Man's Third Gaol Term For Refusing Oath Sydney
At the Hornsby court today Mr. Oram, SM, told George Richmond Falconer (33), married, of Hornsby, a member of the Jehovah Witness…
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Courts & crime, 1943
399 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 4 of 20
Habitual Criminal, 36, Sent Back to Gaol With Eight Sentences
Starting in crime as a boy of 11 years in 1918, Albert Peckham, now 36 years of age, was declared an habitual criminal in 1930, and at the Dubbo police court yesterday was sentenced to a total of four years gaol when he pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo Visit Sequel Young Allied Soldier at Court-martial
Jack Robert Olsen, Allied army private, who will be remembered in Dubbo as the "social lion" who posed as Lieutenant Jack Doyle, appeared…
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Before the Bourke Police Court on Monday morning last Angus McLeod was charged with using obscene language, damaging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loitering of 800 Sheep Brings Fine For Grazier Magistrate Admits Not Serious Offence Paid Deterrent Fees and Was Proceeded Against
C[?]ferd William Trescowthick, president of Timbrebongle shire council, was [?]ed when he appeared before Mr. R. G. Cook[?] PM. at the Dubbo police court on Monday, charged with allowing 800 head of sheep to tr[?] on the stock reserve adjoining his Narromine property…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →20 Years Gaol Term Price of Escapade of Young American
Three months of freedom as a deserter from his unit, and his conduct during those three months, has cost an Allied soldier 20 years of his freedom. This was the sentence imposed upon him as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fought with Police Sensational Arrest Made at Hotel
A man wellknown to the police was arrested at a Dubbo hotel in sensational circumstances on Thursday evening. It is alleged that for 15 minutes he fought with two detectives in a parlor at the hotel before he was subsequently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destroyed by Fire Stuart Town Police Station
The Stuart Town Police Station was totally destroyed by a fire which occurred at about 11.30 o'clock last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Costly Fire Stuart Town Court, Police Station Gutted
The court house and police station at Stuart Town were, totally destroyed by fire late on Sunday night, and all records in both offices lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Depot £7000 Theft Allegation Sydney
Although he did not appear in person, Guy Lyth Lambert (48), deputy paymaster in the Army, at the Central Court today was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extraordinary People—pm Man, Always in Trouble, Loses Court Case
Declaring that the plaintiff, John Perrin, was always getting himself into trouble and trying to get other people into trouble, and that if he continued with his habits and was allowed to remain at large something serious would happen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stuart Town Police Station Burned No Water Available Commotion In Village
The weather during the past week had been warm, to hot and oppressive, and following the previous cool to cold snaps, it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Army Registration As Sequel to Court Rejection of Case
As the result of the important ruling given by Mr. R. G. Cookson, PM, in the case against Thomas Schultz, of Cobar, when he ruled that he had no jurisdiction to proceed with the hearing of a charge of failure to enrol preferred against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol Wall Collapses and Kills Seven
Dublin, Friday: Seven were killed, two missing and 17 injured when the wall of a gaol at Waterford collapsed on eight houses, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Terms and Fines for Drunkenness
Insobriety in Dubbo led to the appearance of four persons In the police court yesterday morning. Boasting a second Christian name…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unattractive To Army, Youth Sent to Gaol
"If you had been in the Army and dour your job I might have considered granting yon a bond, but I don't suppose the Army wants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault of Cafe Man Ends in £5 Fine
A dispute in a cafe in Talbragar Street, Dubbo, on Saturday evening was costly for Athol Keith King (21), serviceman, when he appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two years Gaol Sentence For Young Soldiers: Jury Lenient Says Judge
Although acquitted on a charge of attempted rape of a young woman at North Dubbo on the night of November 29, Robert John McBain (18), soldier, was convicted of an alternative dount of committing an act of indecency against the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manpower Shortage Limits Jurors at Court
Shortage of manpower troubled even Judge Shortland at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions yesterday, when he found that only 18 jurors had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Alleges Fight Staged by Police As Stunt in Arrest
Although two detectives told how they had struggled in the upstairs parlor of the Great Western Hotel, Dubbo, with Joseph Charies MacArthur (36), who appeared at the Quarter Sessions yesterday, MacArthur described it as "all nonsense."…
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