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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Papuan Native Murdered Two Others Sent to Gaol Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 4

At Port Moresby (Papua) two Keari natives were sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the murder of another Koari named Sitoki Evidence…

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Stmnhng with Scissors Man Gets Three Years' Gaol Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 1

Convicted at the Quarter Sessions to-day of having attacked another min with a pair of scissors, Edward Johansen (31). a Dane, was sentenced by…

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Licensing Court Licenses Transferred

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 2

The licence of the Returned Soldiers' Hostel and the billiards licence for the hotel were transferred this morning in the Licensing Court over which Mr. G…

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Taxi Off Route Driver Fined in Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 4

In the Police Court this afternoon before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., Thomas M'Henry pleaded not guilty to a charge of having plied his taxi off the…

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Illicit Still Discovery by Police in Redfern Building Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 4

The Police have discovered a large illicit still in Regent-street, Redfern, Within a few hundred yards of the police station. When the police…

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Three Men Before Court Vessel Still Delayed Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 1

Three numbers of the Finnish wheat freighter Olovsberg were charged in the City Court to-day with refusing to obey orders, and were remanded…

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Victorian Police Chief Opposed to Unionised Force Could Not Be Neutral Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 4

General Blamey Victorian Commissioner of Police addressing a police force gathering said that a Police Union in Victorin like that which…

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Theft of Clothing From Unemployed Camp

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 1

A member of the unemployed camp at the Municipal Council yards called at "The Barrier Miner" office to-day and said that last night some clothing…

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Rising at Chittagong Ringleadebs Sentenced Calcutta. March 1

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

Narrow escapes which hundreds of European men women and children had from being massacred by rebels in Chittagong in April, 1930, were recalled…

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Pouce Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 2

Before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., in the Police Court this norning, Percival George Clarke (29) and Martin Edward Clarke (27), brothers, were each charged…

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Court Costs

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 2

From "Fair Play":— I was defendant in a court case recently and I am puzzled regarding witnesses fees. Is it a fair thing for the plaintiff, a staff man on one of the…

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Soldiers' Hostel Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 3

Mr. Les Radford has been given the contract of ploughing Up the tennis court at the rear of the Returned soldiers' Hostel and remaking it. The…

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Man Gaoled for Theft Committed for Trial on a Second Charge

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 3

Before Mr. G.S. Goldie. S.M. in the Police Court this morning James' Flynn a miner, was charged with having on February 21 been found at night,…

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Alleged Theft of £316 FROM N.S.W. Lottery Clerk for Trial Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

In the Central Police Court to-day Gordon Hector Swain (26) a clerk was committed for trial on a charge of stealing £316 the property of the State lottery…

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Dismissed Apprentices Court Awards £2315 Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

Nine apprentices eight of whom lost their fathers at the war, were yesterday awarded £2315 among them by Judge Armstrong in the District Court. They…

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The Police of Gold Premium 72 Per Cent Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 2

The premium fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the mint from February 22 to 26 inclusive, is 72 per cent…

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Police Court Suspension Is Removed of Car Driver's Licence

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 3

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., John Porvan made application for the removal of the Buspension of his motor driver's licence…

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Court Case Struck Out

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 2

Thomas John Hatch and Richard Brenley did not appear when their flames were called in the Police Court this morning in the case in which…

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Kidnapping Alleged of Elderly Grazier Two Men Before Court Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 4

Evidence regarding the alleged kidnapping of Edward Montgomery Perrott (65), a grazier was given in the Central Police Court to-day by Detective…

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Police Court

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 3

Before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, Charlie Camilleri (84), a miner, was charged with having had nine pieces of timber…

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