Ghoulish Act Gets Man 18 Months Gaol
A man who ransacked a Wellington funeral parlor and prised open a coffin to search the body for valuables…
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Courts & crime, 1949
338 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 10 of 17
Arbitration Court Chief
Judge W. R. Kelly has been appointed Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court. When he became president of South…
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A Dubbo tractor mechanic who assaulted his mother-in law was yesterday ordered to enter into a recognisance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coffin Disturber Sentenced to 18 Months' Gaol
AT the Dubbo Quarter Sessions on Monday last, a Herne Bay labourer, Hilton James Butcher, (19) was sentenced to 18 months' gaol for breaking and entering Murray Bros. funeral parlours, Wellington, on June 2 last…
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Leonard Eyre Robinson, a 28-year-old photographer, of Talbragar Street, Dubbo, was sentenced to 15 months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wharfies March on Court After Union Head Gaoled Marx House Raided SYDNEY, Friday
Leaving every ship in port idle over 500 wharflabourers marched on the Federal Arbitration Court in Phillip Street this afternoon after the Acting National Secretary of…
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In the Arbitration Court this morning Mr. Justice Foster made the Hollowing orders:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Coal Strike Moves All N.S.W. Police Leave Cancelled and Movement of Coal Trucks Begun. Brisbane Communists Remove Files and Furniture from Their Office. SYDNEY
THE Railways Department yesterday commenced to move coal which had been held up in trucks near the coalfields because of the strike. Railway engines moved about 700 tons of coal in trucks and miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truck Driver Sought by Police for Obstructing Ambulance
Police are seeking the driver of a truck that failed to give the right of way to an ambulance this week at Narromine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aborigine Gaoled For Shop Theft
A 20-year-old aborigine, who stole £5/10/- from the till of an Erskine Street shop, was sentenced to 12 months gaol at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Leaders Appear Before Court Sydney
Twenty-three communist Party leaders appeared in the Arbitration Court today when the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Remand On Theft Charge
Charged with stealing a watch and chain valued at £5, Noel Colin Battye, 20, Railway Hotel, Dubbo, appeared before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jurisdiction of Court Upheld Sydney
In the High Court this morning Mr. Justice McTiernan upheld the jurisdiction of Mr. Justice Foster in…
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A fight between two cousins in Victoria Park last Saturday afternoon resulted in them appearing before Mr. Kersley,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coonamble Theft
Charged with stealing a watch and chain valued at £5, Noel Colin Battye, 20, Railway Hotel, Dubbo,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fine for Public s Assault on Young Wife
A young Wellington man who struck his wife across the face at the recent Wellington-Dubbo football match at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Service Station Burglary. Thieves Run Away When Disturbed
Burglars who broke into the Oxley Service Station in Lee Street in the early hours of yesterday morning were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Station Fire
A ch[?]mncy fire which broke out at the Dubbo Police Station at 6 o'clock en Thursday night was quickly extinguished by members…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycle Promised for Yeoval Police
Yeoval police station has been listed for supply with a motor cycle unit. The Premier said that when he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fiendish Assault on Nun London
A man believed o be a maniac climbed a 10ft wall to enter the window of a Dublin convent yesterday and kicked and stabbed a NOT A levitation net but a spectacular picture of a member of the Yugoslav soccer team visiting Australia (Vladimir Beara),…
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