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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

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Robbery From Bank Statement Made by Teller Obtained by the Police. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 1

Mr. Reeves, Pinniger, the teller of the branch of the Commerce Bank at the corner of Balaclava and Hawthornroads, Caulfield, which was held up…

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Alleged Assault Challen Again Remanded

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

In the Police Court this morning before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., Louis Challen (29) was charged with having on December 21, at Thompson's…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., Gordon Roy Clendinnen, licensee of the Border Gate Hotel, Burns, was granted…

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Warden's Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

In the Warden's Court this morning, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, Mining Warden, Violet Haggarty, agent for Amy Yerrell, applied for and was…

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Boy Sent to Institution Over Theft of Money

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 1

A woman who lives in North Broken Hill reported to the police yesterday afternoon that on returning to her residence after visiting friends she…

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Police Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 1

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. C. Howie, J.P., Thomas O'Kane (38) was charged with having used indecent language in…

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A Prisoner Killed in Wellington Gaol a Fall of Earth Wellington (N.Z.), February 4

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 4

Harry Brown (52), a prisoner at the Terrace Gaol, was killed yesterday through a fall of earth in the prison yard…

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Ireland Arms and Ammunition in Underground Room Man Sent to Gaol (Reuter's Message.) London, February 2

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 1

Reuter's Dublin correspondent reports:— In connection with the discovery at Dublin in an underground room of a…

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London Night Clubs Two Raided by Police and Many Arrests Made (Reuter's Measage.) London, February 2

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 1

The police in the early hours of the morning carried out two large scale night club raids. The first club raided is situated at Long Acre, where…

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Police Court Cases Heard To-day

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 2

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. C. Howie, J.P., the following cases were dealt with:— — First Offender Fined. —…

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Drunken Motorists Imprisonment Threatened by Melbourne Magistrate

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 4

"Drunken motorists will be imprisoned in future," Mr. Knight, P.M. said in the Melbourne City Court on Tuesday (says a Melbourne message in…

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Pickpocket Captured Given 12 Months' Gaol Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 1

Feigning drunkenness. Arthur Cerini staggered heavily against a man named Anzelark in a Melbourne tram car and cutely lifted his watch, chain…

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Robbery at Brewery Three Boys Charged Fremantle

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 4

Three boys, aged 12, 8½ and 8 years, were charged in the Children's Court to-day with breaking, entering and stealing miscellaneous articles…

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World Court of Justice U.S.A. Foreign Committee Favors Adherence (Reuter's Message.) Vancouver, February 4

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 1

A message from Washington says that a resolution to put on record, the favoring of the United States adherence to a World Court of Justice has…

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Tom Walsh Is Charged with Urging a Strike. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

Three charges against Tom Walsh, president of the Seamen's Union, of urging a strike are proceeding in the Melbourne Poliee Court before Mr…

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Victorian Police Strike Report of Commission Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

The official report of the Royal Commission on the police strike rebukes Police-Chief Nicholson and criticises the administration of the…

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Murder Near Leningrad Zinovieff's Boon Companion (Reuter's Message.) London, February 5

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 1

Reuter's Moscow correspondent reports:— Zinovieff's boon companion, Knokerdin, of the Leningrad political bureau,…

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Shipping Seamen's Deregistration Refused by Federal Court. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

Mr. Justice Powers, in the Arbitration Court this afternoon, refused the application of the shipowners and the Federal Government for the…

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Seamen's Deresgistration President of Court to Give Judgment To-day Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 1

Mr. Justice Powers will deliver judgment at noon to-day in the application made by the shipowners for the deregistration of the Seamen's Union…

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Latest News Issue U.S.A. and World Court Proposal Laid on Shelf by Committee of Senate. (Reuter's Message.) Vancouver, February 5

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

A message from Washington states that the world court of justice proposal has virtually been laid on the shelf by the Senate Foreign Relations…

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