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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Fire Charges Dismissed Baradine Court

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 11

Before Mr. A. V. Johnson S.M. at the Baradine Court of Petty Sessions last week two charges alleging illegal fire lighting, filed…

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Fiendish Murder of Whole Family of Five New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 1

Edwin Reynolds, 27, a tall strongly built laborer is alleged by police to have calmly confessed yesterday to the murder…

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Bourke Police Court

The Western Herald · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 4

The usual monthly Court was held at the Court House, Bourke, on Monday evening last before Mr. R. Palmer, Police Magistrate…

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Stealing Station Wool

The Western Herald · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 4

At the Mudgee Quarter Sessions before His Honor Judge Shortland Mervyn John Burns (23) and James Warwick Smiley (29)…

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Those Were the Days Old "News" Of Report Of Trangie Court Case

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 5

In a copy of the "News" of 1929 we came across the report of a police court case at Trangie. A more vigorous style of…

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Three Japs Found Guilty by War Crimes Court Los Negros

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1950 · page 1

The War Crimes Court today acquitted one Japanese of murdering Australian and Allied prisoners of war at Ambon in…

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Man Charged on Smash-grab Theft

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 September 1950 · page 1

A Wellington man was charged at the Police Court on Friday last with breaking, entering and stealing from…

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New Police Officer in Dubbo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 3

Detective Constable Maclean, formerly of the Sydney C.I.B., arrived in Dubbo at the week-end to take up duties with…

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Young Man on Payroll Theft Charge. Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 1

A twenty-one-year-old truck driver alleged to have stolen £1,850 payroll from an armoured. car in Sydney last month was…

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3 Months in Gaol Sentence for Begging Alms

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 3

Constable J. Perrin of the Coonabarabran Police Force had a night off last Friday night and this proved to be a stroke of bad…

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Six Months' Gaol for Illegal Use of Truck

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 1

After taking a vehicle which had been left unattended in a street in Orange, a Wellington labourer, who did not have…

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Court Sequel to Cafe Brawl

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1950 · page 2

A brawl between two men in the Trocodero Cafe at 11.40 p.m. on September 1 resulted in their being fined £5 each at…

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Flood Incident Has Court Sequel Man Hit Constable & Jumped In River

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1950 · page 2

A man had assaulted a constable on the Dubbo Railway Bridge and then jumped into the flooded Macquarie River on August 2, the Dubbo court of petty Sessions was told yesterday…

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Wellington Labourer Committed for Trial Magistrate's Bench Littered With Loot from Smash-Grab Thefts

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 2

WELLINGTON labourer, Dudley John Veech (26), was committed for trial at Dubbo Quarter Sessions on Nov. 6th after police prosecuted him in the Wellington Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last on two charges of…

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Nyngan Grazier Charged with A[?] Murder

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 1

Before Mr. W. P. McCall, CPS at Nyngan Court on Wednesday last a Nyngan grazier Edward Ronald Backhouse 29) at Tarawera…

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Man Fined £5 For Tombstone Theft GUNDAGAI

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 3

A monumental mason was fined at Gundagai Court for stealing a tombstone from the grave of a child in the Coolac…

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Wild Infantry Assault by Reds in Korea Tokio, Tuesdya

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 1

American and North Korean infantry tangled inconclusively in a wild battle north of Taegu today as the Reds launched a…

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Man Remanded on Theft Charge Maxwell Vernon Gifford (42)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 1

was arrested in Dubbo yesterday by Detective C. W. Oakman and Constable C. Barwick and charged with stealing two diamond…

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£50 Theft From Golf Club. Premises Burgled Last Night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 September 1950 · page 1

Thieves broke into the Dubbo Golf Club House last night and stole money and goods valued at £5d…

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Court Lighting C’bran Tennis Club

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 14 September 1950 · page 9

At the last meeting of the Coonabarabran Tennis Club a lengthy discussion took place on the [?] od of lighting the courts…

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