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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

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Theft of Stationery Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 February 1923 · page 1

Percival Taylor was to-day sentenced to six months imprisonment for stealing stationery from the Waterworks Department…

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Vagrancy Charge Woman Bent to Gaol

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 2

In the Police Court to-day before Mr. G. A, Stevenson, D.S.M., Ada Smith, alias Ada Francis, was charged with having insufficient lawful means of…

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Warden's Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 2

In the Warden's Court to-day Emma S. George was granted six months' suspension of residence conditions on mining tenement 557a, parish of Picton,…

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Ex-legislator in Court Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 4

Joseph Angus Thompson, a, former legislator in West Australia, appeared in the Adelaide Court to-day in connection with the departure of his grandson…

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Intervention in Divorce Court Connivance Alleged

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 February 1923 · page 1

A cable message from London states that the King's Proctor has intervened in a strange divorce case, in which a schoolmaster George Lantsberry…

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Guilty of Assault on Girl Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 4

In the Criminal Court to-day a [?] returned a verdict of guilty against Allan Edward Ellis (20), [?] with committing an assault on a girl…

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Murder of Dr. O'higgins (United Service Message.) London, February 13

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 February 1923 · page 1

"Wilful murder against persons unknown" was the verdict at the inquest on the body of Dr. O'Higgins, father of the Minister of Home…

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Boy Charged with Theft Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 4

Mrs. ' Charlotte Martiensen had savings totalling £56 in-her house at Semaphore hidden under the padded headpiece of a horsehair couch. A boy…

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Assault on a Constable. Four Months' Gaol

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 4

A young constable had an exciting struggle with an old offender in Bowenstreet, Adelaide, on Tuesday afternoon (reports the "Advertiser"). Michael…

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Alleged Child Abduction. a Former M.l.c. Charged Boy Removed From School

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 4

The disappearance of an eight-year old boy from a school in an eastern suburb of Sydney, and his transfer to a steamer bound for West Australia, was…

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Allegations of Fraud Upon Railway Department Three Men Charged £6000 INVOLVED Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 1

Three men were. charged at the Police Court yesterday with defrauding the Railway Department. The allegation by the Crown is that…

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Fined for Assault Victim Says Mind Is a Blank But Girl Proves the Charge

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 2

When Duncan Hutcheson tried to protect a girl who was being roughly, handled by Leslie Harold Brand (28) on Tuesday (reports the Sydney…

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British Election Candidate Sent to Gaol for Four Years Issued Worthless Cheques During the Campaign (Reuter's Message.)' London, February 15

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 1

"He was like Micawber, hoping for something to turn up," was the explanation suggested by counsel for the prosecution at the Old Bailey in the…

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Yarra River Tragedy Two Accused in Court Both Allowed Bail Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 1

The death of Bertha Coughlan was mentioned in the Melbourne Police Court yesterday, when Thomas Cook (38), a grazier and horse trainer, of…

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German Reparations German Security Police Being Disarmed by French Many Newspapers Suspended (Reuter's Message.} Paris, February 15

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 1

Advices received from Dusseldorf state that in consequence of the growing effervescence of the population, esperially, at Bochum. Castrop. Herne,…

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Boy Charged with Theft Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 8

Mrs. Charlotte Martiensen had savings totalling £56 in her house at Semaphore hidden under the padded headpiece of alhorsehair couch. A boy…

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Assault on a Constable. Four Months' Gaol

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 8

A young constable had an exciting struggle with an old offender in Bowenstreet, Adelaide, on Tuesday afternoon (reports the "Advertiser"). Michael…

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Union Secretary Sentenced Theft of £846 Wellington (N.Z,)

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 1

James George Bruce, formerly secretary of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union in New Zealand, was yesterday found guilty of the theft of…

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Union Secretary Sentenced Theft of £848 Wellington'(N.Z,)

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 1

James George Bruce, formerly secretary of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union in New Zealand, was yesterday found' guilty of the theft of…

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Manias Lead to Theft

Western Grazier · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 4

There are persons who passage a carriage of great intensity, but of very restated scope, for one very litsited class of objects. These are…

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