Police Transfer Objection
At the annual meeting of the Coonabarabran Labour Party, held last Sunday, it was decided to write to the Commissioner for Police…
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Courts & crime, 1945
322 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 17
Bourke Police Court
The usual Monthly Court was held in the Court House, Bourke, on Monday evening last before Mr. T. H. Brooke, Police Magistrate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Coupon Theft
In an effort to frustrate the gang believed to be responsible for the theft of 300,000 butter coupons from the Rationing Commission in Sydney…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police inquiries into the disappearance of 252 boxes of butter in the city, on February 5, took a new turn last night when a man was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bodily Harm Charge Reduced to Assault
A charge of occasioning grievous bodily harm, preferred against George John Mervyn Dunn (30), laborer, of Fitzroy Street, Dubbo. was reduced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo Police Promoted One New Sergeant
Sgt. C. V. Gentle of the Dubbo police has been promoted to second-class rank. Constable Redfern has been elevated to the rank of sergent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Before Court
Before Mr. W. A. Hicks, C.M., at the Dubbo Police Court yesterday Albert Charles Luland (19), was charged with having an unlicensed pistol in his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Have Sheep for Sale Taking Possession Of During Recent Investigations
In this issue it is notified that about 90 sheep, at present held by the police, Will be sold by auction at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Months' Gaol For Spirit Merchant
TOWNSVILLE, Friday. — Fraser Henleins Ltd., Townsville, wholesale wine and spirit merchants, were fined £2000, and ordered to pay £101 costs,…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jury Acquits Man Charged With Causing Bodily Harm
Following a brief retirement on Tuesday afternoon a jury at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions found Claude Alexander Stevonson (40), carrier, of Gilgandra, not guilty of having occasioned actual bodily harm to Francis Noel Rohr, shearer, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jumped the Rattler a Smart Police Catch
Unfortunately for Robert Ronald Luck, his luck was out, when he jumped off a goods train from Baradine, arriving at Coonabarabran last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dubbo Police, Prisons Staff and Fire Brigade Officers to Aid Hospital
Another special effort, in which the Dubbo police, firemen and prisons department officers will be associated, will be held this year, for the benefit of the Base Hospital. This decision was made at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Former Dubbo Police Chief To Retire
SYDNEY, Friday.—The retirement of a number of police has made the reorganisation of the police force necessary, A reshuffle of senior officers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roatta Sentenced To Life by Puree Court
ROME, Tuesday.—The Purge Court has sentenced General Roatta to life imprisonment, in absentia. Roatta recently escaped from a gaol hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£250 Robbery Police Make Arrest
A raid by Det-Sgt. J. A. Burke and Constable Vale at Gilgandra on Saturday recovered £60, alleged to be part of the proceeds of a £250 cash robbery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine of £30 and Two Months Gaol for Youth U.S. Pistol, Rifles, Ammunition in Possession
"I would be failing in my duty if I did not impose a penalty which would serve as a deterrent to others," said Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at Dubbo Police Court yesterday. He sentenced Albert Charles Louland (19), to two months'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →River-bank Party Leads to Young Airman's Appearance in Court
As a sequel to a drinking party on the bank of the Macquarie river, near Molong Bridge, on February 28, L.A.C. Norman Herbert McArthur (19) was charged at Dubbo Police Court yesterday with having assaulted Katherine Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court, Gilgandra, on Tuesday, John B. Kelleher proceeded against Charles James Ferguson for an amount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft of £250 Gilgandra Man Remanded Bail Fixed At £80
At the Gilgandra Police Court On Tuesday, a local resident, Edward Francis Cocil Wheatley was charged with, about…
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