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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Jealousy Behind Murder CASINO

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 1

Jealousy is believed to have been the motive behind the murder on Sunday of Donald Warner,…

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Gulargambone News Police Court Cases

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 2

The following cases were dealt with at the Gulargambone Police Court on Monday: Police V Frader: Case…

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Court Busy Scene

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

Gilgandra Police Court was crowded on Monday morning for the usual monthly sitting, every available seat being…

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Compensation Court at Coonabarabran

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 2

On Thursday of next week the Workers’ Compensation Commission of N.S.W. will [?] a sitting at the court house…

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Wheat Stealing Charge Two Gilgandra Men Involved Case Adjourned to Special Sitting

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

A case of considerable interest to Gilgandra district was commenced at Gilgandra Police Court on Tuesday, but owing to a short sitting it was only part heard and…

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Court Congestion Special Day Asked for

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 4

The inconvenience caused through cases being adjourned was mentioned at Gilgandra Police Court on Monday…

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Migrant Committed For Trial For Assault And Robbery Witness Tells Magistrate of Threat to Kill Him If He Went to the Police

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 1

TWO interpreters were required at the hearing in the Wellington Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last, when Czechoslovakian migrant, Josef Nedved, Mumbil, was committeed for trial on a charge of assaulting and robbing another New Australian, Gertcho Lungoff, a railway employee, at Mumbil, on June 22 last…

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Traffic Cases at Dubbo Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 2

A number of traffic cases were dealt with at the Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions on Friday. On a charge of failing to…

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Sleuth Despite Himself Continuing "The Liberal's" fascinating new serial, a murder mystery story featuring an unforgettable fiction character, Theodore Terhune who wants only to sell books but who is forced into the role of a super sleuth by an amazing chain of circumstances

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 4

Having obtained the information she wanted, she seemed no longer interested. "My husband's in business, too. At…

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Bourke Police Court

The Western Herald · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

Before the Stipendiary Magistrate, on Tuesday last, Robert Alwyne Dean, aged 21 years, was charged with…

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Fashion Show in Gaol for Prisoners London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

A fashion show for women prisoners was staged at Holloway Gaol for the first time last night…

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'Murdered' Man Returns to Confuse Police New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

A Denver man who disappeared from the service-station where he was employed in 1949 denied that he was…

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Court Rejects Application for Ejectment

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 1

An ejectment application by Neil Graham Campbell, 62 Wingewarra Street, against John Claude Seymour, 20…

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Police Believe Woman Took Poison Guirindi

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 4

C.L.B. detectives believe that the death on Monday of Mrs. Evelyn Maude Wilson, 45, wife of a well-known and…

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Traffic Cases Before Court at Dubbo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 2

A number of charges for breaches of the Traffic Act were dealt with by Mr. R. Palmer; S.M., at the Dubbo Court of…

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Incident in Train Has a Court Sequel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 2

A skirmish in the Bourke Mail while it was standing at the Dubbo Railway Station on July 24 hail a sequel in the…

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Woman on Knee of Driver, Police Allege Leeton

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 1 August 1951 · page 3

A woman was sitting on the knee of the driver of a motor lorry which crashed head on into a car, it was alleged in…

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Stealing From Dwelling Everson Sentenced on Second Charge

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 4

A charge of Stealing clothing valued at £16/14/-, the personal property of David Hearne, a…

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Wheat Case Everson Gets Six Months for Stealing

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 1

The case in which Lawrence Henry Everson was charged with stealing 40 bags of wheat valued at £54, the property of the Australian Wheat Board, was…

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Comic Court, Retires

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 6

Comic Court, Australia's champion racehorse, has finished racing and will stand at Warlaby Stud…

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