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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Cruelty to a Dog Man Gets a Month's Gaol Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

Cecil Davis, a wardsman at the City Refuge, was proceeded against in the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having, cruelly ill-treated a…

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Idle and Disorderly Charge Against Young Man Ordered Three Months' Gaol

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 3

Percival George Clarke (26), described as a laborer, appeared on remand before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, D.S.M., in the Police Court to-day on…

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Italian Is Refused a Pistol Licence Appeal to Magistrate Is Also Unsuccessful

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

In the Police Court to-day, before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, D.S.M., John Economidis appealed against the refusal of the officer in charge of police…

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Traffic Prosecutions Cases in Court To-day

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

In the Police Court to-day, before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, D.S.M., the following breaches of the Motor Traffic Regulations were disposed of…

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Aged Man's Death Another Man Arrested on Charge of Murder Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

James Blair (60) was brutally assaulted in a lodging-house in Erskine-street. City, late on Saturday after-noon. His jugular vein was almost…

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Fires in Sydney Stadium Police Are Inquiring Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

Two separate outbreaks of fire, one in the eastern end and the other in the western end, were discovered at the Sydney Stadium shortly before…

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Art Model to Appear in a Murder Play Other Actors Disgusted (Special to "The Miner.") London, January 20

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

Bisgust has been expressed by many theatre owners, managers, and actors at the announcement that an agency has made a contract with…

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Italian Goat of Arms Given to Consul by Police the Innisfail Incident Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

A message from Innisfail says that the Italian coat of arms which was puiled down from the vice-consulate on Christmas Eve has been handed…

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Police Seize Lot of Liquor at House in Grystal-street Raid on Saturday Night

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

In furtherance of the activity of the police in their efforts to stamp out illegal trade in liquor in the city, a raid was made on a house in…

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Men Threaten a Boy with Automatic Revolver Will Appear Before Court Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

Alleged to have threatened a boy with an automatic revolver at a bankstown sideshow on Saturday, two young men were charged with vagrancy and…

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Liquor Act Prosecutions Harge Against Licensee Amended by the Police Names of Boarders Not Entered in Register Warning to Licensees About Serving Boarders

Barrier Miner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

Before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, D.S.M., in the Police Court to-day, Henry Archibald Robertson was charged with having on December 20 failed…

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Woman Shoots Husband French Court Acquits on Murder Charge Paris, January 19

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

Madame Grappe has been acquitted on a charge of murder, although she admitted that she fatally shot her husband…

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Three Trucks Derailed by Swag of Sundowner Fixed in Police Court Rockhampton

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 4

Three wagons of a south-bound train were derailed at Port Curtis Junction on Saturday afternoon in unusual circumstances…

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Accountant's Suicide Theft of Apia Storekeeper Preyed on His Mind Auckland (N.Z.), January 22

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

A storekeeper in the Samoan Reparation Office at Apia, who admitted the theft of £20 worth of goods, was sentenced to nine months'…

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Sign on After Hours Sydney Police Action Against Any Overcharging Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Police action will be taken to prevent restaurants and cabarets from levying an impost on liquor ordered before 6 o'clock for consumption after…

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Young Woman Shot Police Have Detained Man on Charge of Vagrancy Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

Mona Ryan (22) was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday suffering from a bullet wound in the left side. Her condition is critical, and it is…

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Alleged Thief Captured by Three Sydney Women Handed Over to Police Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

Three young women captured and handed over to the police a despicable thief yesterday afternoon. On return ing to her home at Bellevue Hill after…

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Illegal Sale of Liquor Hidden Whisky Confiscated by Police at Tarcoola Found in a Shaft Port Augusta

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 4

At the Port Augusta Police Court, George William Parr was charged, before Messrs. S. W. C. Young and W. A. B. Litchfield with having, on…

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Theft of Cream Butter Factory Worker Before Police Court Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 1

James M'Cullocn, an employee of the Glen Ormiston butter factory was charged with stealing cream valued at £1250. It is stated that for a long…

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Alleged Theft of Car. Two Youths Arrested by Gundagai Police Gundagai

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

Two youths, Louis Bryden and Ray Slater, were remanded to the Yass Police Court to-day on a charge of having stolen a motor car valued at…

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