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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Jail For Car-Theft Racketeers SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 3

The Court of Criminal Appeal today substituted a jail sentence of two-years hard labor on three men whom a…

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Police Chief And Family Housed In Caravan

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 1

The Government has not been able to provide housing in Dubbo for a high ranking police…

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No Action by Police Against Dalray's Owner Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 5

Police have decided to take no action against the owner of Dalray, Mr. C. Neville, for thumbing his nose at…

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Magistrate Joins Police Superintendent in Ranks of Homeless Army Dubbo's Housing Shortage Causes Widespread Concern

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 1

Dubbo's Stipendiary Magistrate may soon join Dubbo's army of the homeless. He may not even have, like Superintendent Schumaker, a caravan to fall back upon…

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Gulargambone News Police Court

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 5

The following cases were dealt with at a sitting of the Gulargambone Court on Monday:…

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Man Committed for Trial Alleged Theft

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 12

At the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions last week, Brian James Petersen, 20, of Riverstone…

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Graziers Settle Out Of Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 2

A claim by Robert Claude Pearce, grazier, of "Doondi," Coonamble, against Moxham Partners, graziers, of Nyngan,…

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Deterring Car Theft

The Western Herald · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 11

Motorists hope the State Government will at last get to grips with the car thief problem, said N.R.M.A. General…

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Police Search for Car Driver

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 1

Wellington Police are searching for a man who crashed a sedan oar on Saturday night…

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Motorists and the Police

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

Law-abiding motorists demand State Government action to protect them, and the rest of the community, from the…

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Turpin In Divorce Court LONDON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 1

British boxer, Randolph Turpin, contender for the vacant world middleweight title fought back yesterday—in…

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Just Couldn't Help Stealing Cars New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

A boy of 16, described as the "champion" car thief of the United States, was sent to the reformatory after he…

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Man Sentenced to Three Months Stole Clothing From Vehicle Coonamble Court

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

When an aboriginal family living in Herrmann Street, Coonamble, found a bundle of…

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Ex-police Sergeant Honoured Medal for Mr. Jorgensen

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 3

In a recent issue of "The Albury Border Mail" appeared a photograph of Mr. A. A…

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Coroner’s Court Death of Mrs. M. E. Luckie

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

Mr. D. W. Murphy, Coonabarabran Coroner, held an inquests at Mendooran, on Tuesday, into the death of Mrs…

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Police Protection in Country Areas

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 3

Large areas of the State are without police protection, said Director F. Firth at yesterday's meeting of Dubbo P.P. Board…

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Speedster Fined at Dubbo Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 5

Leo Moss. "Warrawong" Teeraweenah, was lined £5, costs 12/- by Mr. F. Spence SM at Tuinto Court this morning on a…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Motorists and the Police

The Western Herald · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 5

Law-abiding motorists demand State Government action to protect them, and the rest of the community, from the…

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Ghoulish Secrets of London's "Murder House" London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 1

Detectives today will use crowbars and shovels to wrest any remaining ghoulish secrets still held by West London's murder house—a squalid West End flat where bodies of at least six women have been…

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Cleric Sentenced for Murder New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 1

Rev. George Hetenyi, 43, was sentenced to from 40 years to life jail for murdering his wife. • It is the - third time he has…

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