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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
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Russians moving steadily to the west in the Caucasus by daybreak yesterday reached the vicinity of Kirsavka, while the highly mobile right wing, pushed through fog, snow and sleet to reach the highway connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Henry Cummings (63) was sentenced to one month's gaol when he was convicted, before Messrs. C. Phillips and H. G. Coleman. J's.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"There is an epidemic of stealing from railway platforms and one has to watch everything, otherwise it will just[?]lly away, and that applies to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New treatment was administered to several old offender "drunks" when they appeared before Mr. D. F. Parker. PM, at the Dubbo police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. R. Donaldson had a very short fitting at the Police Court on Tuesday morning last, most of the cases listed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Charged with stealing a wristlet watch, valued at £8, the properly of Christopher Mitchell Shakespeare, Sydney Edward Gillan (22), soldier,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Before Mr. R. G. Cookson, Police Magistrate, on Tuesday last, the usual monthly Court was held in the Bourke Court House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders, plainly endorsed, and addressed to the District Engineer, Bourke, will be received up till 2 p.m. on Thursday, 26th January,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo courts were called upon to deal with 87 juveniles during the year 1942, 65 of the cases being proceeded with, while in the remaining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was a further increase in the number of cases of drunkenness dealt with at Dubbo during last year. A total of 346 cases was dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although there was a general increase in the lower court work during the year 1942, there was an absence of major crime, despite the big…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When a case came before the Federal Arbitration Court concerning a demarcation dispute between boilermakers and shipwrights at Cockatoo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First person convicted in Victoria under the Black Marketing Act, James Mcleod, proprietor of a men's store in Bourke Street, city, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty-two Lithgow “students” received a painful surprise the other night, when a school they were attending was raided by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged to have been found in bed with a soldier and to have consorted with Soldiers on the riverbank at Dubbo, a young girl, aged 13 years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If the Commissioner for Police (Mr MacKay) continues to defy the State Government it is expected that steps will be taken to dismiss him. As the law stands at present, Mr. MacKay can be dismissed only by resolution, of both Houses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Frank Thomas Schultz of Cobar, who was discharged by Mr. R. G. Cookson, PM, after he appeared before the Cobar notice court in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three first offenders, 18-years-old soldiers, were each sentenced to three months' gaol, with hard labor, when they pleaded guilty, before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When a case of stealing was called at the Dubbo police court yesterday the Bench was informed by Detective J. A. Bourke and Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Percy Cullan (37) was fined £2, in default four days gaol, when he appeared before Mr. R. G. Cookson, PM, at the Dubbo police court yesterday,…
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