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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Moss Remanded Until May 31 Police Will Then Proceed With Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 4

"The case has been very involved and has necessitated extensive inquiry concerning the whereabouts of several…

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Sydney Man Who Came To Country. Made Plaited Leather Goods Held By Police. Enquiries For Other Missing Men

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 1

Detectives are now convinced that another of the missing men is dead. Goods in the possession of the police have been identified as the property of William Henry Bartley, who left Lidcombe last…

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Detectives Forge Chain Of Evidence Missing Men Mystery Inquiries Regarding O'shea and Bartley Are Nearing Finality Will Murder Charges Be The Sequel?

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 1

Link by link, detectives who have been engaged in the Narromine district for five weeks, investigating what has become known as the missing men mystery, have formed a chain of evidence which will enable them to…

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Police Court Wednesday’s Sitting

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 6

Several cades were heard beford Mr. C. Pickup, P.W., In the Coonabarabran police court yesterday…

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Throat Cut Butcher Charged With Murder Victim a Married Woman

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day, Andrew Leckie (54), butcher was charged with the murder of Laura Cuddihy, on…

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Bones Case Police Hope to Prefer Their Murder Charges Fears for Wellington Man's Safety SYDNEY

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 1

A message from Dubbo states that the police are still hopeful of collecting sufficient evidence shortly to enable them to…

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Alleged Murder Moss Remanded Until May 31

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 3

Albert Andrew Moss (61), who is charged with having murdered Thomas Robinson (68), at Brummagem, on or…

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Alleged to Have Murdered Woman Butcher Before Court Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day, Andrew Leckie (54), a butcher, was charged with the murder of Laura Cuddihy, on April 15…

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The Mystery Of The Worker In Leather. Was He Killed At Narromine? Will There Be Another Murder Charge?

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 1

Working on one of the most baflling cases thai have ever had to be solved, detectives are slowly reconstructing, link by link, the travels of three different men. Each man, they believe, met with fool play. Things known to…

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Serious Trouble In Jerusalem Jews Attack Police With Machine Guns Reaction to White Paper Twelve Police and 100 Jews Injured London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 1

Jews demonstrating in Zion Square, in Jerusalem, broke street lights and shop windows and stoned the police from the housetops. They attacked the police with machine guns, seriously injuring one and slightly…

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Goya Henry Again High Court Appeal Fails Melbourne, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 1

The Full High Court of Australia to-day dismissed what virtually was an appeal of Goya Henry, pilot of an aerodyne, against a line of £5 at the…

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Air Disasters Wide Powers of Court of Inquiry Canberra, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 1

The first sitting of the newly constituted Air Force Court of inquiry will be held in Melbourne on Tuesday, when it…

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Missing Men Police Believe That 3 Men Are Dead Will Ray Hennell and Frank Paton Be Found Alive? What 39 Days' Search Has Revealed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 1

Detectives engaged on investigations concerning the mysterious disappearances of five men in the Narromine district are believed to have collected sufficient evidence to indicate beyond reasonable doubt that at…

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Gay Deceiver Three Years' Gaol for Bigamy SYDNEY

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 1

Eric Mathew Homer (32), a contractor, who pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions Court to-day to a charge of bigamy,…

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Hitler or Stalin Britain Must Choose One of Them Fears of Lightning Assault SYDNEY

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 1

Dr. W. G. K. Duncan, of Sydney University, in a broadcast address, said that the British must choose in…

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Gaol for Evading Taxation New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 1

The political overlord of Kansas City, Tom Pendergast, was sentenced to 15 months in the Federal prison for evading 443,000 dollars taxation…

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Impressing the Police

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 1

A woman driving her car in Paris went past a traffic stop and was duly pulled up by the man on point duty, who enquired, "Did you not sec the…

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Man Who Made Love to Actress Detained by Police Medical Observation Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 1

A man who gave the name of Frank Murray Hughes (47), of Victoria, was charged before a magistrate at the Reception…

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Did Anybody See This Man? Police Concentrating on William Bartley. Believed To Have Been Murdered Near Narromne

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 1

The police are concentrating on the search for William Hartley, they believe with murdered near Narromine. He is known to have left the Metropolitan area, where his parents reside, and to have gone to Kurri Kurri, where his sister…

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Police Thoroughness In Missing Men Search Blood Pools What Was Found Paton Left For Dubbo on March 3

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 1

Outstanding feature in the police search for five men who have disappeared in the Narromine district is the…

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