry into the death of Gules Boccy (35), at King's Cross, on August 28, who died following injuries received in a fight with a man…

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Special Police Guard At Germany Embassy London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 1

A special police guard has been placed at the German Embassy, at Carlton House Terrace, owing to the receipt of numerous threats from those not in…

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