Stealing Melons
Before the local Court on Monday last three young men (two aged 26 years and one aged 29 years) were found guilty of stealing melons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1947
440 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 2 of 22
New Court Houses
The municipal council At Narromine and Peak Hill have both decided to ask for the erection of new COurt Houses. Both are old…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charged with Wife Murder Sydney, Friday
Charged with having murdered his wife on Now Year's Day, Arthur Redvers Hayne (47) telegraphist, of Summer Hill, was present in custody at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Former Minister for Justice on Trial for Murder London
Evidence that he had assisted in the "capture" of a man whose body was later discovered in a Surrey chalk pit, and that he had been then handed £200 sterling by Thomas John Ley, a former N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Notes
All the Dubbo Police Court yesterday morning Roy Pilon was fined £2 with 5'6 costs by Mr. G. C. Hook, P.M., for driving without a license…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South African Communists Charged With Sedition CAPETOWN
South African Communists tried to build up a proletarian army, the ultimate object of which was to overthrow the Government and substitute a Communist regime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Mothers in Court (Continued from Page 1)
But you had a good view?—They were all bunched together. All right. Now I'm not going to try and trick you so don't worry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Men Before Court On 19 Charges Over False Cheques
"According to your record you are not a new hand at this game," said the magistrate, Mr. G. C. Hook, P.M., when he sentenced William Thomas Munday to one month's hard labour for stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Mothers in Court Wounds From Stick and Belt Alleged in Street Fight
The Trangie Police Court was crowded on Friday last when interested came to hear the result of an affray that happened last November. Mrs. Isobel Eliza Lincoln was the defendant in a case in which she was accused by Mrs. Jane Walsh and her daughter Dawn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Theft of Potatoes. Month's Gaol for Half-caste Brothers
Convicted at the Wellington Police Court on Tuesday morning on a charge of stealing four bags of potatoes to a total…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Court
The following cases (together with others reported elsewhere in this issue) were called at the Coonabarabran Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Licensing Court
At the Wellington Licensing Court on Tuesday morning last, the P.M., Mr. W. K. Earls, granted [?] booth license to Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →District News Trangie Tenancy Court Case
At Trangie Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. G. C. Hook, P.M., there was heard a tenancy case of general interest at the present time, in view of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Fined for Hindering Police
A man who was alleged to have tried to pull away from the police a man who was being arrested was brought before Mr. Hook, PM, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Trial Of Former Australian State Minister LONDON
A bank clerk told the West London police court, when the hearing of charges of murder against a former N.S.W. Minister, Thomas John Ley, and Lawrence John Smith, was resumed, that certain sums of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Transfers
Besides the transfer of Senior for Constable A. E. McLaughlin from Coonabarabran to the charge of Port Macquarie, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Assaulted Police Young Man Handcuffed and Gaoled One Month’s Imprisonment Imposed
Residents of King Street, Coonabarabran, were entertained and shocked last Monday evening, just before dark when young Alfred Charles Milligan, a 23-years-old laborer, put on a “show” with the police. Milligan was the “star” artist while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bourke Police Court Three Men Committed for Trial. Two Lorries and Material Allegedly Stolen
Before the Police Magistrate, Mr. G. C. Hook, on Tuesday evening last, the usual Monthly Court was held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Magistrate's Warning
Warning defendant before the Court, ami anybody else who entered into a bond, to appear at court, that Magistrate, Mr. G. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Trial Of Former N.S.W. Minister Ley LONDON
The magistrate decided that Miss Kathleen Mary Ingleson, of Surrey, formerly private secretary to Thomas John Ley, former N.S.W. Minister of Justice, should be treated as a hostile witness, when the hearing of charges against Ley and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →