Street Free-for-all Has Court Sequel
Arising out of a wrestling exhibition in Talbragar Street, two men appeared at the Dubbo police court yesterday and pleaded guilty to a…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Soldiers Gaoled on Assault Count
Robert Bruce Weldon (22) and Sidney John Foster (18), two soldiers, were sentenced to 12 months and nine months' gaol with hard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Years Prison for Soldiers After Ferocious Assault
"This is one of the worst cases of assault that I have ever had to deal with," said Judge Shortland at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions this morning when he sentenced Gilbert Taylor (24), a first offender, and Lewis Walter Barber (22),…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jury Acquits Nyngan Man On Charge of Assault
After a retirement of less than 30 minutes a jury at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions yesterday acquitted Victor George Murray (39), who was charged with having, at Nyngan on December 11, occasioned actual bodily harm to Ernest Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazis' Land and Air Assault Lessen On Anzio Beachhead London
Baulked at every attempt to gain ground, and weakened by casualties, the Germans have slackened off land and aerial activity around Anzio beachhead and even their longrange shelling has declined in intensity, says Reuter's correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Pyjama Girl" Case Court Thronged to Hear Charge Melbourne
An excited crowd thronged the City court today to hear Antonio Agostini (41) remanded until March 15 on a charge of having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Girl, Boy Located Then Star in Drama in Court
Missing from their home in Sydney since Monday of last week, a girl aged 14 years and a boy aged 10 were arrested at Dubbo in remarkable circumstances. The girl subsequently figured in a disturbance at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court Magistrate Visits Gilgandra
Mr. Wells (Sydney), L.M., presided at the Licensing Court held at Gilgandra on Friday last, the licensee of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£40 Theft Allegation Against Runaway Girl
A 14-years-old girl who ran away from her Sydney home with her 10-years-old brother appeared at the children's court in Dubbo on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Vendor's Appeal On Assault Upheld
At the Dubbo Quarter Sessions Appeals Court yesterday the appeal of Sydney Mawbey, milk vendor, against his convition and fine at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Before the P.M., Mr. G. W. Brown)
At the Police Court on Tuesday morning last a man named George Griffiths was charged with being drunk and with indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Brother Arrested Charged with Manslaughter Sydney
Following, the death in hospital from a fractured skull on Saturday night of William Henry Sealby, aged 23 years of Botany, his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Soldiers Remanded On Car Theft Charge
Two soldiers who appeared before Mr. W.A. Hicks, CM. at Dubbo police court this morning, were remanded, at the request of the police,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Awl Men Gaoled for Theft of Cases Clothes
Two soldiers described as being AWL. were each sentenced to one month's gaol with hard labor when they appeared before Mr R.G…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Member Accused of "Thunder Stealing" Mayor of Coonamble Critical
At Coonamble Municipal Council meeting the Mayor (Ald. J. W. Green) referred to a letter appearing in the "Times" of recent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Goes on Hunger Strike
London, Friday.—The "entire prison population of Londonderry Gaol, numbering 100 internees from Belfast, has been on a hunger strike since…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Stripped of Tyres In Mean Roadside Theft
A motor car which was left parked on the Obley road overnight last week was stripped of three tyres, tubes and rims…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecking of Rail Trike Probed by Police
Police are investigation the wrecking of a railway tricycle near Maryvale early yesterday morning, when the mail train to Duhbo crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Charged with Promise Failure Sydney
The secretary to the Graziers' Federal council (Mr. Allen) today charged the Federal Government with failure to fulfil its promise that graziers'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Court
His Honour (Judge Shortland) presided at the Wellington District Court this morning, but the list was a light one, only one case…
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