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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

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Justice Street Welcomed Earlier Impressions Revised Court Speech

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1933 · page 2

On his first visit to Broken Hill, Mr. Justice K. W. Street, who presided at the sitting to-day of the Supreme Court, was welcomed by…

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Breaking and Entering Young Man Before Court Not Guilty

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1933 · page 1

Kevin George Ford was charged, before Mr. Justice K. W. Street in the Supreme Court this morning, with having on December 28, 1932, broken…

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Restoration of Wage Cuts Addresses To Court In Support Economies Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1933 · page 1

Addressing the Full Arbitration Court support of the unions' application for the restoration of the 10 per cent. wage cut, Mr. H. C…

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Girl's Story Of Assault

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Detectives last night arrested a man on a charge of having criminally assaulted a school girl aged 12 years at…

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Alleged Wife Murder Melbourne Butcher For Trial Police Story Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 4

Arter an inquest yesterday into the death of Grace Weston (31), who was found with her throat cut at her home in First-avenue,…

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Stealing and Receiving Charges Against Man Guilty on One

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 4

Before Mr. Justice K. W. Street in the Supreme Court this afternoon George Frederick Lemon was charged with having on December…

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British Ambassador Warns Soviet White Paper Gives Details of Engineers' Treatment Tactics of Secret Police (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, April 4

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 3

The situation between Brita in and Russia is fraught with the utmost danger, the British Ambassador (Sir Esmond Ovey) told M. Litvinoff before he left Moscow to return to London to report personally to the Government on thc arrest of six British engineers…

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Wounding with Intent Foreigner Charged In Court Found Guilty

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

Samuel Grima was charged in the Supreme Court this morning before Mr. Justice K. W. Street with having on March 12, 1933,…

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Lead Stolen From Mine Prisoners Sentenced This Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

In passing sentence this afternoon in the Supreme Court, on Newton Fergusson and Reginald Ronald Gilbert, who had pleaded guilty to three…

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National Park Murder; Retrial For Craig

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Attorney-General definitely announced today that Eric Roland Craig will be retried for the alleged murder of…

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Street Traffic Control Automatic System In London Replaces Police London, April 3

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 3

What is probably the most elaborate example of automatic traffic control in the world was inaugurated in Trafalgar-square, London,…

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"Sharing in the Loot" Arbitration Court Comment Chief Judge Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 1

"It the people in one State are able to take loot from the people of other States, it is only fair that the employees of the benefiting…

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Claim for Restoration of Wages Cut Union Proposal To Call Metal Evidence the Court's Attitude Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

The announcement by Mr. C. Crofts, union advocate in the wages case before the Full Arbi-t ration Court, that he proposed to…

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Vic. Hotel Murder; Death Sentence

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Convicted of the murder of Winifred Naomi Crooks at the North Grand Hotel on December 29, Patrick Sheedy (29),…

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Man Living in Tunnel Strange Story Told To Police SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 1

The strange e[?]stence of a young man, apparently rendered desperate by unemployment, was revealed by a police search of an incompleted…

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Man Shoots His Wife Then Dies In Police Cell Heart Failure Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 1

"Good God, Roy, I'm glad you have come. I have just shot my poor little wife." This statement was made to Constable R. Spencer…

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An Alleged Assault

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 3

William Fruncis Tebin was charged in the Police Court this morning before Mr. V. H. Wells, D.S.M., with having on March 28 unlawfully…

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Alleged Theft in Adelaide Broken Hill Man The Victim LOST £23 ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 3

Frederick C. G. Arnold and Ethel Mary May, of Sturt-street; [?]ty, were presented before Mr. G. W. Halcombe, S.M., in the Adelaide…

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Man Living in Tunnel Strange Story Told To Police SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 4

The strange e[?]stence of a young man, apparently rendered desperate by unemployment, was revealed by a police search of an incompleted…

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Fined For Theft Of Lemons

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Gosford Police Court yesterday Lionel Lewis Bartlett, orchardist, was convicted on a charge of having stolen…

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