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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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The Timber Depute in New South Wales Picket Before the Court for Assaulting Worker Released As First Offender Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 1

At the parramatta Court yesterday, John Pickering (24) a laborer, who was a timber picket, was charged with assaulting Frederick Gibson, a timber…

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Escapee Surrenders to the Keeper of the Gaol Adelaide, Later

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 2

Jennings at 1 o'clock this morning surrendered to the authorities at Mount Gambier. He rang the bell at the gaol and awakened the keeper,…

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Escape From Gaol an Alleged Shopbreaker in a Stolen Motor Car Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 2

Horace Percival Jennings (20), of short build, with fair hair, and his right arm withered, who was on remand in the Mount Gambier Gaol on…

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Railway Guard Charged with Thefts of Parcels Fined on Another Charge Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 1

In the Barwood Police Court to-day Henry Charles Bentley, railway guard, was charged with alleged wholesale thefts of parcels consigned to Moss…

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Police Make an Arrest in Another Redfern Case Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 3

The husband of May Depena, the woman who was badly gashed with a razor at her home at Redfern on Monday night was arrested at the pisto[?]…

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Papuan Natives' Attack on Police Last Month Details Reach Sydney Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 1

Details of the attack on police officers in Papua last month show that the officers demanded the handing over of a murderer at the village of Goliula,…

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Former Police Sergeant to Receive Compensation Records to Be Amended London, March 4

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 1

Replying to Mr. J. H. Hayes (Labor), Sir William Joynson-Hicks (Secretary of State for Home Affairs) announced in the House of Commons…

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Queensland Tragedy Chemist Wipes Out Family Is Opinion of the Police Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 3

After breaking into a house at A[?]chenflower to-day the pol[?]ce [?]und the dead bodies of Alfred Ellwood, a chemist, his wife, and two children, a…

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Schoolgirl Found Dead with Head in Gas Stove No Reason for the Act Discovered by the Police Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 1

Irene Fandell (15), a schoolgirl, was found dead with her head in the gas oven of the kitchen at premises in North Sydney late last night. The gas…

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Police Court Defendant Pleads Guilty to Charge of Vagrancy

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 3

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. C. Pickup, J.P., Richard Pritchard (44) was charged with being an idle and disorderly person,…

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Two Laborers Charged with Assaulting a Worker Defendants Are Remanded Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Carl Jensen (24) and John James Lucas (29), laborers, were remanded in the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having assaulted Josua…

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The Grown Loses Appeal in Sydney Assault Case Constable Not on Duty Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

In October last Alexander Coleman was alleged to have struck Constable Horn on the jaw at the Majestic Theatre, Bankstown. When Coleman…

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International Court United States May Join Geneva, March 5

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Mr. Elihu Root, former Secretary of State for the United States, conferred with M. Briand French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and submitted to him…

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Murder of a Member of Japanese Parliament Stabbed with a Sword (Special to "The Miner") Kobe (Japan), March 6

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Yamanto Senji, one of the members of the Radical party, who was elected to the Diet recently, was murdered last night in a room at the Hotel…

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Alderman of Glebe Council Handed £50 in Envelope Hands Money to the Police Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

The contents of an envelope which was handed to an alderman of the Glebe Council were disclosed after the meeting of the council last night…

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Latest News Issue General Cables Comedian Before Court for Arrears of Alimony London, March 5

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

Henry Weldon, comedian, appeared before the Chancery Court to-day in connection with £420 arrears of alimony, which was fixed in 1926 at £20…

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Raids in the Caucasus on Jewish Settlements Leaders of Raiders Caught by Soviet Secret Police Riga, March 5

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

The Soviet Government announces that the secret, police have captured the ringleaders of the organisation which has repeatedly raided the new…

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In Victoria Case Against E. J. Holloway in the Melbourne Court Protest by Unionists Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Two thousand unionists marched from the Trades Hall to the City Police Court to-day as a protest against the charge laid against E. J…

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Five Dock Murder Assailant's Death Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 1

Frederick Sly, who murdered his wife at Five Dock last week and then attempted to commit suicide, died in the Western Suburbs Hospital last…

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Assault on Laborer £100 Damages Awarded Against a Policeman Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 1

At the Grafton District Court yesterday Robert Fuller a laborer, was awarded £100 damages against Ambrose Goodwin, a police constable, for…

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