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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Great Police Hunt For Motorist Who Left Boy 2, Dying On Roadway Hit-run Drivers Are As Bad As Murderers Says C.I.B. Chief SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 19 May 1954 · page 1

Police are conducting an intensive search of the South Coast for a car driver who knocked down a two-years-old boy last night and left him dying on the roadside…

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Motor Traffic Offences Continue, Court of Petty Sessions

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 8

At last week’s Court of Petty Sessions held at Coonabarabran before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M., motor…

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

The Western Herald · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 2

Midge Burnett, a guest at High Rill, a summer resort operated by Al Kemmer, tells Dan Morrison, athletic director…

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Greatest Man Hunt in Police History Seals City When Three Young Men Stabbed in Sydney Hostel Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 1

Early this afternoon police detained a man for questioning after one of the biggest manhunts in NSW police history following the stabbing of three youths in a Neutral Bay hostel last night…

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Judges Praises Police SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 1

Mr. Justice Kinsella said in the Supreme Court at Maitland yesterday that he had great admiration for the NSW Police…

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Cut Throat, Then Called Police SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 1

A friendless elderly man is believed to have called the police after he had cut his throat and later, as he lay…

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Series of Cases Coolah Court

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 15

A large number of cases was set down for hearing at the last Coolah Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M. but…

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A. & P. Returns and Parking Police Notices

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 3

Sgt. O. S. Lynch, officer in charge of the Coonabarabran Police Station said this morning there…

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£30,000 Mail Theft Theory SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 1

A carefully timed telephone call on Tuesday to Railway employees at Katoomba station gave a thief the…

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Coroner's Court

The Western Herald · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 7

An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Holland, who was seriously…

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Works Night, Day, And Weekends To Repay Theft SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 1

A former real estate agent said in court yesterday he worked five days a week as a driver, six nights a week as a painter, and as a gardener at weekends, to repay money he had gained by fraud…

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

The Western Herald · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 2

Midge Burnett, a guest at High Hill, a summer resort, finds a body in the woods. She takes Dan Morrison, resort…

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No Court Today Extra Sittings Next Month

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 1

The Dubbo Court of Petty Sessions did not sit today and will not sit again until June 11, but there will be…

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Police Changes

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 8

Sergeant Job, of Gulargambone, has been transferred to the metropolitan area, amongst a list of…

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Death Sentence for Train Murder Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 4

A 24-year-old laborer was sentenced to death yesterday for the murder of a CSIRO scientist in the Sydney-bound…

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A Week of Court

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 4

Commencing next Monday, court sittings will be held at Gilgandra from Monday to Friday in the…

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Seven Traffic Offences Charged Against Young Man After Three Injured in Motor Smash Damaging 4 Cars Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 1

Four cars were extensively damaged and three persons injured in a car accident in which a man was charged with seven traffic offenses, the Police Prosecutor told Burwood Court…

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Police Cycle Roars Across Road with Corpse on Handlebars As Death of Two Ends 70 M.P.H. Chase for Speed Cyclist Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 1

With siren screaming and travelling at 70 mph a police motor cycle knocked down and killed a man in Merrylands late yesterday afternoon. Rider of the cycle, Constable Cecil Sewell, 27,…

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"Shot Him a Lot of Times Teen Had Coffee Ad Went to Pictures" Police Story of Murder of Orange Taxi-man Orange

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

After shooting a taxi-driver a man said that he had a cup of coffee and had gone to the pictures, police told the Orange Coroner yesterday at the inquest into the death of Claude Donald Slattery 34…

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Bourke Police Court

The Western Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 4

The usual monthly Court was held in the Court House, Bourke, on Tuesday last week before Mr. F…

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