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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Court House Hotel Changes Hands

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

An application for the transfer of the license of the Court House Hotel was granted by Mr. R. Palmer, S.M., at Dubbo…

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Man Arrested on Theft Charge

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 1

A labourer who was arrested in Wellington on Thursday evening last appeared before Nyngan Court to-day on a…

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Police Tap Dance Hall Beer Cache SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1951 · page 1

Fifteen police took three hours to load into trucks 350 dozen bottles of beer found beneath a suburban dance…

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Another Big Beer Haul by Police Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1951 · page 1

Detectives who seized more than 17,000 bottles of deer from a Lakemba house yesterday did not finish…

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Wife Shoots Rival In Court New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1951 · page 1

A woman pulled out a pistol in the county Court House at Rome, Georgia, yesterday and killed a woman she had…

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Smoking—contempt of Court Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 1

A woman was fined £1 by Mr Stonham S.M. in Gosford Court yesterday for contempt of Court — she was smoking a cigarette…

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Never Drove Car Before, Court Told

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 2

James Kenneth Moore, the driver of a car which turned over on the Obley Road on September 10 and killed Leslie…

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Dubbo Girl (21) Charged with Theft of £365

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 2

Kathleen Mary Emily Louise Heins, 21, of Brisbane Street, Dubbo, appeared before Mr. P. Palmer, S.M., Dubbo Court on…

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Appeal to World's Top Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 3

Trunk Weaver, Australian husband of a Japanese woman, will ask the International Court of Justice…

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Wheat Receiving District Farmer Before Court Case Adjourned for Further Month

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 1

An adjournment was granted the case in which J. J. Christian, a Gilgandra farmer, is charged with receiving wheat, well knowing it to have been stolen, when…

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Inquiry Into Stabbing Case Death of Coonamble Worker Results in Murder Charge One Witness Says He Spent £200 on Drink in Three Weeks Bail of £1000 Soon Forthcoming

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 8

At the Gilgandra Court House on Friday, the Dubbo Coroner (Mr. G. Christie) held an inquest into the death of James Biggar, a Coonamble rural worker,…

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Three Months Gaol for Theft

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 1

James Percival Davies, a labourer, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to three months hard labour by Stipendiary…

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Speedster Fined at Dubbo Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 3

Leman Englander, of Balfour Road, Rose Bay, was fined £7/10/- with 10/- court costs by Mr. R. Palmer, S.M., at Dubbo…

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Aly Khan In Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 3

Prince Aly Khan (right) talking with lawyers in a Paris court recently, when he appeared in an action brought against him for selling an asthmatic horse for 4500 dollars. The man who bought the horse is Hoycep Mardath, a Calcutta hotel proprietor…

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Robbery Warning by Wagga Police Wagga, Thursday:-

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 2

Police have asked store and hotelkeepers to leave lights burning near their, safes to prevent robberies…

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Superintendent of Police Has Big Area

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 2

Superintendent H. Boswell, who previously spent all of his service with the forte in Sydney, is now police chief over…

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Bourke Police Court Heavy Fines for Over Charging on Cigarettes, Matches and Beer Also Fines for Not Exhibiting Price Lists

The Western Herald · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 4

Some few months ago two officers from the District Price Commisioner's Office Dubbo, visited the town and the sequel…

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Father of Five Charged with Murder London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 1

A man who allegedly underwent an operation for sterilisation because his wife insisted on it has now been charged…

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Government Acquisions "Burglary"

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 3

Acquisition by the State Government of properties on 1912 valuations was nothing more than burglary, Mr. Q…

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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 31 October 1951 · page 4

But first I'll tell you of the enquiries we've made in London during the week—incidentally I was put in charge of them, with…

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