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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Award To Former Dubbo Police Supt. SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 3

A former Dubbo Police Superintendent was among the five superintendents of the N.S.W. Police Force awarded the King's…

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Indians Win Big Court Clair Washington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 1

The U.S. Court of Claims yesterday awarded four India tribes 16,515,001 dollars [?] cents for land the Government…

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Doctor on Murder Charge After Mercy Death New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

Doctor Hermann Sander, who has been charged with murder following a "mercy death" of a woman cancer patient yesterday…

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Man on Double Murder Charge Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

Kevin John Irwin, 23, a moulder, of Garong Road, Lakemba, appeared at Campsie Court today on charges of murdering Mrs. Dorothy Dart, 49, and her 20-years-old daughter, Dorothy Jean Dart, at…

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Court Sequel to Fight at Hotel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

Three men—John Owen Madden. (22), of 100 Erskine Street. Dubbo; Charles Robert Herridge (32), 92 Brisbane Street, and…

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Attempted Murder Charge Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 1

A sixty-year-old man was charged at North Sydney police station last night with attempted murder following a…

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Police Have Quiet Holiday Period

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 7

For the Wellington Police, the Christmas and New Year holidays were one of the quietest on record. The…

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Cleric Urges Gaol For Adulterers BRISBANE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 1

Men and women who committed adultery should be gaoled Just like thieves, said Archbishop Dubig, who claimed that…

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Television Aids Police Search New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Television is being used by Venters (New York) police in their searen for Josephine Leech, 12, who has, been missing…

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Polish Migrant Charged with Murder; Sydney, Friday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1

A young Polish immigrant charged with murder denied in the Liverpool Court today that he had stabbed Private Neil…

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Shearer to Face Attempted Murder Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

A woman's piercing screams, followed by a revolver shot on a vacant allotment on the corner of Tamworth and Fitzroy Streets on the night of December 14 had a sequel in…

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Girl Alleges Assault. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 1

A thirteen-year-old girl told police last night that a soldier tried to indecently assault her on the Goulburn-Sydney train…

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Cleric Gaoled for Murder of Wife New York, Tuesday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

A Hungarian-born Episcopalian clergyman, Rev. George P. Helenyi, 40, was yesterday sentenced to serve 50 years in prison…

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Extra Police Road Patrols Urged

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

"No real impact will be made upon the road accident problem until the numbers of the police patrol force are considerably…

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Britisher Before German Court Hambusg

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

Sephen McGillan, [?] old Scot, who came to Germany to find his wife and found himself in jail for theft was…

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Bourke Stealing Case

The Western Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

Herbert Donald Greenway, labourer, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment on each charge of…

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Fine for Theft of Harness From Dairyman

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

A 22-years-old laborer, Vincent Richard Burge, of Dalton Street, Dubbo was fined £3 in default of six days at…

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Assault Cases Adjourned

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 7

The Wellington Court House and environs were crowded on Thursday last by aborigines from the Wellington Mission…

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Remand for Alleged Assault

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 2

As a result of a fracas near the Hotel Wellington on January 7 last, a Wellington man was remanded at the…

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Police Show How Easy A Theft Would Be BOSTON, Friday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 1

Robbers took 1,500,000 dollars in cash and cheques from Binks Incorporated a week ago but a man expert with a nail file and…

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