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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

408 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 15 of 21

Gaol Closure Talk Gains More Ground

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1944 · page 2

Rumors still persist that the Dubbo goal might be closed, notwithstanding the statement of the Minister for Justice (Mr. Downing) when he visited Dubbo recently It is said that for some weeks inquiries have been in…

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174 Nazi Sympathisers Charged in America

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1944 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Friday.-The Justice Department has announced the in[?]dfi of 174 German aliens in the lotted States on charges of…

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One Police Inspector Goes, One to Stay

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1944 · page 2

Inspector E. G. Druitt, who has been in charge of the Dubbo police, is to succeed Inspector J. Roach as officer-in-charge of the Dubbo police…

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Found in Room, Memory Gone Police Probe Mystery Of Unconscious Girl

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1944 · page 4

Dubbo police are investigating injuries suffered by a 17-years-old girl who was found unconscious in a locked room at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday afternoon. She is now in the Dubbo Base Hospital suffering from…

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Attempted Murder Count Preferred Against Boy, 15

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 1

Before the children's court at Nyngan tomorrow a 15-years-old boy will be charged with attempted murder of a station employee near Nyngan. It is alleged that a stolen…

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Police Superintendence Returned to Parkes

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 5

The police superintendent's office, which was recently removed from Parkes to Orange, was returned to Parkes yesterday and Superintendent Willis…

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Police Express Concern at Frequent Breaches

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 4

When Frederick Carlson (47), laborer, appeared before Mr. W. A. Hicks, CM, at the Dubbo police court yesterday, charged with…

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Tenders Being Called For Court Improvements

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 6

Tenders are toeing invited for the works to the front of the Dubbo Court House. A new entrance to the gaol is to be…

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Police Court Matron Wins Nurse To Pay Claim

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 September 1944 · page 3

The case in which Matron Sauzier, of Allanville private hospital, proceeded against Beryl Ryan, a nursing…

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Man Remanded Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 September 1944 · page 1

A man named William Joseph Mitchell, of Mumbil, was assaulted and robbed on Tuesday last, and received a severe…

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Six Months' Gaol Young Man's Grave Lapse Case From Tooraweenah

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 September 1944 · page 1

"I have said before, and I repeat it here, that girls below the consenting age of 16 years have to be…

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Bourke Police Court Car Stealing Case

The Western Herald · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 1

Before the Police Magistrate, Mr. R. C. Cookson, on Monday evening last, Leslie William Langly and Raymond Leonard Cussen were…

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Court Case from Bourke Robert Herbert St. Clare Sentenced to Five Years Gaol

The Western Herald · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 5

Robert Herbert St. Clare (22), found guilty by a jury of 12 in the Dubbo Supreme Court on Thursday September 14 of the malicious…

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First Taxi Breaches in Police Court Form

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1944 · page 4

In what Mr. L. M. Whiteley described as the first case of its kind to bo prosecuted in the country, Arthur Ashley Douglas was fined 14/6…

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British Crash Through Waal Line to Assistance of Airborne Troops Second Army Launches Assault On Arnhem; Hard Siegfried Fights

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.-Crossing the Nijmegen Bridge over the Waal River (the Rhine of Holland), which Allied air borne troops captured before the German defenders could touch off the demolition charges they had set under the…

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Police Court Offer to Bribe Police

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 September 1944 · page 3

The P.M. (Mr. G. W. Brown) presided at the Police Court on Tuesday of last week, when the police proceeded…

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Attempted Murder Charge Reduced

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 4

A charge ol attempted murder was reduced to one of attempted shooting at the Nyngan children's court when a 15-year-old boy…

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All-out Assault Begun by Allies Against Calals

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 1

London, Tuesday: An all-out assault has been launched against the Channel port of Calais, where Canadian troops after capturing Escalles Fortress, four miles to the southeast, have stormed the general emplacements holding the great…

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Municipal, Shire Rolls Certified by Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 2

The revision court for the Municipality of Dubbo and Shire of Talbragar was held before Mr. R. G. Cookson, PM, at the Dubbo court house…

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Tambar Assault Case

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 28 September 1944 · page 1

Before Mr. Meagher, P.M., at Gunnedah Police Court last Friday week, Henry Osborne, of Tambar Springs, was charged with unlawfully…

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