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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Police Supt. On Betting Records SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 1

Pages had been cut out of wh[?] is betting record book only [?]ecause the information had to[?]een transferred to a ledger…

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Police Action Is Sought on Jackson Badges Lithgow

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 2

Lithgow police were asked by the council to restrict the activities or "two strangers" who were reported to be…

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'Asked Me for Poison," Inquest Witness Says at Cowra Court Story Of Talk With Woman Charged With Murder COWRA

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 1

A woman charged with the murder of her daughter's fiance had asked for poison to give to her future son-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Sinclair said in the Coroner's Court this…

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W'ton Plan For Transport Demonstration Fails Effort Sabotaged by Sydney Truckers and by Defection of Dubbo Delegates Country Deputation Given No Hope by Transport Chiefs Police Threaten to Arrest Drivers and Govt. Threatens to Declare Local Member's Seat Vacant

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

THE plan to organise on a State-wide basis a demonstration in Sydney by country road transport operators to coincide with the opening of the State Parliament to-morrow was sabotaged by the executive of the Long Distance Road Transport Association referring the proposal to the Police and by tbe defection of the Dubbo delegates who, without prior reference to the Wellington and Orange members of the delegation to Sydney…

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Employers Wage and Hours Claim in Court Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 2

One of the most disturbing features of the basic wage adjustments was their unpredictability, Mr. A. P. Aird told…

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Dubbo Divorce Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 2

In the Divorce Court at Dubbo yesterday Judge McKillop found the issues proved in three undefended applications for divorce on the grounds of desertion. Brook v. Brook…

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Police Warning on Park Cycling

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 6

Dubbo police have advised Dubbo Council that persons found riding bicycles through Burden Park had been…

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Court Welcomes: Judge—mayor

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 3

The Mayor of Dubbo (Ald. [?] and was welcomed by Judge D. McKillop prior to the opening of the Dubbo Quarter…

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Stop-Work Order By Court MELBOURNE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 3

A stop-work order was issued by the Arbitration Court in Melbourne yesterday. It was to workmen shifting…

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Hotel Manager Freed on Assault Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 3

After a retirement of one and a quarter hours, a Quarter Sessions jury this afternoon found John Vincent Morgan, manager of the Royal Hotel, Dubbo, not guilty of an assault charge…

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Unlucky at Cards Unlucky in Court'

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 1

A man who had a lot of bad luck in a card game continued his losing sequence at the Wellington Court of Petty…

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Gilgandra Man Acquitted on Stealing Charge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

After a retirement of less than half-an-hour a jury at Dubbo Quarter Sessions yesterday brought in a verdict of not…

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Got Over £5000 in Bribes for Commission Homes Man Tells Court Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 1

Housing Commission officers had required £200 key money in consideration for obtaining commission homes for applicants, a man. on trial on a charge of false pretences said in the Quarter Sessions today…

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Man Sentenced to Year's Jail

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 3

Lawrence Everson (28), a married man with three children was sentenced to 12 months jail by Judge McKillop at the Dubbo…

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Shire Valuation Court Hearing in September

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 7

Due to the time taken by a defended case at the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions last week, Mr. N.C. Hawse,…

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Traffic Police Still Want To Move Our War Monument

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 1

The NSW Traffic S[?] still considers that the only way to deal with traffic problems and ever[?] accidents in Narromine's Railway [?] is to move the war…

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Wellington Men Acquitted at Dubbo Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 4

Two Wellington men were acquitted at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions on Wednesday last on an alleged charge, of…

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Man on Charge of Stealing Railway Beer

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 2

Walter Edward Peake, Naman-street, Dubbo, pleaded not guilty before Mr. K. Palmer, SM, at Dubbo Court on Friday…

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Murder "Almost Perfect" New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 1

A man has been charged in Bullimore with the "almost perfect" murder of his 33-year-old wife…

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Comic Court's Foal Steps Out

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 6

Comic Court's first foal, a filly, trying out her legs for speed at the Warlaby Stud, Oaklands Junction, where. she was born…

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