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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

2,221 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 112

R. A. Schmidt Charged

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 4

The first called was the adjourned case in which Roy Allen Schmidt was charged with having [?] a taxi cab as a bus…

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Woman Is Acquitted on Charge of Murder Ill-treatment Was Alleged Against Dead Husband Tamworth

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 1

At Tamworth yesterday Mrs. Allen Hoey, of Inverell, stood her trial on a charge of having murdered her husband, Norman Clifford Hoeym shearing…

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Police Court

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 2

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., Charles John Harman (69) pleaded guilty to a charge of having been…

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R. A. Schmidt Charged

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 6

The first called was the adjourned case in which Roy Allen Schmidt was charged with having plied a taxi cab as a bus…

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Troubled Samoa 400 Members of Mau Police Have Been Given Gaol Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 1

Four hundred Mau police in Samoa have been convicted of intimidation of other natives for dealing with European shopkeepers. They have been…

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Defaulting Trustee Money Spent While in Gaol to Support His Family

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 3

A case involving the defiance by a trustee of an order of court, and which is believed to be unique in the annals of British legal proceedings, was…

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Alleged Shooting Woman in Hospital and Husband in Gaol. Fremantle

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 1

Lucy Cleo Jean Hitchcock (27) was admitted to the Fremantle Hospital late yesterday afternoon with a bullet wound in the back of the neck. Harold…

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N.S.W. Police Force Concessions Sought Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 1

The president and secretary of the Police Association will interview Mr. A. Bruntnell, the Chief Secretary, next Monday to request him to increase…

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The Melun Murder Offer of Reward for Murderer's Arrest Hue and Cry After Car. (A.p.a. Message.) Paris, March 1

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 1

A big Paris jeweller has offered a reward of 10.000 francs for the arrest of the murderer of Gaston Truphene, whose partly-burnt body was found…

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Guilty of Burglary Three Prisoners Sentenced to 7 Years' Imprisonment Bundaberg

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 1

James Short, Victor Plant, and Joseph Grealey were each sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on charges of breaking, entering, and…

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Russian Executions Pope Sentenced To-death

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

The Vatican was amused rather than surprised when it received an official communication from the Soviet Government condemning the Pipe to…

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Bankruptcy Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 3

In the Bankruptcy Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., the public examination and single meeting of creditors of Charles Ashton…

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Magistrate Gives Warning About Future of Child Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 1

"Your child will be on the bread line all his life if you don't send him to school," was the warning addressed by the police magistrate at the Leeton…

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New South Wales Alleged Theft of Money Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 1

A clerk in a city office was arrested on Saturday and charged with having stolen £500. It is alleged that the total defalcations may reach £2000…

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Naked in a Garden Man Blames Companions for Stealing His Clothing Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 1

Frank Redman, a young man, who was found naked in the garden of a house at Kew, told a strange story to the police. He said that he had been…

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Alleged Bag Snatchers Are Arrested by Police

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 1

Sydney, Monday. The daring exploits of a bag snatching gang who had been operating in the eastern suburbs during the past…

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Tests for Drunkenness Some Employed by Police

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

A remarkable test for drunkenness was described in Marlborough-street Police Court London, by Dr. Gorsky, police surgeon for the "A" Division of…

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Unlicensed Barber Fined in Court To-day

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 3

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., Chief Health Inspector D. H. Wallace proceeded against Johannes Karauas…

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Murder of an Infant Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 1

The coroner yesterday returned a verdict of murder against some person unknown at the conclusion of the in quest regarding the death of an infant…

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Womans Outraged in Darlinghurst Flat Complaint to Police Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 1

An amazing story was told to the Darlinghurst police by a young married woman early this morning. She stated that as she was walking along…

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