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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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Gruesome Joke Gives Police a Busy Night Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

Detectives, throughout the night, searched the water near the North Shore Suspension Bridge, as a result of the finding of clothes belonging to a…

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Series of Land Appeals From Nyngan To the Land and Valuation Court Board's Appraisement of Cox's Homestead Farm Final Decision by Mr. Justice Pike

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 7

Landholders in the State, generally, are greatly interested in a series of appeals recently heard before Mr. Justice Pike against the decisions of the…

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Trangie Slashing Case Husband Committed for Attempted Murder

Western Age · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 3

At the Trangie Police Court, on Tuesday, before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., Thomas Martin Griffiths (37), of Sydney, was charged with…

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Murder of Prospectors by Fitzmaurice River Blacks Mystery Solved and Arrests Made

Western Age · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 3

A Darwin message received at Brisbane states that Constable Langdon returned with eight prisoners, five witnesses and one inter[?] after…

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Double Murder Links in the Chain Detective's Fine Work Auckland, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 1

Further links in the chain of evidence which led to the arrest of William Alfred Bayly (27), on charges of having murdered Samuel Pender Lakey…

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Less Crime In Dubbo Police District Year's Work Reviewed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 6

A perusal of a big page, large enough to cover half an averaged size table, and containing a complete record of all cases dealt with…

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Wellington Police Court. Friday, January 19, 1934 (Before Mr. C. F. Denton, P.M.) Charge of Assault. Young Man Fined

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 4

THERE was another "full house" at the Court on Friday morning, to hear the charge brought by Walter Ray Sibraa against Harry Giddes, a young…

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Licensing Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 2

At the Licensing Court on Friday morning last, before Mr. C: F. Denton, an Australian wine license was transferred from Thomas Higgins to…

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Murder and Suicide Tumut Drowning Case Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 1

An inquest was held to-day at Tumut, concerning the deaths of Mrs Florence Eliza Martin, 39 years of. Frederick Martin, whose bodies were…

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Dead Man Found on Beach Police are Mystified

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 1

The body of John Williamson (58) a retired American businessman, was found on the foreshores of West Beach, a suburb of Adelaid…

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Cleaning Up! Paris Police Heads to Go Paris

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 1

The wholesale dismissal of the police! heads, was agreed upon by the Chamber of Deputies to-day, as the first step in the clean-up of the Stavisky…

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Dubbo Grazier Faces Serious Charges Not Guilty of Stealing Sheep Second Charge of Goods in Custody Adjourned Case Creates Great District Interest

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 4

A case, of considerable interest to graziers and other sheepmen, was heard in the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, when David John Comerford, a well-known Peak Hill Road pastoralist, was charged with stealing seven ewes and one wether, valued at £8, the property…

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Police Court

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 1

The following cases were dealt with at the monthly sitting of the Gilgandra Police Court on Tuesday, presided over by Mr. Denton, P.M…

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Theft at the Baths

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 2

Last Tuesday night some one broke into the Wellington Swimming Club's room. Unfortunately for himself, the lessee had left a sum of money…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Police to Lecture

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 5

The Department of Education has notified the N.R.M.A. that approval has been given for senior officers of the police force to lecture to children…

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The Perth Mystery Widow Charged with Murder

Western Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 3

The inquest concerning the death of John Carroll concluded a Perth. The Coroner committed Carroll's widow for trial on a charge of murder…

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Stealing Charge

Western Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

George Brown was charged with that he did, on the 11th April 1933, steal one oil drum, with tap, valued at 7/-, the property of Reginald Evans…

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Assault Charge

Western Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

Michael Angelo Padula proceeded againt Melville J. Finn, of Cobar, for malicious assault, on 18th January 1934…

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Murder and Suicide

Western Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 3

At the inquest held at Tumut to-day concerning the death of Mrs Florance Eliza Martin (39), and her 18 months' old twin son, William Frederick…

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Wardens Court

Western Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Campbell sought a suspension of labor conditions on the Peak Mines N.L. Company, for six months…

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