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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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Simultaneously with the proclamation of martial law over the strike area a battle occurred between a strikers' commando and the police at Benoni Springs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news of fighting in the Far East Rand, when it reached Benoni, awakened an exchange of shots in the Market Square. Then a rifle cracked and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The secretary of the Butchers' Union, a slaughterman at the Hobart abattoirs, was charged at the City Police Court on Wednesday with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another mysterious "movie" murder is reported this time from Camden, New Jersey. The victim was John Brunen, a picture theatre promoter and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →There has been considerable shooting and bombing in Belfast. Two policemen and a lieutenant of the Seaforth Highlanders were killed, and many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The story of an alleged assault on a married woman, which was supposed to have taken place in the dark room of a photographer's studio at Berri,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Several men were yesterday sentenced to six months' imprisonment in connection with a disturbance at Newtown on Saturday night, when several…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The High Court judgment in respect to the claim of J. Cooke and Co., Field, and others versus the Commonwealth Government and the Central Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chief Justice said that he understood that Mr. Brennan wisdied to call further evidence. Nothing had been shown, however, that the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The State Full Court, comprising Sir William Irvine, the Chief Justice, Sir L. Cussen, and Mr. Justice Schutt, to-day heard the appeal of Colin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →William Richard Thomas and Evangelina Nellie Reynolds were yesterday charged, in connection with what are known as the "mystery fires," with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Engineering Employers' Federation, in a further statement issued to-day, repudiate the suggestion that they are out to smash the trade unions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Application for leave to appeal in the case of Colin Campbell Ross, who is under sentence of death for the murder of Alma Tirtschke on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A revolver, a nickel-plated jemmy, dum-dum bullets, and property worth about £300 came into the possession of the Sydney police after detectives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ronald True, aviator, appeared in the police court to-day charged with the murder of Gertrude Yates, who was found dead in the bathroom at her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a few short hours, owing to the genius of General Smuts, the Prime Minister, Johannesburg has been translated from a city of revolutionary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The State Full Court, comprising Sir William Irvine, the Chief Justice. Sir L. Cussen, and Mr. Justice Schutt, to-day continued the hearing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a conference of the executives of the Labor Council of the Amalgamated Engineers' Union it was decided to appoint a deputation, consisting of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the Police Court to-day, before Mr. A. R. Perry, S.M., John Alexander Wilson a taxicab driver, pleaded guilty to a charge of having on March 11,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young man named Harry Ward walked into Newton Heath Police Station, Manchester, on January 27 and stated that he was the man who…
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