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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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U.S.A. Police Ready for Trouble At Communists' Trial New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

Four hundred police stood by to preserve order when the trial of 12 American Communist Party leaders began yesterday. They are being tried on charges of working for the forcible overthrow of…

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Wheat Stealing Charges Two Men Before Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

Wilfred Arthur Machim, 28, laborer, and John Clarence Bayley, 31 years, were charged at me Coonabarabran Court on Monday afternoon with stealing 100 bags of wheat, valued at £150,…

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Monday’s Police Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 12

At the monthly sitting of the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions on Monday John Henry Wottan and John Goulding were…

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Heavy Penalty for Assaulting Police Two Men at Binnaway Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

TWO DEFENDANTS WERE FINED AND ORDERED TO ENTER INTO A BOND AT THE BINNAWAY COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS ON TUESDAY, WHEN THEY WERE CONVICTED FOR ASSAULTING A POLICE CONSTABLE…

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Police Fire on Students' Procession Calcutta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

Eight persons were killed and forty injured when "police opened fire on students yesterday. The police opened fire on the…

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Bosh Fire Prevention Police Essay Competition Results

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 12

The winning essays of the [?] Essay Competition, 1943, on Bush Fire Prevention, have been announced…

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Police Statistics Record Number of Arrests in 1948

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

Principally due to the increase in the number of offences against good behaviour, Wellington police last year…

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Verdict for £2 58 In Small Debts Court

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 5

In the Coonabarabran Small Debts Court on Monday Edward Coan retired farmer, of Gunnedah Road Coonabarabran, was…

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Court Shorts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 4

The list of cases heard before Mr. A. R. Raschke, S.M., at the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions yesterday included:…

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No Alteration Police Protection at Geurie

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 6

Present arrangements by which the police office at Geurie was used for relieving work in the Dubbo…

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Wheat Stealing at Coonabarabran

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

Appearing before Mr. Polcock S.M., at the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions last week, Wilfred Arthur. Machin…

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Daring Forbes Wool Theft

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1

Orange detectives are investigating a daring theft of [?] bales of wood worth 720 them a [?] on E[?]long Station, Forbes…

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Heavy Penalty for Assaulting Police

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

Appearing before the Binnaway Court of Petty Sessions last week, two men were fined heavily on a charge of [?]saulting a…

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Alleged Stealing, Receiving

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 3

At the Coonabarabran Court Wilfred Arthur Machin (28),laborer, and John Clarence Bayley (31), laborer, were remanded to…

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Licensing Court

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 2

In the Wellington Licensing Court on Tuesday morning last, an application by Peter Kevin Crittenden for transfer of the…

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Sequel to Road Accident. Lengthy Small Debts Court Hearing. Magistrate Awards Damages to Cover Repairs to Car, Bicycle

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 8

LENGTHY cross-examination of a Stuart Town labourer and his son in regard to alleged conversations at the scene of an accident on the Wellington-Bournewood road near Yeoval on May 31, 1948, highlighted the hearing…

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Bourke Police Court

The Western Herald · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 5

The usual monthly Court was held in the Court House, Bourke, on Tuesday morning last, before Mr. R. Kersley,…

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Far West Children's Health Scheme Work Told in Irish Police Magazine

The Western Herald · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 6

Latest overseas journal to show interest in the Australian Outback, and the work of the Far West Scheme in its loneliest…

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Police Court Vagrants in Trouble

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

A vagrant who was optimistic enough to beg £1 from two men talking in Nanima Crescent on Tuesday last did not…

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Heavy Penalty for Assaulting Police

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 4

Appearing before the Binnaway Court last week, two men were fined heavily on a charge of assaulting a police constable. They…

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