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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Court Shorts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 5

The following cases were heard at yesterday's sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions. Remanded to Gilgandra…

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Dictatorial Powers of Arbitration Court Judges Melbourne, Tuesday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 1

Judge Foster told the constitutional Club yesterday that three Judges of the Arbitration Court had dictatorial power over…

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Our Serial Story Murder is Forgetful Characters of this story

The Western Herald · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 2

JOHNNY SAXON, a Private Investigator in a business with MOE MARTIN his aged uncle are engaged on a case concerning…

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Latest Telegrams Nationalisation of Banks Bill to Be Challenged in High Court.... Record Price of 71d. for Greasy Wool. Opposition to Nationalisation of Banks. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 1

Immediately the Federal Government's Bill to nationalise private banks becomes law it will be challenged in the High Court…

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Local Police Tightening Up on Traffic Regulations

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 October 1947 · page 1

One motor cyclist and a cyclist were "booked" by the Wellington Police during the week-end for…

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Assault on Policeman Brings 21 Days

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 3

"It is obvious that the defendant is living on the border line of sanity and insanity. It is not right that a person living on that borderline be at large among the public," the Magistrate, Mr. G. C. Hook said when sentencing Robert Renwick…

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Court Shorts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 3

Cases heard before Mr. G. C. Hook, S.M., at the silting of the Court of Petty Sessions on Monday. Alleged Assault…

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Man Sentenced To Six Months Gaol On Vagrancy Charge

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 23 October 1947 · page 3

In the Coonabasabran Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, Sergeant Auld told how he had received a visit from a young boy who told him that man was waitiny outside his homt to “beat up his father because he had refused to buy…

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Our Serial Story— Murder is Forgetful Characters of this story

The Western Herald · Friday 24 October 1947 · page 2

JOHNNY SAXON, a Private Investigator in a business with MOE MARTIN his aged uncle are engaged on a case concerning…

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Laughter in Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1947 · page 3

Wife at Highgate: I reproved my husband for saying that I was crying when tears of alughter were coming from my eyes…

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Design To Establish Censorship Police In U.S. Lake Success

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1947 · page 1

Speaker after speaker in the Assembly Political Committee, today assailed the Soviet's resolution for stifling alleged "warmongering." Warren Austin (United States) said the…

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Man for Trial on Sheep Stealing Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1947 · page 5

As a result of a police court hearing at Gilgandra, William Patrick Kelly (40) was committed for trial at Dubbo Quarter Sessions on November…

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Court Shorts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1947 · page 1

Cases before Mr. G. C. Hook, S. M., at the Court of Petty Sessions Dubbo, yesterday, included: Six For Drunkenness…

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Youthful Thief Has Sympathy Of Police

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1947 · page 6

Charles Alexander McKenzie (20), labourer, of no fixed abode, was arraigned before the Court of Petty Sessions at Dubbo, yesterday on charges of insufficient means of support and stealing a watch, the property of John Foley, of Sydney,…

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Police Court Week-end Offences

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 7

Monday produced one of the largest court lists for Acting Magistrates, Messrs. T. N. Ayling and…

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Lost Property Office at the Police Station

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 2

There is an old adage which says if you want to know anything—ask a policeman. To that Sergeant Auld adds that if you hav[?] lost anything call in at the police station, it might be there. He has many piec[?]s of lost property…

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District Court Jury Supports Local Doctor's Diagnosis of Cause of Railway Employee's Heart Attack

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 1

AT the Wellington District Court this morning, a jury of four local residents accepted the medical opinion of Dr. Glasson as against the opinion of Dr. Brown, a Railways Department Assistant Medical Officer, that coronary occlusion could be caused by physical exertion, and they accordingly found in favour of Francis John…

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Bourke Police Court

The Western Herald · Friday 31 October 1947 · page 4

The usual monthly Court was held on Wednesday, Oct 29, before Mr. G. C. Hook, S.M. Cases dealt with were as follows:—…

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Our Serial Story— Murder is Forgetful Characters of this story

The Western Herald · Friday 31 October 1947 · page 2

JOHNNY SAXON, a Private Investigator in a business with MOE MARTIN his aged uncle are engaged on a case concerning…

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Monopoly Conspiracy Charged Against Investment Bankers WASHINGTON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 1

The Attorney General, Tom Clark, has announced the filing of an anti-trust suit against seventeen of the largest investment and banking firms in New York, says the Associated Press…

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