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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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An Unusual Case In Supreme Court District Farmer Involved

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 5

[?]In Interesting land case was heard in the Dubbo Supreme Court yesterday, when Arthur Leonard Royee sought to regain possession…

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Police Court

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 6
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

The usual monthly sitting of the Gilgandra Police Court was held no Tuesday. After being adjourned from two courts, it was announced…

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Bankruptcy Court

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 9

In the Bankruptcy Court, Gilgandra, on Tuesday, before Mr. Denton, P.M., a public examination and first meeting of creditors was held…

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Cotton Strikers Fall Foul of the Police Calcutta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 1

A grave situation has developed at Bombay, where fierce fighting between cotton mill strikers and the police followed the former's defiance of the…

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Police Thanked

Western Age · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 2

At the conclusion of the hearing of a stealing case at Narromine, Mr. Cosgrove, the owner of the stolen articles thanked and complimented the police…

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Warden's Court

Western Age · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 2

At the Cobar Warden's Court, before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., Mr. F. Armstrong, managing director of Armstrong Bros., Sydney, applied for gold…

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High Court Judgment Railway Employees Commissioners' Application Fails

Western Age · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 3

The application by the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales and South Australia to bring all their wage, staffs within…

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New Basic Wage Fixed by Arbitration Court Strange Railway Position

Western Age · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 4

Declaring that the economic conditions now permitted it, the Full Arbitration Court in Melbourne, by a majority, on…

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Perth Tragedy Father's Story to Police Perth, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 1

When the hearing was resumed to-day into the cause of the death of Albert Daniel Mollor, aged 10, whose body, with a knife in the back, was found in…

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Wellington Police Court Strangers Charged

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 3

At the Police Court on Friday morning, before Mr. J. J. Fernon Chamber. Magistrate, three strangers to the town—followers of country…

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Attempted Murder And Suicide. Brisbane

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 1

At Brisbane, after shooting Herbert Linneman, 55, at Sunny Mount, Herbert Stevens Walson, 21, shot himself dead, it is alleged that…

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Light Fingered Gaol for Weight Guesser

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 1

When William Summer Brownlee allowed Vincent Sylvester Cook (42), to lift him, in the endeavour to calculate his weight, he was not…

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Awful Tragedy Double Murder and Suicide Demented Mother's Deed Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 1

A dreadful tragedy was enacted at Malvern, a suburb of Melbourne, last night. When Daniel Turner returned home…

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Clever Police Work Man Arrested in Gilgandra Sentenced to Six Months Hard Labour

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 11

Sergeant Taylor and members of the Gilgandra Police Force are deserving of a little kudos for the clever arrest that was…

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Warren Constable Wants Wife Back Supreme Court Case

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 5

Because his wife left him in November, 1933, and did not return. Donald Hilder, a police Constable, stationed at Warren,…

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Cobar Police Court (Before Mr. C. C. Pickup. P.M.)

Western Age · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 2

A very light list was presented in the Magistrate (Mr. C. C Pickup), at the Collar Police Court on Monday April 23…

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An Unusual Case. In Supreme Court. District Farmer Involved

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 9

An interesting land case was heard in the Dubbo Supreme Court on Monday, when Arthur Leonard Royce sought to regain possession of…

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Forged Stamps Three Poles Sentenced (Australian Press Association Message) London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1934 · page 1

One of the three Poles arrested on a charge of being in possession of forged insurance stamps to the value of £44,700, was sentenced to four years'…

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Bold Burglary Thieves' Short Shrift Clever Capture by the C.I.B. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1934 · page 1

The home of a retired grazier, William Owen Pielding-Jones, at Darling Point, was broken into last night and ransacked. The burglars carried away…

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