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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
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ONE OF THE MOST SENSATIONAL AND MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES EVER TO OCCUR IN THIS DISTRICT TOOK PLACE AT BUGALDIE ON XMAS MORNING, WHEN A BOY NAMED DESMOND CLARKE, AGED 2½ YEARS,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following police promotions were announced to-day: Constable first-class, L. J. Marsh, of Wellington; C. K. Hollingshed, Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is authoritatively stated in military circles in London that, while there is no particular reason for thinking that Bardia will fall or the garrison surrender immediately, preparations are being steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The new year has commenced quietly in Dubbo. The police court sitting before Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., yesterday, was the shortest for some months,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First-Class Constable Evans wag about early Wednesday morning warning people along the river that a flood was expected, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death took place at the residence of her grandmother, Mrs. Morris Swift Street, on Monday afternoon, of, Valda Dawn Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Risking their lives, Constables A. Vale and Foster, with the aid of a boat, rescued a 70-years-old pensioner from the roof of a submerged shed on the river bank at South Dubbo at 6 a.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The search for the mission boy Clark, aged two years and three months, who disappeared mysteriously at Bugaldie on Christmas morning, is going on apace. A large posse of police are still scouring the scrub around the town and for a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During the height of the flood in the Bell River on Tuesday last there were several exciting rescues by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The hearing concluded at the Kogarah police court to-day of a case in which Leo Graham Johnston (35), poultry farmer, of Menai, is charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An aerodrome 30 miles west of the important Italian naval base at Tobruk has been captured, states a British General Headquarters communique from Cairo. In a raid before the British forces…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Edmund Hensley, who until recently was licensee of the Talbragar Street, wine saloon, was found hiding behind a door when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I will ant arsenic in your guttering and poison the three of you. Mrs. Anderson has offered me £5 to do so," was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A plea of not guilty was entered by John Morris Hoern at the Gilgandra Police Court ofn Tuesday, when charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A charge against Daniel Michael McMahon, for having stolen a whip at Wellington on November 28th last, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Conn Edward Coombes (19) was charged at the Central police court to-day with imposition in an attempt to gain employment in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During 1940 the Dubbo police and small debts court sittings handled a record volume of cases. However, there was a decided falling-off in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Henry Rowbotham, a young Dubbo man, refused to give his name, after being found on the premises of the Macquarie View…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"It's a full month since you were last before the court. That is quite good for you," declared Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Detectives to-day commenced their preparation of an answer to a Supreme Court writ issued yesterday for the return of the body of the Albury…
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