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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Telephones at Police Station

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 7

The Coonabarabran Chamber of Commerce has received the following letter from the Police Commissioner’s office:…

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Police Officer at Tooraweenah Request By CWA Deferred

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 2

Toc[?]raweenach CWA request for Police protection cannot be considered until more policy are available, the…

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Posed As P.o.w. Secured Relief From R.s. League Man of Many Aliases Sent to Gaol for Six Months

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 1

A man known to the police by no less than nine names, was arrested in Gilgandra last week, and on Thursday afternoon appear[?]d before the Police Court and was sentenced to six months hard labour…

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Licensing Court. Re-building of Grand Hotel Rebuilding of Grand Hotel Ordered

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 1

Mr. J. B. Scobie, Chief Licensing Magistrate of Sydney, presided over the Licensing Court held in the Wellington Court House yesterday…

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Bourke Police Court

The Western Herald · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 1

The usual monthly Court was held in the Bourke Court House on Wednesday last, before Mr. A. G. Morgan, relieving Police…

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Royal Naval Ratings Sentenced Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 1

Sentences of ten years imprisonment were today imposed on two Royal Naval ratings on charges of assault and robbery while armed…

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Police Rout Strikers in Philadelphia Philadelphia

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 1

In a club-swinging melee lasting thirty minutes, police, on horseback, motor cycles, and patrol cars, routed 3000 strikers and sympathisers from…

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Stealing Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 5

Ernest Frederick Peel, labourer, appeared before Mr. A. G. Morgan, P.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday charged With stealing two towels,…

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Licensing Magistrate's Comments

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

After he had made an inspection of hotels in Narromine last Thursday, the chairman of licensing magistrates (Mr. J. B, Scobie) resumed his…

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Theft From Hotel

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

A thief entered a bedroom of a guest at the Imperial Hotel about 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Whilst in the act of removing…

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Threating Words Complaint Dismissed Caustic Court Comment

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 3

More trouble between the Perrins and the Chants, of Carrington Avenue, was settled before Mr. A. G. Morgan, P.M., in t[?] Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions…

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Dubbo Hospital Water Supply Reduction in Free Allowance Question of Municipal Finance Raised Should Bowling And Tennis Clubs Be Charged Water Rates?

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 5

A keen debate developed in Council at last Tuesday's meeting, when it was sought to give effect to the Finance Committee's recommendation for limiting free water supply to Dubbo Base Hospital to 65 gallons per day per inmate,…

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Police Court Further Remand Granted

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 6

In view of the absence of two main police witnesses, the Police Magistrate, Mr. W. K. Earls granted a further remand…

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Cowra Black Dragon Society Another Murder at P.O.W. Camp

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 12

The Cowra Coroner, Mr. F. Arnold, conducted an inquiry into the death of another Formosan prisoner of war on…

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Police Arrived Too Late Bernborough Emptied Till Before Raid

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 1

Raiding police who entered a Peak Hill barber's shop on a Starting Price betting raid found the S.P. man with only 6/4½ in his possession…

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Pensioner Struck by Car. Driver Charged

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

On Saturday afternoon last, Mr. George Taylor (78) pensioner, of Short Street, was struck by a car at the…

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ASSAULT & ROBBERY Committed for Trial

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 1

Charged with assaulting Maxwell Atkinson Baiicy, soldier, and robing him of the sum of £29 at Dubbo, on the night of Sunday,…

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Italian - Yugoslav Frontier Police and Villagers Clash Yugoslav Flag Flown in Allied Zone London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 1

A general strike in the British and American occupied zone on the Venezia Guilia, began at midnight on Sunday, after a clash between the inhabitants and the police in the village of Servela, says a report from Trieste…

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Sheep Stealing In Wyalong District

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 14 March 1946 · page 6

Sheep stealing in Weethalle district, near West Wyalong, is an "unbearbale racket," Mr., A. McInnes (Weethalle) told a…

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Brtish Military Court Death Sentence SINGAPORE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1946 · page 1

A British Military Court has imposed the death sentence on Cloves Osborne Woodford (51), a Eurasian, for collaboration during the…

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