Circuit Court. List of Cases
The Circuit Court will open in Broken Hill on Monday next. Mr. Acting Justice Gibson will preside, and Mr.. M. E. Sonne has been appointed…
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Courts & crime, 1908
1,651 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 83
Local Option Court. Sydney
The Local Option Court yesterday decided that the number of hotels at Paddington be reduced by four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Drolleries. Remarkable Extracts From Authentic Records
In the time of George II. of land, no less than 223 crimes were punishable by death. Cursing one's parents, Subbath-breaking, blasphemy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Armed Boy Burclars. Police Fired at in a Country House
Sensational details of an encounter with four armed alleged boy burglars, who are said to have fired eight shots in a country house near Blackpool,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Divorce Court. Suit Against Ex-Sheriff. Sydney
In the Divorce Court yesterday Mr. Justice Simpson delivered his reserved judgment in the suit of Rose Clarissa Cowper for dissolution of her marriage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Union Label Case. Before the High Court. Sydney
What is known as the union label case was before the High Court yesterday. The case is likely to occupy some days. The question was raised in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Glenelg Murder. Coleman Not Yet Found. Gun Fished Up in Crab Net. Adelaide
The police have not yet found the whereabouts of Joe Coleman, the master fisherman, who early on Sunday morning shot Constable Ring. An old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Disputes Bill, Further Considered by the Assembly. Good Progress Made. Provision for an Emergency Court. Sydney
The Assembly, in committee, last night had the Industrial Disputes Bill under consideration for six hours. Most of the time of the committee…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Attempted Murder. Sentenced to Seven Years' Imprisonment. Brisbane
At the Toowoomba Criminal Sittings yesterday George Morris was found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife, and was sentenced to seven 'years'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Solicitor Horwitz. His Application for Liberty. Full Court Reserves Consideration. Melbourne
The Full Court to which the matter was referred by the Chief Justice, has postponed its consideration of the application by Louis Horwitz, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ballarat Tragedy. Iles Seen with Madge Graham. on the Night of the Murder. Pawns the Woman's Ring. Melbourne
Dewer, the prospector who discovered the body of Madge Graham, the victim of the Ballarat tragedy, in a shaft, at the Ballarat police court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Third Edition. the Glenelg Murder. Unavailing Search for Coleman. Theory of Escape by Boat Apparently Fallacious. Adelaide
The police are continuing a vigorons prosecution of inquiries, so far resultess, in to the whereabouts of James Albert ("Joe") Coleman, the master…
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In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. M'Kensey, S.M.. Catherine Fdwards, remanded from the previous day, was fined 5s. or one day's gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Glenelg Murder. Coleman Still at Large. Police Making Exhaustive Investigations. Adelaide
The police remain reti[?]nt as [?]o the exact plan of action they have adopted in searching for Coleman, but Sub[?] spector Priest says that the authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The District Court
His Honor Mr. Acting-Justice Gibson returned to the city from Wilcannia yesterday afternoon, and will preside at the District Court, to be opened at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Police Force. Sydney
According to the annual report of Mr. Garvin, Inspector-General of Police, the police force at the end of 1907 numbered 2446 in all ranks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Special Licensing Court. To the Editor
Sir,—Now that Mr. Bevan, the barrister, is in Broken Hill, I should like to ask him, through your columns, if the following statement, mide by Mr. S. J. Jacobs, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suppressing Indecen[?] Language. Four Cases Before the Court
In the summons division of the Police Court this morning, before Mr. M'Kensey, S.M., John Morton wrns convicted of having used indecent language…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Absconding From Bail. Quong Lee Before the Court
Quong Lee, the Chinese who in July last was committed for trial on a charge of maliciously wounding one John Francis, who breaking his hail, left the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sentenced for Housebreaking. Melbourne
At the Criminal Court to-day James Barnes and Alfred Cropley, charged with housebreaking, were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment…
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