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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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North Sydney Coining Plant. the Two Youells Convicted and Sentenced. Five Years' Imprisonment Each. Interesting Statement Bydetective Ward Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday William Edward Youell and William James Youell were each sentenced to five years' penal servitude in connection…

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Persian Tragedies. Russian Subjects Murder Finance Minister. Also Covernor of Ispahan. [Reuter's Message.] Teheran

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 2

The murdered Persian Minister of Finance (Said-ed-Dowleh) died from seven wounds indicted upon him by Mauser pistols…

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Russian Murder Case. Further Developments. Typewriter As Evidence Against Delaoy. [Reuter's Massage.] St. Petersburg

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 2

The typewriter which is being used in the prosecution's evidence against Count Delacy, one of the accused in the Russian murder case, was brought…

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Police Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 February 1911 · page 2

At a sitting of the Police Court this morning, presided over by Mr. W. N. Dove, S.M., a first offender was fined 5s.—in default three hours' gaol for…

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Accused in Court. Dyason and Donwick Remanded

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 February 1911 · page 4

Edward C. Dyason, mining investor, was at the Melbourne City Court on Monday, charged with having conspired at West Australia with E. W…

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Builders' Laborers' Trouble. Proposed Reference to the Arbitration Court. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 February 1911 · page 2

To a meeting of the Victorian branch of the Builders' Laborers' Federation last night the delegates from the branch to the recent conference…

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Cockburn Police Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

The Cockburn correspondent of "The Miner" writes:— On Thursday morning, before Mr. E. J. Lane, James Green, alias James…

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Police Court. To-day's Sittings

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

This morning's sitting of the Police Court was presided over by Mr. W. N. Dove, S.M. A Violent Man…

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The Wallan Tragedy. Inquest on Victim's Body. Five Men Committed for Trial. Charged with Murder. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

An inquest was held yesterday concerning the death of Arthur Ernest Lupton, a young married man, lately residing at St. Kilda, who was battered…

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Russian Finn in Irons. Charged with Attempted Murder. on the High Seas. Escape at Victor Harbor. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 8

Intense excitement was created at Victor Harbor on Wednesday by the report that a seaman, said to be a Russian Finn, who had been chained in…

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Alleged Theft of a Bicycle. Accused Remanded

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 8

A young man named Edward Lakovsky, of Russian nationality, was charged at the Police Court this afternoon with the larceny of a bicycle,…

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The Houndsditch Murder. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

Lena Vassileva, a cigarette maker, who has been absent from home since the Hundsditch murder, reappeared yesterday in a destitute condition. Her hair…

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Clapham Common Murder. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

At the trial of Steiner Morrison, charged with the murder of a Jew named Boron on Clapham Common, the analysts stated that they found human…

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Small Debts Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

Mr. W. N. Dove, S.M., adjudicated in the Small Debts Court this morning, and gave a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, with costs, for an amount…

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The Pentridge Sensation. Negro Prisoner King's Outbreak. Brought Before Visiting Magistrate. Remanded for a Week. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

The negro prisoner King, whose frequent outbreaks of violence at Pentridge prison have caused great anxiety to the gaol authorities, on Wednesday…

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Gaol Regulations. To the Editor

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 February 1911 · page 5

Sir,—Will you allow me, through the columns of "The Miner," to draw the attention of the authorities who control the gaols to what I believe to…

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A Northern Territory Tragedy. Black Boy Killed. White Man Committed on Charge of Murder. Port Darwin

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 February 1911 · page 4

Joseph Smith was brought into Palmerston on Wednesday, having been committed for trial on a charge of murder…

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Wanted to Marry the Girl. But Her Mother Objects. Interesting Court Case

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 February 1911 · page 8

Solomon Grundaman,(25) was charged at the Sydney Police Court on Thursday with taking Annie Marion Sutton, aged 19, out of the custody of her…

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Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen. Proceedings in the Arbitration Court. Against Broken Hill Mine Companies. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 February 1911 · page 4

The Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia will commence an action in the Federal Arbitration Court, sitting at Melbourne…

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Civil Servant in Trouble. Charged with Theft. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 February 1911 · page 8

At the Adelaide Police Court to-day William P. Gibbons, who was one of the Civil servants transferred to the Commonwealth when the Northern…

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