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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
573 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 20 of 29
The libel action brought by LieutenantColonel Ricardo against the Observer was concluded yesterday afternoon. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with £500…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON August 10 and 17, Mr. Holcombe, P.M at Milparinka, heard a charge of horse-stealing against William Hill and James Collins. They were seemed of taking one brown gelding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A case of some interest occupied the attention of Mr Smithers, S.M., at the Water Police Court this afternoon when Richard Sleath, described on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE Mr. Maitland, P.M., this morning Thomas Collins, who was found lying in the rain by Constable O'Keefe, was fined 10s. or three days. For abusing his rescuer he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SYDNEY correspondent wires:—At the Water Police Court on Friday Richard Sleath, M.L.A., was summoned for leaving his wife, Jane Sleath, withcut means of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Rockhampton yesterday afternoon John Raben, charged with the murder Fanny Hardick, was found guilty and sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSES. Maitland, P.M., [?]nd G. A. Mills, J.P., o[?]c[?]pid the Li[?]nting bench to-day. A special cert[?]fcale of transfer w[?]s g[?]tc[?] from John Eastman, propiletor of the Cable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Carlton shooting case has taken a new turn. The police now believe the case not to be one ol burglary but the result of jealousy. The woman, Mrs. Stephens, has been, it is alleged. on terms of familiarity with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Cairns telegram statis that the Duranda police report that the remains of an aboriginal named Cooper, supposed to have been murdered, hare been found in the scrub. Another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ignatius Nel and O. Lategan, two Cape rebels, have been sentenced to be shot for treason and murderously firing on British troops at Cambedoo. Four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Taroom telegram states that Ellen founquey and a child, 2 months old, have bean murdered in the Taroom c[?]t[?]ry. The particulars of the murder are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A brutal murder is reported from Taroom (Q.), a small township about 180 miles south of Rockhampton. A young women named Ellen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. MAITLAND bad a very light Monday morning list again to-day. Michael Sullivan did the "hat trick" for drunkenness. On Saturday he was fines 20s. or seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →M'Lean, sentenced to death for the murder of the Martin family, was executed this morning. The arrangements were satisfactory, and death was instantaneous. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUB INSPECTOR TRAVERS this morning received telegraphic information that last night about ll o'clock, the mail coach was stuck up five miles from White Cliffs. The bushranger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A mysterious affair is reported from North Melbourne. Early this morning George Hill, 23, a hawker, was murderously a saulted with a weapon like a chisel, and he received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The man Frederick Pines (who came on the scene while the robber was going through the mail bags, and who was detained by the police on his arrival at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly last night, Mr. Bleath moved the adjournment to disciss the need of additional police at White Cliffs, a need proved by Sunday night's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Sleath moved the adjournment of the Assembly to discuss the refusal of the Inspector-General of Police to provide police protection for the mail coach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. MAITLAND, P.M, presided in the Police Court to-day. James Hassett, for drunkenness, was fined 5s. or 24 hours. Harold Gray was summoned by Jane Brown for unlawfully…
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