Unusual Court Case Must Have Permit to Travel Horses
A lorry passed through Cowra recently with three horses on the back. The driver, Eric Hooker, of Orange, was stopped by the police…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Man Remanded on Charge of Stealing Rings
Maxwell V. Gifford, (48), a mechanic, with no fixed place of abode was remanded at the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions…
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A Curra Creek man was this morning remanded to next Thursday's sitting of the Wellington Court of Petty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Recover Stolen Car
A Dodge Saloon car stolen from Talbragar Street. Dubbo last week was recovered by the Dunedoo police on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Puzzled Over Peak Hill Hanging
Police are puzzled at the death of 19-year-old farm worker Charles Henry Simpson, who was found hanged on a Peak…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ban on Exports to Soviet Hard to Police London
Only a complete blockade could stop all materials of military use from going behind the "Iron Curtain", the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wood Murder Trial
In a low quiet voice, Mrs. Ethel Maud Wood pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court at Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pretty Nurse Is Found Dead Echo Of U.S. "Mercy Murder" Trial New York
Twenty-five-year-old Helen Macfolek, the pretty nurse who testified for Doctor Herman Sander in the "Mercy Murder"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commonwealth Is Charged with Strangling States Sydney
By a progress of grim attrition the States were being slowly strangled to death without the people having a single word to say about it, the Attorney General (Mr. Martin) said in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transport for Police. Motor Cycle Outfit Urgently Needed at Yeoval
The Commissioner for Police some time ago authorised the provision of a motor cycle outfit for the Yeoval Police…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Fined £19 for Stealing Bottle of Beer
A man who stole a bottle of beer from a parked uility in Dubbo, was fined £10 by Mr. Palmer S.M. in the Dubbo Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Trial May End Today Crown Case Nearly Concluded
The Wood murder trial which commenced in the Supreme Court, Dubbo, on Wednesday, may concluded in Dubbo this morning, when the Crown case is expected to conclude…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parking on Footpaths Police Action Sought
Narromine police are to be asked by the Municipal Council to take action against the owners of vi[?] found parked on footpaths…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hectic Week of Crime in Western Towns by City Boys Dubbo Police Make Arrests After District-wide Hunt
Twenty charges have been laid against four Sydney teen-age boys, who have been arrested by police after a hectic week of crime in the Dubbo district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault Charge Remand
Michael Bernard Kirwan, 56, station hand of Bourke, who was acquitted by a jury at the Criminal Court Dubbo yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Months Hard Labour for Theft
A Curra Creek labourer was sentenced to one month's hard labour at the Wellington Court of Petty Sessions last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Months' Gaol Follows Conflicting Statements
Conflicting: statements by a 38-years-old labourer, John Chamberalin, when questioned by police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Stealing
Before the Police Magistrate (Mr. Palmer) on Tuesday last, R. L. Gardner was charged with stealing a watch the property of William…
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A Bourke station hand, Michael Bernard Kirwan, 56, was found not guilty in the Criminal Court at Dubbo last Tuesday morning on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →River Bank Resident Poses a Problem for Magistrate
Leslie: McKenzie, better known as "Stepper", who has lived on the Dubbo river bank for many years, posed a…
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