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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
2,221 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 112
There was considerable surprise at the resemption of the K[?]antz case when the prosecutor declared that the would withdraw the murder charge and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The case in which Frank Ricketts (37), a chemise, Harold M'Ewan (29), salesman, and Patrick Kelly (24), trimmer, were charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Los Angeles message states that the trial has commenced of Edward Hickman and a youthful companion named Welby Hunt for the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Mason was convicted at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions for having feloniously slain Edwin Elliott in the Parramatta Gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The magistrate at Junee yesterday sentenced a boy who had been charged with stealing a watch, to attend school more than 90 per cent, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Velma West, 21 years of age, the daughter of a prominent Cleveland family, returned home on a recent afternoon with her husband, a wealthy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"It is about two years since I met Haines. He came into my shop in Adelaide to sell silver, and I paid 1/6 an ounce for it. I have bought about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An amazing story was told at the Ballarat Police Court yesterday when Jan Mahomed and Boota Barba, both Hindus, and Marguerita Mahomed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"If you don't come, I will shoot you dead." This was a threat Alexander Chalmers, of Cessnock, is alleged to have hurled at Eileen Ward, a married…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., the Case was called in which Giovanni Cuniol (29) was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a quarrel following a wedding at Ingham on Wednesday night an Italian, Rosirs Grasso (29), was shot dead. The quarrel started between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"If you are going to bring any returned soldier business into this affair, I don't want to hear yon," said Mr. May, P.M., to a defendant in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An item in "The Barrier Miner" of yesterday stated that a magistrate at Junee ordered a boy charged with stealing a watch to attend school for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clements, were found murdered in their home at Bulumwal, about 19 miles from Bairnsdale, last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A charge of murder was recorded against a clearing contractor, Edward Patrick Minorgan (45), at the inquest held at Perenjori yesterday by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, S.M., in dealing with a drunken motor driver at the Central Police Court yesterday, referred to what he termed the clamor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The new code laws, just introduced in Italy bode ill for motorists. A speed limit of 15 k.p.h. (about 9 m.p.h.) is to be rigidly enforced in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The police believe that the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Clements, at Bulumwaal first struck them over the bead with the butt of apea rifle, but when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An elderly, couple, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clements, were found murdered in their home at Bulumwal, about 19 miles from Bairnsdale, last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. K. Lee, the Minister for Justice, foreshadowed an important alteration in the method of dealing with minor police court cases. He said that…
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