Inquiry on Red Police Methods Sought Lake Success (N.y.)
A bitter attack on the methods used by totalitarian countries to extract "confessions" from political prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1949
338 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 14 of 17
Big Czech Purge Under Way Thousands In Secret-Police Dragnet LONDON
Thousands of Czechs have been arrested in a great purge launched this week by secret police, say reports reaching neighboring countries from Prague…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appeal to Fair Rents Court. Five Tenants Seek Rent Reduction for Shared Accommodation. Magistrate Reserves Judgment After Inspection
STIPENDIARY Magistrate, Mr. R. Kersley, made an inspection of "Logiealmond'' guest house in company with two Wellington solicitors on Thursday morning last. Mr. Kersley, who heard a claim by five tenants of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coroner's Court Finding of Accidental Death
At the Wellington Coroner's Court this morning, the Dis-trict Coroner, Mr. J. P. Dowd, returned a finding of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parents of Young Mother Murdered: Husband Charged London
A young wife recovering in a London nursing home after the birth of her first child was to a last night that her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner's Court Verdict of Death From Natural Causes
A verdict of death from natural causes was returned in the Wellington Coroner's Court on Monday by the District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girls Swooped on Shops in Stealing Raid London
Reform school girls who went on holidays to a town in Devon swooped on shops and "held the town to ransom" a magistrate's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Plot Is Alleged in Shearer's Death Coonamble, Wednesday
Detectives have uncovered vital evidence which they believe clearly supports their theory that a 37-years-old Coonamble shearer, Claude William Woods, who died of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Sergeant Attacks Betting And Liquor Laws COWRA
At a public farewell given to him by the residents of Cowra, Police Sergeant Loomes severely criticised the liquor and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Women at Court Alleged Assault Charge "Not Allowed To Throw Water," Says S.M.
In a case dealt with at the Gilgandra Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Kersley, S.M., it was alleged that Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Probe Continues at Coonamble Coonamble, Thursday
Detectives are still investigating the death of Claude William Woods, who died on September 30 from strychnine poisoning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Petrol Reserve Used in Vain Dash Sydney
Lithgow police early today used the last of their petrol stock in a 21 mile dash to help search for a 15-months-old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Illegal Radio Transmitters Found in Gaol Washington
The Federal Communications Commission has decided to prosecute the operators of an Illegal radio network with key…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three months' Gaol for Brutal Assault
TWO street photographers who brutally bashed and injured a young station hand on the Bourke Mail train between Dubbo and Wellington on October 6 last were each sentenced to three months hard labour by Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. R. Kersley in the Wellington Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buck Rogers, 25th Century, A.D. -Murder Case!
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Verdict Against in Industrial Court. Bricklayer's Claim Against Wellington Contractor for living-away Allowance Dismissed
A Wellington building contractor at the Wellington Industrial Court last Thursday successfully challenged a clause in the Carpenters, Bricklayers Construction (State) Award which states that if an employee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Judge Heeds Mother's Plea in Indecent Assault Case
A crying mother's plea to Judge Shortland at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions on Tuesday last saved a young…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Divorce Issues at District Court
In the Wellington District Court on Thursday last, His Honour, Judge Shortland, found the issues in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gaol Sentence Appeal Upheld
A man who had 15 years service with the Railway Department and was recently found guilty of stealing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Bound Over for Assault
David Ernest Lavender, who was fount guilty at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions last July on a charge of assaulting. Sarah Ann…
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