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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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Shooting Case at Mildura Attempted Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 4

MILDURA, Tuesday.—Following a shooting affray on (Saturday night, when Gordon Sands, aged 20, laborer, was shot in the arm and near the…

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Fire at Forbes; Police Detain Man

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 2

FORBES, Wednesday.—The police have detained a man in connection with a fire which occurred at Gaha's drapery and mercery store last…

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Robbed the Altar Two Men Captured By Police SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

Two men who wero in the act of robbing an altar in St. Mary's Cathcdral were arrested by police early this morning after the cathedral hod. been…

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Police Movements

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

Constable Kelly arrived this morning on transfer from Bathurst. He is replacing Constable Clondenning, who has gone to Bathurst…

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Robbery at Cathedral; Two Men Charged

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.— At the Central Court Lawrence Peter Brandt (21), laborer, and Jacob Bulman Feldt (32); miner, were charged…

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Murder Charge Follows Man's Death

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Following the death in the St. George District Hospital of Charles Lawrence, who was injured a fortnight ago at Carrinbah…

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Man for Trial for Murder

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday.—At the Rockhampton Police Court yesterday Charles Papworth Leet was committed for trial for the alleged…

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Europeans in India Mass Murder Called For (Special to "The Miner.") CALCUTTA, January 24

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

Leaflets calling for the mass murder of European men, women and children by the Republican Army were produced at the trial of two Bengalis…

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Blue Shirt General Protection Of Court (Special to "The Miner") DUBLIN, January 24

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 3

The Attorney-General of the Irish Free State (Mr. M'Guire) has applied to the High Court to remove with costs the prohibitory order made on…

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George Trott Arrested Returned To Home For Food Remanded in Court (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.) ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

After having lived on blackberries for four days in one of the wildest and most inaccessible fastnesses in the Adelaide hills George Harold…

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Court Shuts and Others

Western Grazier · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 2

Inter[?]s to lighter voin that often [?] to make the Police Courts, models of [?] more human. A.W.[?] defendant [?] in the…

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Court Case Adjourned

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 3

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., the cases in which Mat Corich (34) and John Patrick Matthews (22) pleaded…

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Grazier Shot Dead Brother Arrested For Murder

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Councillor Henry George Vinecombe, a well-known grazier, was shot dead about four miles from Talbot. It appears…

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Theft From Shed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 3

Seddon Risk Kimban, of 689 Blende-street, has reported to the police that between 7.40 p.m. and 8.40 p.m. yesterday a shed at the rear of his…

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Assault Cases Adjourned

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 2

The cases in which Mat Corich (34) and John Patrick Matthews (22) were charged with having on September 4 assaulted Edward Hennessey…

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Stabbing Case Salesman Charged (Reprinted From Yesterdsy's Latest Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Central Court to-day William Howard Holden (49), salesman, was charged with having maliciously wounded…

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MISSING U.S.A. BANKER Murder Is View Of Police (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.) St. Paul (U.s.a.), Jan. 29

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

The police now believe that Edward Bremer, aged 36 years, a wealthy banker, who was kidnapped on January 18, has been murdered…

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Pastoralists Want More Patrols Sheep Stealing In District

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 1

Reports of cases of sheep stealing and cattle stealing which have been received by the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling have led that…

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Attempted Burglary Obsessed by Gang Films (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, January 30

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

Under the name of Max Smith, a 17-year-old Australian, Seymour Sydney M'Dermott pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to-day to a charge of…

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May Get 30 YEARS Briton Accused of Murder

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 5

Thirty years' solitary confinement in the "Mary Islands," Mexico's lone penal settlement, 600 miles off the Pacific coast, is the prospect which…

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