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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Indian Jewellery Theft Hyderabad

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 1

Jewellery valued at £127,500, including heirlooms, some of them 200 years old, were reported stolen on Wednesday night from the residence of the…

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Gaol Escapee Sentenced Six Months Hard labor For Absconding One Month for Stealing While at Large

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1946 · page 3

Thomas John Winning, alias Joseph Bowden, alias William Strachan (27), laborer, was sentenced to six months hard labor by Mr. G. C. Hook, P.M., at the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, for absconding from the Dubbo…

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Timber Stealing Case Two Defendants Fined £10 Each a Third Placed on Two-Years' Bond Military Authorities Recover the Timber

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1946 · page 4

The case in which Norman Adolphus Howe, Harley Robert Howe, Noel Dudley Howe, Gordon Kelby Howe, and Theodore Jack Howe, were charged with stealing a quantity of timber valued at £5 from the Dubbo military camp on…

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Foreign Ministers Making Progress Rioting Breaks Out in Trieste Jeep Police Patrols to Control Mob Paris

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1946 · page 1

M. Molotov, during a three-hour meeting of Foreign Ministers yesterday evening, agreed with M. Bidault's proposals for Trieste, and the Italian-Yugoslav Frontier could be taken as the basis for discussion, subject to a Russian…

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Police Court Verdict for Plaintiff

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 6

As a sequel to a collision between a motor car and a motor truck in Percy Street on the 8th December last, J. W. Travena,…

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"To Save The Nation" Stern Action by Criminal Court Against Striking "Basher" "Direct Action Means Bloody Revolution Arbitration! Court Must Be Upheld Brisbane

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 1

Defiance of the Arbitration Court, and direct action, meant nothing else than bloody revolution, and the courts would insist that it would not happen in Australia, declared Mr. Justice Brennan in the Criminal Court, yesterday, when…

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Latest Telegrams Customs Officials and Police Confiscate Large Amount of Smuggled Goods From Liner "Monterey." Goods Missing on Board Liner. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 1

As a result of raids on the Matson Liner, Monterey, when more than 60,003 American cigarettes, nylon stockings and other goods…

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Country Police Promotions Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 1

Of 159 promotions in the N.S.W. police force, announced today, only 43 are in country areas. They include the following:—…

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False Pretences and Forgery Gaol Escapee Sentenced

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 1

Thomas John Winning (27), laborer, pleaded guilty to three charges of false pretences and to three of forgery before His Honor, Judge Shortland, at…

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Nine Months' Imprisonment For Assault and Robbery

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 1

Before His Honor, Judge Shortland, at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions this morning, Leslie Walter Hartas (19). soldier, of Dubbo, was…

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House Used for Betting Raided by Police

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 3

At the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. G. C. Hook, P.M., yesterday, Ernest Bert Bryant (19), clerk, and Jack Bolton…

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Police Under Strength Crime Wave Increases LONDON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 1

While Scotland Yard and metropolitan and provincial police forces remain 20,000 men under strength, they face the record number of 21 unsolved…

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Arrested at Gun Point Police Make Four Raids Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 6

In four raids yesterday, police arrested seven men and charged them at Newtown Police Station last night with having stolen goods valued at £13,500…

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Mr. Bevin Attacks Russia Failure to Fulfil Economic Clauses of Potsdam Agreement New Proposals for Germany Russia Charged with Grabbing Paris

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 1

After charging Russia with failing to fulfil the economic clauses of the Potsdam Agreement, the British Foreign Minister (Mr. Bevin) submitted to the Foreign Ministers' Conference proposals for the treatment of Germany as a…

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New Police Superintendent for Dubbo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 1

Superintendent S. G. Pamenter, accompanied by Mrs. Pamenter, has arrived in Dubbo, from Wollongong, to take over the responsibilities of the…

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Better Conditions for Police Country Party Favours Independent Tribunal

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 3

When the Bill to give the Police Force access to the Arbitration Court was, before the Legislative Assembly, the Leader of the Country Party (Lt.-Col. Bruxner) said he would not oppose the measure, but he thought better results would…

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Run on Belfast Bank Armed Police on Guard LONDON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 1

Business men, shopkeepers, and holidaymakers, drew over 25-million sterling from Belfast banks in a few hours, following a threat by bank clerks to…

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Hotel Manager Faces Murder Charge. MELBOURNE

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 1

John Thomas Carroll (31), labourer, who lived with his wife at Strathbogie, near Euroa, received a shotgun…

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Double Murder? Two Bodies Recovered from River. MELBOURNE

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 1

Following the recovery of two bodies from the Barwon River at Geelong yesterday, police are investigating the possibility of…

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Sentenced to Death Gen. Mikhailovitch and Chetniks BELGRADE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 1

General Mikhailovitch and other Chetniks sentenced to death yesterday, were given eight and a half hours in which to appeal. They were told that…

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