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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Police Court Man Fined for Drunken Driving

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 September 1946 · page 12

In the Wellington Police Court, before Mr. W. K. Earls, P.M., on Tuesday morning, William John Hartin, tabourer…

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Pleads Guilty To Three Murder Charges CHICAGO

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1946 · page 1

William Heirens pleaded guilty to the murders of Suzanne Degnan, Mrs. Josephine Ross, and Frances Brown, to which he had already confessed…

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Bulli Murder Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1946 · page 1

Mervyn Garvie (39), labourer, was remanded tn September 13, at Central Police Court to-day, on a charge of murdering Cecil John Kelly, at Bulli,…

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Supreme Court Sittings Postponed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1946 · page 1

The circuit sittings of the Supreme Court have been adjourned from Tuesday, next September 10 to October 15. Attendance of jurors at the Cri[?]al…

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Breaches of Liquor Act Three Defendants Before The Court Pastoral Hotel Case

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 September 1946 · page 4

Inquiries being made by Dubbo police, into the alleged theft of a coat, led to the charging of three men with offences under the Liquor Act, at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. G. C. Hook, P.M…

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Two Young Men Arrested Charges at Coona Police Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 8

Two young men, George Anthony Walker, 21 years, a salesman, and Norman Lawrence Faulkiner, 23, salesman, were…

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Murder Trial Postponed

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 1

The Dubbo sitting of the Supreme Court, which was set down for this week, has been abandoned, and in consequence…

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Grand Police Ball

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 11

A final reminder Is given that the Grand Police Ball, being organised by the Coonabarabran police to assist the Anti-T.B. Fund…

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Big Court List for

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 8

A large number of cases are listed for hearing at the Coonabarabran Police Court on Tuesday next…

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Hollebone Before the Court. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 13 September 1946 · page 1

At the Central Police Court William Hollebone, 50, a Labourer. was charged with the murder of Douglas George Graves…

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Squatters In Luxury Flats Communist Threat Mounted Police Clear the Roadway London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 1

Mounted Police charged demonstrating "squatters" outside Abbey Lodge, at Regent Park, according to an Exchange Telegraph report. The Police drove into surging masses, after fighting…

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Smart Work by Police Lead To Court Proceedings

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 8

Whether it was a “hunch” on the part of Coonabarabran police that led to the arrest and subsequent conviction of two young men for stealing goods valued at £4, the property of Edward William Sullivan, at Binnaway on August 31, we know…

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Woman Charged with Receivings [?]

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 2

Marjory Joyce Wheatley, was charged at Gilgandra Police Court last week, before Mr. Hook, P.M., with at…

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Magistrate Reserves Decision Legal Point Raised

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 5

John Edwin Finley pleaded not guilty at the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, when he was charged before Mr. G. C. Hock, P.M.,…

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Country Robberies Cleaned Up Two Local Men Plead Guilty To Stealing Three Others Convicted Of Receiving Robbries at Homestead Two Men Sentenced

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 2

At Gilgandra Police Court on Thursday last, Albert Edward Looney and Stanley. James Egan were charged with stealing various articles from the homes of G. M. McKellar…

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Not Guilty Magistrate Gives Reserv’d Decision

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 8

In dismissing the charge of street betting against Francis David Harper at the Coonabarabran police court on Tuesday,…

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Two Local Men Charged with Receiving One Discharged—the Other Fined

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 2

On a charge of receiviny goods, well known ing them to have been stolen, John Richard Coven try, a Gilgandra billiard room keeper, was fined 10 ir 20 days hard labour at Gilgandra Police…

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Monthly Court and C.p.s. Assistant Needed

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 8

The futility of attempting to deal with the number of cases coming before the Coonabarabran Police Court by the…

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Married Girl Sent to Gaol Twelve Months On Stealing Charges

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 1

An 18-year-old Lismore girl, Yvonne Beryl Boxall, who left her husband and was sentenced to a gaol term for her part in two car thefts, failed today to get bail, pending the hearing of an appeal against her sentence…

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Assault on Female

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 6

Before Mr. A. Paton, J.P., at the Dubbo Police Court on Thursday", Murga John Smith (20), labourer, was charged with unlawfully assaulting a…

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