Annual Police & Firemen's Ball 200 Couples Present. Splendid Social Success
Wet weather of the past few weeks caused much concern to the organisers of the 1948 Police & Firemen's Ban, as…
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Courts & crime, 1948
316 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 9 of 16
Court Report
The Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions sat yesterday, with Mr. R. A. Kersley, S.M., presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Son Charged with Assaulting Mother's Doctor Melbourne
Dr. Alfred L. McInness of Moonee Ponds, was allegedly assaulted by a man at Flemington last night while attending the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth Charged with Theft of Typewriter
Appearing at the Dubbo Police Court this morning an 18-year-old labourer was charged with breaking and entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Remanded on Handbag Theft
A sequel to the loss of a handbag containing more than £140 in cash together with ration books and personal papers, by a Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Obituary Mr. John Court
With the death of Mr. John Court, of "Hillside," Gollan, at a Wellington Private Hospital on June 20 last, Wellington district…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police and Council Discuss Traffic Matters
The Mayor and Town C[?] Johnson of the Dubbo Police in [?] week on traffic matters with the [?] as a result the Inspector under[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court Two Hotel Licenses Transferred
The licenses of the Club House Hotel, Wellington, and the Goolma Hotel, were transferred at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bourke Police Court
Before Mr. R. H. Kersley, Police Magistrate, on Tuesday last the usual monthly court was held in the Bourke Court House…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Father Charged with Murder of His Six Children Glen Innes, Friday
Police today charged a 65-years-old labourer with the murder of his six children in a ramshackle shanty four miles from Glen Innes. The six children were found huddled together…
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Cases hoard before Mr. R. A. Kersley. S.M., at the sitting of the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ownership of Heifer Disputed in Court Young Man Charged With Stealing
Pleading not guilty a young man was arranged before His Honor Judge Shortland at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions yesterday charged with allegedly stealing on February 27, 1948, one heifer the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bigamist Sentenced To Six Months
Appearing before His Honor, Judge Shortland, yesterday, Clifford Frederick Chandler Dodd pleaded guilty to bigamously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appeals Court At Dubbo Today
Appeals heard before His Honor, Judge Shortland, at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions today, included:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Criminal Assault Alleged Against Methodist Minister Darwin
A deal mute half[?]aste girl gave evidence at the Darwin court yesterday that a 45-year business manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court Grants Club License To Bowlers Servicemen’s Application Fails
At a special sitting of the Licensing court held at Coonabarabran on Monday and Tuesday morning, when the Coonabarabran Bowling Club and the Ex-Servicemen’s Club each applied for a liquor license, the Bench regretted that…
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Cases heard before Mr. R. A. Kersley, S.M., at the sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday included:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Impersonation Charge
Stanley T. Flanngan, 23, who was charged at Grange Court with having impersonated a police constable was stated by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narromine Left Without Police Protection Council Seeks Another Permanent Officer
At last night's meeting of the Narromine municipal council it was said that on at least one occasion Narromine was left without any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acquitted on Charge of £140 Theft From Taxi
After a lengthy hearing before Mr. R.A. Kersley, S.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday a case in which a young man was charged with the theft of £148 contained in a handbag believed to have…
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