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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
172 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 9
IT was some time after the appointed hour that the first circuit court ever held in Broken Hill was opened in the Carrington Hall, as a temporary expedient,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After our report closed yesterday evening, William White was indicted for uttering a counterfeit coin on December 24…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A peculiar robbery has been committed at the Pentridge gaol. After the prisoners had been locked up last night, Warden Williams discovered that his room had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Cleghorn was charged with the murder of Edward Fielder, at Broken Hill, on October 7. Prisoner pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is something awe-inspiring, not to Bay gruesome, about the inside of a courthouse when, the whole paraphernalia of Justice is dug out of the old clothes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After our report closed yesterday, the judge having concluded his summing up in the case of arson brought against Charles May, the jury retired, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AFTER our report closed on Thursday afternoon, Charles Clark was presented before Mr. Justice Stephen and charged with maliciously. wounding his wife, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albert John Bonney, a painter, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife on Sunday morning. The woman was found dead on the floor of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Tuesday, befose Messrs. Thomson, Crommelin, and Barnes, Charles Robert Murphy was charged with assaulting, Joseph Thwaites on the 22nd instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday, before Mr. C. A. Ring, J. P., Richard Hall was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Burke-street on Tuesday; also with using…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSRS. Williams and Butterworth, Js.P., presided at the Broken Hill police court this morning. A man named Sholefield, a miner, earning £3 per week, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The coroner's jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder of his wife against Albert J. Bonnie, an Adelaide painter, who has been committed for trial on the charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT Silverton on Thursday, before Mr. Warden Gower, John Thomas Charles sued Patrick McMahon to recover £33 15s. for work done at the Hidden Secret…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Samuel Myers alias Morris, and Thomas Bishop alias Phillips, two welshers, were arrested at Randwick on Monday, and, being brought before the court, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UP to 3 o'clock this afternoon no trace had been discovered of the one-armed man Thomas Simpson, who, a prisoner of the police, succeeded in eluding the vigilance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. WYMAN BROWN, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Under Secretary of the department of Justice:—"Referring to your letter of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday, before Mr. Ring, J.P., Thomas Wilson was charged with drunkenness in Burke-atreet on the 27th inst. He pleaded guilty, and was dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ernest Buttrier, a German restauranteur, was recommended by the jury to mercy on the charge of committing a criminal assault upon Jessie Lennox, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTICE is given in the last Gazette to hand that a Revision Courts, for the purpose of revising the electoral, list for the Broken Hill portion of the Sturt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Query "Where are the police?" has passed into a proverb, and is supposed to have a reproachful significance. But although the blue uniform has during the…
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