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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Police Discovery In Bankstown Bush Plant to Disguise Cycles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 1

The police wireless patrol visited a lonely spot in the bush, at Bankstown, to-day, and discovered a plant, which they allege was used to…

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Rumanian Royalty Trouble al Court Dowager Queen's Illness

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 8

Although the rumor that the Dowager Queen Marie or Runnania had been poisoned, has been denied, and an official statement to…

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Politesse De Police

The Western Herald · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 2

The police in Newport (England) are trying a new was of prevent ing street congestion by parked cars. Instead of summoning the…

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Alleged Murder Doyle Not Guilty Sydney, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, patrick Doyle (26), mechanic, and Robert Henry Gartner ( 30), laborer, were charged with having murdered…

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Shearing Trouble in the West Dubbo Police Officers At Nyngan Station

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

Following a disturbance at a sheep station in the Nyngan district, police from Dubbo and other centres have gone to the West on…

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Magistrate's Decision Reversed by Industrial Commission

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

An appeal by way of a stated case from the decision of a Dubbo magistrate, who held that variations made after the expiry…

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Mean Theft Kindergarten School Broken Into

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 3

A very mean theft took place some time during Thursday night or Friday morning, when the Wellington Sacred Heart…

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Theft From Skin Store Two Men Arrested

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

On Monday last the store of Messrs. Riley Newman, Ltd., at Dubbo, was broken into and a considerable quantity of skins removed…

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Police Not Interested Sydney, later

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 1

[?]ing Commissioner for Police, [?] Lynch, said that he was not in[?] when informed of the state[?] made in the Town Hall, last…

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Local and General Licensing Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 2

At the Licensing Court, yesterday, Mr. R. G. Cookaon, L.M., grunted the transfer of the license of Tattersall's Hotel from Arthur W. Cleaver to…

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Police Court COONABARABRAN

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 1

At the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., on Tuesday afternoon, Selwyn C. McArtney and William Gardiner…

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Man Charged Before Court Refusing to Pay Accommodation

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 6

James Ryan was charged at the Coonabarabran .Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. Pickup, P.M., with refusing to pay a…

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Failure to Produce Permit For Travelling Stock Man Charged at Coonabarabran Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 7

Dudley Mills was charged at the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., on Tuesday afternoon, with having failed to produce a stock permit on demand. Mr. D. I. Watt was the complainant in this case…

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Theft of Skins Prisoner's Offer Sold in Wellington

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 5

At the Dubbo Police Court on Monday morning, before Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., Leslie Batten and Kenneto[?]. Gardiner each…

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Jury Disagrees Melbourne Murder Charge Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 1

The jury in the trial of Rupert Osborne Davies and William Cody charged with having murdered Edward Scriven in February, last year, returned into…

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Moratorium Court Sits at Coonabarabran

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 6

Before Mr. C. Pickup, PM., at the Coonabarabran Moratorium Court on Tuesday afternoon Wink-worth and Sons Ltd. proceeded…

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Clashes in Brussels Police and Ex-soldiers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 1

Brussels, Wednesday. Serious clashes between the police and 20.000 ex-soldiers, who marched on the capital, demanding the repeal of legislation pardoning the traitors…

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Small Debts Court Applicant Succeeds Interesting Case

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 10

The haaring of the case, J. W. Raglus v. A. R. Townsend, before Mr. R. G. Cookeon, in the Cilgandra Small Debts Court on…

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Press Rights Court Reporting Chief Justice's Ruling

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 6

Defining the rights of the Press in reporting law and police courts proceedings, the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Jordan),…

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Straying Stock Three Persons Fined. at Coonabarabran Court House

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 6

Three persons, two of whom were previous offenders, were fined at the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. Pickup, P.M ;…

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