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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Police Seize Body From Funeral Parlors SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1946 · page 1

Detectives from the C.I.B. to-day visited the funeral parlors of Motor Funerals, Ltd. in the city, and seized a body…

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Wellington Man Charged With Murder Bail Of £500 Allowed Death of Victim Follows Sat. Evening Shooting Affray

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 May 1946 · page 1

AT about 6.30 p.m. on Saturday last, Henry Taverner (51), a farmer of Apsley, was admitted to the Wellington District Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the stomach, and, in spite of all possible surgical aid from…

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Court Martial. Ex-p.o.w. on Unusual Charge. Auckland, N.Z.

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 May 1946 · page 1

An unusual charge was preferred at a court martial here against Pte. William Tier. He was charged with having…

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Max Schmeling Sentenced HAMBURG

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

The Military Government Tribunal has sentenced former world boxing champion Max Schmeling to three months imprisonment, and fined him…

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Italian Generals Sentenced TRIESTE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

Two Italian Generals were found guitly, by an extraordinary court of Assizes, for banding over Trieste to the Germans after Italy's capitulation…

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Murder Charge at Wellington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

At the Wellington Police Court on May 13, Henry Noel Grace, Wellington grocer-farmer of Apsicy, was charged with the murder of Henry Taverner…

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Police and Prisons' Ball

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 4

All intending debutantes are asked to get in touch with Mr. F. Halloran, 110 Bultge Street, ('Phone 21) so that arrangements can be made for training…

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Hotel Licensee Charged

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 1

At Gilgandra Police Court before Mr. Hooke P. M., J. G. Curran, [?]icensec of the Royal Hotel, Gilgandra, was charged…

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Police Protest

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 10

Members of the Police Association protested vigorously at their annual conference, against the action of Judge Stacey in reducing…

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Poor Police Pay

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 8

Resignations by detectives from the N.S.W. Police Force have reached 24 since January. Latest resignation is Detective-Constable…

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Missing Rabbit Skins Young Man Before Court

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 3

Recently two Gilgandra, skin dealers lost rabbit skins from their premises on the same night and at the local court on…

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Anti T.B. Clinic for Country Police Youth Campaign To Run Two Buses(From Youth Campaign, Police Headquarters, Sydney)

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 10

Some years ago the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of N.S.W. decided that equal facilities for diagnosis for T.B. must be…

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Dead Body on Coonamable Road Two Miles Outside Dubbo Police Investigating

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 5

The body of a man was found lying on the side, of the road about two miles from Dubbo on the Coonamb'e road on Saturday evening. Ernest Raymond Carroll, who found…

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Withdrawal of Police. Comprehensive Review

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 15

The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. James F. Scott, wrote as follows to Captain Dunn, re withdrawal of police…

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Coroner's Court Hearing of Shooting Drama Story of Fateful Evening Unfolds Dramatic Evidence by Mrs. Taverner Intensive Cross-Examination of Crown Witnesses

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 1

THROUGHOUT Friday and Saturday of last week, a tense atmosphere prevailed in the Coroner's Court, held at Wellington to investigate the circumstances which led to the death of Henry Taverner, 51, farmer, who was fatally shot at Apsley on the evening of May…

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Police Forbid Cremation Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1946 · page 1

When a post-mortem yesterday failed to reveal the cause of death, police ordered that the body of Miss Nocla Gibb (19) should be buried and not…

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Police Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 9

In the Coonabarabran Summons Court last week the presiding magistrate, Mr. J. S. Hart, issued a warning to persons taking…

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Military Prison Mutineers Heavily Sentenced LONDON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 1

Sentences of the leaders of the mutiny in North Allerton military prison in March were promulgated yesterday. Nine offenders were sentenced to terms…

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“I Will Go to Gaol” Dramatic Outburst in Rabbit Case

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 8

“I will not pay the fine; on principle I cannot; I will go to goal rather than pay up.” This dramatic outburst, behind…

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Police Condemn Gelignite for Rabbit Destruction

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 5

The police are strongly opposed to a recent suggestion by a country rabbit inspector and published in the “Watchman,”…

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