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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
1,037 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 52
Another street disturbance occurred at about half-past 7 o'clock last night in the vicnity of Biggs's Commercial Hotel—a disturbance not as serious as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nellie Hodges, a married woman, residing in Kaolin-street was charged beFore Mr. Dove, D.S.M., this morning, with having attempted to commit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Numerous complaints have been made to the police regarding the business of the clairvoyants. The detectives visited the rooms, of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Joseph Dean, a miner, shot his wife with a pea rifle at Rutherglen yesterday and then, finding what he had done, cut his own throat. He will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Dove, D.S.M., in the Police Court to-day, inflicted the following fines:—Michael Moore, drunk, 5s. or one day; same offender, drunk in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Justice Eagleson, presiding at the General Sessions to-day, sentenced the following prisoners:—Henry Lamont, shopbreaking in the city and stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alfred Land, a clerk, has surrendered to the police for murdering Miss Lake, an English woman, in a wood near Essen, Germany, in October last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Seeing that Broken Hill has emerged from the state of a mining town into that of a large industrial city, and that the population promises…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Humphries appeared before Mr. Dove, D.S.M., in the Police Court this morning, charged with "that you, on February 11, 1907, did maliciously shoot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After lasting seven weeks, during which 97 witnesses were examined, the trial of Charles Tucker and Frederick William Forwood for defrauding the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is reported that £1,000,000 worth of the State of New York stocks and transfer tax stamps are missing at Albany…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alfred Land a clerk, has surrendered to the police for murdering Miss Lake, an English woman, in a wood near Esson, Germany, in October last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the City Court to-day great interest was taken in the appearance of Romeal Perara, known as the "Little Cingalese," a spirit medium, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After lasting seven weeks, during which 97 witnesses were examined, the trial of Charles Tucker and Frederick William Forwood for defrauding the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Celestial named Ah You has been arrested at Castlemaine on a charge of murdering Ah To[?]. The accused, who is an elderly, d[?]repit man, had,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The police expect to make an early arrest in connection with the murder at Castlemaine of an elderly Chinaman, whose body with the head battered,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A terrible tragedy occurred at St. Peters last evening. Samuel Joseph Leith, aged 45, a laborer, shot Henry Albert Medhurst, aged 60, dead with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Matthew M'Cluskey and George Whiteworth were committed for trial at the City Court to-day for the theft of a portmanteau belonging to Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The police who are investigating the murder of an elderly Chinaman at Castlemaine have gathered evidence to show that two Chinese were seen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mystery of the East and of the occult sc[?]nces was imported into the Police Court yesterday, when Meyer Singh, a fine specimen of the Oriental…
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