Cobbora St. Mystery Serious View Taken By Police
Police are still investigating the mystery surrounding the taking of Rodney Tucker (13 months) from the verandah of his parents' home…
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Courts & crime, 1940
399 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 20
Not Guilty Man Charged with Making a False Declaration Mendooran Case Heard at Dubbo (Reprnited from Dubbo 'Liberal')
Acquitted on a charge of false pretence Frederick Charles Dow ton (44) of Mendooran. faced a second charge of making a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Substituted Pennies For Florins-Bank Teller Charged with £2755 Theft
Arthur Maxwell Lumsdaine (35), a teller employed by the Bank of New South Wales at its Manly branch, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Liquor Stealing Case
Arthur Walter Taylor (20), Leslie M. Rusden (29) and Cecil James Chant (30), charged with breaking and entering the Commercial Hotel at W[?]rren…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Billiard Room Assault Appeal Fails
At the District Court on Thursday last, before His Honour, Judge Shortland, Thomas Ewart appealed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Married Man Fined for Suspected Theft
Herbert Reginald Corney (24) pleaded guilty in the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., to a charge of having in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol for Man with Many Convictions Pleaded for Leniency
Colin Michael (29), convicted of several offences at the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, asked to be given the benefit of a deferred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Better To Be Late In This World Than Early in Next Magistrate To Motorist
"It is far better to be late in this world than early in entering the next." Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., spoke thus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft
Having goods in his custody suspected to have been stolen, and with stealing a kapok mattress, the property of H. Bradford, were charges preferred…
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At Taree Quarter Sessions, Alexander Campbell Anderson, 21, was sentenced, to five years hard labor for inflicting grievous bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fined for Theft Father of Eight Children Rebuked by Magistrate
When Harold Joseph Lees (46) ap-peared before Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., in the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, he hesitated for some time before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sent To Gaol Man Who Looked Through Window At Dubbo Home
For having been found in the yard atthe home of John Edward Neaglc, in Short Street, on the night of April 6, Nicholas Fox, an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged British Plot to Block River Danube Large Convoy Carried Explosives Rumanian Police Act London
The German official newsagency discloses an alleged "colossal British sabotage plot" to block the Danube by exploding hundreds of tons of dynamite in the Iron Gate Pass, damaging the banks and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gilgandra Police Court Only Two Cases Listed at Monthly Sitting
As only two cases were listed, Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., did not visit Gilgandra on Tuesday for the usual monthly Court sitting. The Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft Man Remanded on £40 Bail
John Marsh (42) appeared in the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, charged on three counts of having in his custody goods suspected to…
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Before Messrs A. J. Johnson and E. Barnett, J's P., on Saturday last at the Bourke Police Court, Wilfred McKeon and John Samuel Finn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Court
Mr. Justice Davidson presided at the Dubbo District Court which opened this morning. There were no Dubbo or district issues before the court. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Charged with Serious Offence Trial At Dubbo Orange Case
Before Mr. Justice Davidson in the Circuit Court at Dubbo to-day, Bede Patrick Murray (16) was charged with a serious offence against a 15-years-old…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Dubbo Night Prowler Sent to Gaol "Cunning and Crafty Criminal" Faced Five Charges Stolen Goods And False Pretence
Expressing the opinion that John James Marsh (42) was the night prowler who had been terrorising women in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Control
Sergeant Ormsby, in charge of the Wellington Police Station, reported that so far it was one of the quietest carnival weeks on record…
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