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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Corfu Mines Dispute For International Court Lake Success, (New York)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 1

The Security Council at Britain's request, has sent the dispute with Albania, about the mining of the Corfu Channel to the International Court of Justice. Eight delegates voted for the British resolution, and Russia, Poland, and Britain…

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Protests Against Transfer Of Police Sergeant

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 9

Many Peak Hill organisations are moving in protest against the proposed transfer of Sergeant A. J. Keogh…

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Coats Stolen From Parked Cars Recovered By Narromine Police

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

Coats that disappeared from cars parked in Narromine on Saturday last were exhibited in the Narromine Police Court on Tuesday…

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Police Warning on Statistical Returns

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 5

A police officer yesterday issued a warning to farmers and pastoralists that Agricultural Dairying and Pastoral…

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Police Search for Escaped Prisoner

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 1

An intensive search is being conducted by police under the direction of Superintendent Parmenter and Inspector W. H. Johnson, for a…

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Fulton's Obtain Liquor License Magistrate Impressed by District Population Increase of 4000 Since 1932

The Wellington Times · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 1

FOLLOWING a full day's hearing of evidence at the Wellington Licensing Court on Friday last, the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. V. H. Wells, granted a Spirit Merchant's license to Mr. Clyde William Fulton, of Lee Street…

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F. and S. Protest at Police Transfer

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 3

The Peak Hill branch of the F. and S. Association, on Saturday, decided that a protest be sent to the Commissioner of Police and to the…

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Cattle Stealing Case Before W'ton Court To-morrow

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

Alleged to have stolen some cattle, a man was arrested during the week-end, released on bail and will appear at the…

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Cigarette Refusal Leads to Assault Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

Arising out of an incident said to have occurred some time previously, John Coxsedge was alleged, on April 12, to have entered the Valencia Cafe and, going behind…

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Stuart Town Resident on Cattle Stealing Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 3

A prominent resident of Stuart Town has been arrested by police and charged with cattle stealing and with an offence under the Pastures Protection Act. It is understood that the man ap-…

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Reports From the Divorce Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 3

Eight undefended cases in divorce were heard before Mr. Justice Street at the Dubbo Divorce Court yesterday. The eight cases were disposed of within two and…

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Police Request For Free Beds At Dobbo Hospital

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 3

A letter from the Dubbo police concerning the Police and Prisons Ball, which was first held in 1944 to raise funds for the Dubbo Base Hospital, and asking that in view of the amount of money raised that two…

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Six Months Gaol Escapee Sentenced at Gular

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

Commenting that he regarded the escape very seri-Gulargambone Police Station, ously, especially from the…

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Breaking and Entering Man Charged at Coonabarabran Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 2

At the Coonabarabran police court last Friday, Cecil Herbert Carr, laborer, aged 25 years, was remanded on a charge of…

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One Blow Broke Man's Jaw and Crushed Cheekbone Civil Court Action Over Fight

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

Out Peak Hill way, there are two little farms nestling together. On a hot summer's day the wheat stalks wave and the turkeys meander about in search of tit bits to eat, but the farmers, Joseph Sharpe and William Henry Baker, have never…

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Alleged Cattle Thief Charged at Wellington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1947 · page 5

The identity of the well-known Stuart Town resident, who was charged last week with cattle stealing and an offence under the…

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Sydney Detective Visits Dubbo on Lavers Murder

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1947 · page 5

Detective-Sergeant D. Caiman, who received nation-wide publicity recently for his work in the Lavers murder case, which he had been…

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Accused Remanded on Bail. Cattle Stealing Charge

The Wellington Times · Monday 28 April 1947 · page 1

Arthur Harold Lawson (57), a grazier of Stuart Town, was remanded on three charges of stealing cattle and one charge…

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Man Charged with Stealing Commonwealth Property

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1947 · page 1

Police, under the direction of Detective-Sergeant J. A. Burke of Dubbo, visited a well-known Narromine Hotel at three o'clock Sunday morning and after conversing with several men, one was taken to the…

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Preferred Goal To Paying Court Fines

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1947 · page 1

The defendant in an unlawful assault action at the Dubbo Court yesterday, told the Magistrate Mr. G. C Hook that he preferred gaol to paying the fine and extras amounting to £20/-/6, after he had been convicted of the offence…

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