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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

1,252 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 63

Nearly Burnt to Death. Three Women in Danger. "A Neighbor Charged with Arson

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 8

A fire, attended by circumstance that culminated. in an arrest, was reported to the Footscray fire station at 1.51 a.m. on Monday, The scene was…

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Smuccling Affray. Police and Crew Fight a Duel. [Reuter'a Message.] Philadelphia

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 4

The police raided the liner Mongolian, and found large quantics of smuggled goods aboard. They endeavored to arrest some members' of the…

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Chinaman and "Palm Oil." Charge of Attempted Burglary

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 2

At the Melbourne Court of General Sessions on Monday, before Acting Judge Gurner, Ang Way, a Chinese, was charged with having attempted to…

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Gillies Plains Murder. Prisoner Found Not Guilty. on Grounds of Insanity. Detained in Adelaide Gaol. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 2

The Gillies Plains murder trial ended yesterday, when Ruskin was found not guilty on the ground of insanity. The Judge ordered the accused to be…

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Woman Vagrant. Sent to Gaol for Three Months

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 2

Alice Neales was charged in the Broken Hill Police Court to-day before Mr. C. F. Butler. S.M., with having no lawful visible means of support…

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The Bankstown Murder. No Clue Discovered. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 4

The police have not succeeded in discovering any clue as to the identity of the murderer of the girl found dead at Bankstown…

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South Australia. Gilles Plains Murder Case. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 4

In giving evidence in the Gilles Plains murder case, in which William Ruskin is charged with the murder of George Hillburn on December 21 last, Dr…

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Cold-blooded Murder. Girl Battered to Death. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 4

A girl named Esther Porter, aged 14, has been found in the bush, near the Punchbowl Railway Station, with her head battered. No clue as to the…

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Sydney Gas Strike. Meeting in the Town Hall. Citizens and Undergraduates Determined to Have Light. Several Hundred Volunteers for the Gasworks. Wild Melee Between Strikers and Police. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 2

Immense crowds attended the meeting yesterday convened by the Mayor in the Town Hall to decide on a course of action in connection with the gas…

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Striker Sent to Gaol. Perth

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 2

Thomas Davis who was arrested yesterday for interfering with a nonunionist driver of a lorr[?] gaol for three months with hard labor…

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The Bankstown Murder. No Clue Discovered. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 4

The police have not succeeded in dis[?]overing any clue as to the identity of the murderer of the girl found dead at Bankstown…

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Alleged Wife Desertion. Man From Cobar Charged. Case Remanded

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 5

At this morning's sitting of the Broken Hill Police Court, presided over by Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., a man named Andrew James Marshall was…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, March 8, 1913. the Double Murder in India

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

THE murder of a wife and a husband, of which the particulars have dribbled out by cable during the last few Weeks, has now been fixed without…

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Police Court. This Morning's Sittings

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 2

At this morning's sitting of the Broken H[?] [?]once Court presided over by Mr. C. F. Butlor, S.M., a first offender pleaded guilty to having been drunk on…

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Charged with Forgery. Two Brothers Arrested. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 2

Two (brothers were arrested on Saturday in connection with the alleged forgery of a cheque in Melbourne on the national Bank of Australia to the…

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The Suffragettes. a Heavy Sentence. Gaol Posts and Sureties. [Reutor's Message.] London, Friday Evening

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 4

Miss Lillian Locke, one of the chief militant suffragettes, who was likely to become only secondly notorious to Mrs. Pankhurst, was to-day sentenced to 18…

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Variation of Maintenance Order Application to the Court. Request Refused

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 4

At this morning's sitting of the Broken Hill Police Court, before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., Frederick James Faul asked for a variation of an order made…

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Girl Burglar. Fifteen and Uncontrollable. Remanded to Children's Court. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 4

A girl named Daisy Robertson, otherwise Rofe, who was arrested yesterday in connection with a series of suburban robberies, turns out to be only 15, and…

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Alleged Tampering with Water Meter. Wrong Man in Court. an Adjournment Granted

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 March 1913 · page 4

At this morning's sitting of the Broken Hill Police Court, presided over by Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., Anthony Hall, instructed by the Broken Hill…

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Police Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 2

At this morning's sitting of the Police Court, presided over by Mr. C. F. [?] S.M. Thomas William Gaunt, who had six prior convictions against him,…

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