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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

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Gaol for Poplar Councillors for Not Levying Council Rates No Rent Strike Expected High Unemployment Pay (Reuter's Message.) London, August 30

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 August 1921 · page 4

Unless the writs issued are suspended 30 Poplar councillors will go to prison on September 1 for their refusal to levy the London County Council rates,…

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Motor Mechanic's Mania for Stealing Motor Cycles Liked Taking Risks'

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 4

Geoffrey Wilson (23), a motor mechanic appeared at the Paddington Police Court on Tuesday on a charge of having stolen six motor cycles of…

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Unemployed in Britain Decide to Go to Workhouse Strikers Sent to Gaol (Reuter's Message.) London, September 1

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 4

A meeting of Shoreditch (London) unemployed to-day rejected the Board of Guardians' offer of unemployment pay and decided to demand admission,…

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Famine in Russia. Russian Relief Committee Charged by Soviet Govt. "Foreigners to the Devil" (Reuter's Message.) Paris, September 1

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 1

A message from Helsingfors includes' a Bolshevik communique referring to the dissolution of the Pan-Russian Relief Committee. The Soviet charges it…

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Sydney Meat Prices Revised by Anti-profiteering Court Increases and Reductions Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 1

An application was made before Judge Beeby in the Profiteering Court yesterday for the first revision of the monthly prices for meat. Judge Beeby…

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Martial Law in Virginia. Guerilla Fighting Reported Between Miners And:police Eight Deaths Reported (Reuter's Message.) New York, August 31

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 1

President Harding has announced a state of martial law in the Virginia colliery districts. Guerilla fighting continues. It is reported that eight…

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A "Genius" Sent to Gaol

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 1

Benjamin Howell Jones, a collier, was sentenced at Carmarthen on June 25 to 11 months' imprisonment, with hard labor, on charges of stealing…

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Motor Mechanic's Mania for Stealing Motor Cycles Liked Taking Risks

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 4

Geoffrey Wilson (25), a motor mechanic, appeared at the Paddington Police Court on Tuesday on a charge of having stolen six motor cycles of…

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Manslaughter by Motorist. Twelve Months' Gaol for Mr. Henry Beecham

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 2

The trial of Henry Beecham, charged with the manslaughter of Charles Collis, aged 6, who was killed by the defendant's motor car at Baldock on…

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Manslaughter by Motorist. Twelve Months' Gaol for Mr. Henry Beecham

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 2

The trial of Henry Beecham, charged with the manslaughter of Charles Collis, aged 6, who was killed by the defendant's motor car at Baldock on…

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Furious Motoring Eight Months in Gaol for British Ex-officer

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 1

At Nottingham Assizes (England) Mr. Justice Avory passed sentence of eight months' imprisonment in the second division on George Stubley (24),…

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Unemployed in Britain Decide to Go to Workhouse Strikers Sent to Gaol (Reuter's Message.) London, September 1

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 4

A meeting of Slioreditch (London) unemployed to-day rejected the Board of Guardians' offer of unemployment pay and decided to demand admission…

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SIMMONS V. Proprietary Compensation Appeal Allowed by Full Court Entitled to £3 a Week Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 2

In the Full Court yesterday the appeal of David Simmons v. the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited was heard…

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SIMMONS V. Proprietary Compensation Appeal Allowed by Full Court Entitled to £3 a Week Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 2

In the Full Court yesterday the appeal of David Simmons v. the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited was heard…

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Arbitration Court First Sitting Held To-day Under Industry Peace Act Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 September 1921 · page 2

The Federal Arbitration Court, as newly constituted under the Industrial Peace Act, will sit for the first time to-day to deal with the question of…

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Couple Wedded in Broken Hill Divorced in Adelaide Court Two Co-respondents Alleged Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 September 1921 · page 4

Before Mr. Justice Parsons to-day Percival Claude Lawry, a Port Pirie storekeeper, petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Lily S. Lawry, on the…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 September 1921 · page 2

A sitting of the Licensing Court was held at the Courthouse to-day, presided over by Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M., chairman of the licensing bench…

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Alleged Theft of £1350 Orsova Purser Remanded Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 September 1921 · page 4

A man giving the name of Black Prior was before the Adelaide Police Court to-day charged with having on August 31 [?] Melbourne stolen £1350,…

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Police Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 September 1921 · page 2

William Henry Bollen (59) appeared before Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, charged with having had stored at the goods sheds of the…

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Two Men Sentenced to Death for Murder of George Legard Two Years for Manslaughter. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 September 1921 · page 4

Charles Wentworth (27) and Samuel Hill (35) were charged at the Sydney Criminal Court yesterday with the murder of George Legard, a bootmaker,…

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