Coronial Inquiry Polish Migrant Committed for Trial for Murder
Before the Coroner's Court at Bourke on Monday last, Mr. Coroner H. E. Rankin (of Cobar)…
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Courts & crime, 1953
293 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 15
Judge Did Not Believe Police SYDNEY
Police evidence was not believed by Judge Nield in the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court where he quashed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Husband and Wife in Court Battle for Child Sydney
Wife of Bathurst grazier, Mrs. Jill Mary Hackney, denied in the Equity Court that she was "hard and unrelenting" in not asking to see her baby after its birth on December 22, 1951…
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A punch allegedly delivered out of the boxing ring is the basis of a 3000 dollar action for damages against former world…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Christie Booed As He Left London Court LONDON
John Reginald Halliday Christie, 55-years-old London clerk charged with the murder of four women, walked the streets carrying a newspaper clipping about a man hanged for murder, a London court was…
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Norman John Holm, 18, of no fixed place of abode, was sentenced to 12 months jail by Judge McKillop at Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Gaoled for Stealing a 4d NEWSPAPER
A [?] of two months' hard [?] was imposed against a reveling stationmaster who was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jury Fails to Agree on Murder Charges
A Wellington man was remanded for re-trial on a charge of murder when the jury hearing his trial at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions failed to agree and was dismissed. The man, Stanley Raymond…
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Rita Miller, of Chelmsford Street, Dubbo pleaded not guilty before Mr. F. Spence, SM, at the last Dubbo Court to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stolen Wallet Women Sent To Gaol
Pleading guilty to stealing a man's wallet at Narromine last January, Florence Hampton was sentenced to nine months'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MOTORS & MOTORISTS Dubbo Police Lecturer Says Children Keen On Road Safety Lessons
Children are much more conscious of the importance of road safety than adults. This is the opinion of Constble R. Dobson, one of whose duties is to lecture Dubbo schoolchildren once every three months on taking care on the roads and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shearer Blamed Cocaine for Lapses with Valueless Cheques Year s Gaol on Four Charges Remanded on Three Others
In the Wellington Court of Petty Sessions yesterday a smartly dressed, persuasive young man was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour on each of four charges of false pretences. He is Gerald Charles Moon (29), shearer, of 103 Marsden Street, Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stubbed Her Cigarette On Kisser's Face Young Typist Tells Court SYDNEY
When a man kissed her she had stubbed her cigarette out on his face, a young typist said in Central Court. The man, she said, slapped her face, exclaiming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Investigation Of Reports On Sheep Stealing
Following [?] ep had disappeared [?] large numbers throughout the Peak Hill district the Farmer and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jury Acquits Trangie Man On Cattle Stealing Charge
A man and his wife embraced p[?]onately in front of the dock in Dubbo Court last Wednesday night when the man, William Walter Th[?] carpenter, drover of Trangie was [?] on a charge of cattle stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chlorophyll Problem For Police SYDNEY
Chlorophyll is providing a problem for the police because when taken by people under the influence of liquor, police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Police Needed Says N.R.M.A.
Law-abiding motorists demand State Government action to protect them, and the rest of the community, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bourke Police Court
Before the local Justices on Tuesday last a man named Ray Holmes, aged 36, labourer, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Told To Report On Stadium SYDNEY
The Chief Secretary (Mr. Kelly) has ordered a report from the police on the contest at the Sydney Stadium last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Often Looked in Arthur's Safe" Doyle Tells Court Sydney
A queue of more than 40 people were waiting more than half an hour outside the court today to see bankrupt investor Reginald Aubrey Doyle, who was brought from Long Bay for the Royal…
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