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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Traffic Dome Needed Says Sm in Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 4

A traffic dome on the Northern side of the intersection of Fitzroy and Cobra Streets would be a great help to the Court, Mr…

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College Course For Police Helps Overcome Traffic Snarls EVANSTON, Illonois, June 10

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 2

If you become involved in fewer traffic jams in your home town than formerly, it may be that Evanston has something to do with it. This city of 75,000 is becoming known as an…

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Rail Truck Theft Gwabegar Ex-Porter Sentenced

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 11

Drapery, wearing apparel and tinned meat valued at £146/17/7 stolen from a railway goods truck at Gwabegar were exhibits at the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions, last week, when Kevin Barry Smith…

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Possession of Premises Adjournment to July Court

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 7

An adjournment to the July sitting of the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions was granted last week by Mr. C. K…

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Magistrate Said Police "Not" People

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 3

In last Tuesday's edition of "The Liberal" it was stated that Mr. Stapleton SM told John Thomas Kay, licencee of…

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Police Blitz Against Reckless Driving

The Western Herald · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 5

The N.R.M.A. has congratulated the police on their "blitz" against reckless driving, but fears that if the strength,…

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Municipal Council Appeal Court

The Western Herald · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 6

The Town Clerk has received the following letter from Mr. I. Fuller, Cleric of Petty Sessions, Bourke: "It appears from, the…

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Our Serial STORY—"Murder She Yelled" What Has Gone Before

The Western Herald · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 2

In order to keep the good name of High Hill, a summer resort, untarnished, Al Kemmer, the proprietor, moved the…

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Declaring That Even A Waif Had A Right To Her Own Child, QC Makes Impassioned Plea to Court for Joan Murray Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

Judgment was reserved by the Full Supreme Court yesterday in the Wayne-Murray baby case after the Chief Justice (Mr. K. W. Street) said it was a matter of considerable difficulty and concern…

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Regard To Benefit [?] Police [?]

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

The proceeds of the Narromine Police and Fireman's Ball this [?] will be devoted to [?] extra room at the…

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"Trifling Assault" Possible Says Judge in Ruxton Case Solicitor Taken-in by Story of Shipwrecked Mind Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

It was possible that there may have been an affront or a "trifling assault" by police on David Studley-Ruxton, the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Dovey) said yesterday…

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Police Warning on Firearms

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 7

Inspector P. Kennedy, of Orange police, warned that persons under 16 are not permitted to use or carry…

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Tooraweenah Hotel License Police and Residents Object to Renewal

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 2

At the Licensing Court, Coonamble, on 22nd June, an unusual feature marked the normally smooth procedure of the annual renewal of publicans'…

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Unwilling Passengers Have Nightmare Ride As Police Chase Stolen Taxi SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 1

Three members of a family had a terrifying ride as the stolen taxi which they had hired to take them to the city was chased by police cars at breakneck Speeds along the Liverpool Road…

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Court Actions May Follow £160,000 Bequest, and Big Gift by Recluse Who Frightened, Lonely Lived in Big City Mansion Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 1

Two court actions of great public interest are expected to arise from the death of a lonely old woman of 90 who had been one of Australia's beauties 50 years ago…

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Police Needed Armored Car New York

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 3

Howard Ellis, 55, a Negro who went beserk when his wife tried yesterday to send him back to a mental hospital,…

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Woman Drunk In Court SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 3

A woman witness at the City Coroner's Court yesterday was so much under the influence that she didn't Know…

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Murder After Shipboard Party Newcastle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 3

A woman, who was found strangled in her Merewether home last Frday, had spent the previous night in his bunk…

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Our Serial STORY—"Murder She Yelled" What Has Gone Before

The Western Herald · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 2

Police are probing the gangster murder of an unidentified man found near High Hill, a summer resort. Midge Burnett,…

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Police, Teachers, Bank Officers, Skilled Workers Of All Kinds Cannot Get Homes in Dubbo: Expansion Halted

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 1

The Housing shortage has become so acute and is causing such a hindrance to business expansion that the Chamber of Commerce is making a survey of employers' needs for presentation to the…

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