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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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Federal Supreme Court's First Judge

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Canberra history was mada yesterday when Judge Lukin, judge in bankruptcy of the High Court of…

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31,000 Words Spoken in Court Case

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 1

Approximately 31,000 words were typed in the depositions in the case completed in the Warden's Court yesterday concerning a dispute over a…

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Murder in Far North Eight Natives On Trial Constable's Evidence Darwin

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

Evidence of police investigations into the Fitzmaurice River murders was given in the Darwin Police Court when eight aborigines were charged…

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Was Loot Cause of W.A. Riots? Informers Tell Kalgoorlie Police Kalgoorlie

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 1

New light was thrown on the Kalgoorlie upheavals by allegations today that four men prominent in the riots had inspired the rioters with the object of securing the loot. These allegations were made by five Yugoslavs, who…

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Police in Control Position Easier In Kalgoorlie KALGOORLIE

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

Reinforcements have now brought the number of police [?]ere and in Boulder to 250, and the police stations in Kalgoorlie present the appearance…

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New Police Chief Inspe[?] Winter Tak[?] Over Our Weather Pleases Him

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

Inspector Albert Winter, the tallest officer in the New South Wales Police Force—he is 6ft. 4½in.—who has had a wide and varied experience in every…

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Was Death Due to Suicide? Police Theory In Gase Of George Datson Inquiries Continued

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

"Up to the present, as far as we can see there is nothing to make us believe that Datson was murdered or met his death by foul play. "We are of the belief that he committed suicide under the…

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No More Rioting Feared Police Demonstrate at Kalgoorlie Miners Expected to Resume Work (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.) KALGOORLIE

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 4

Armed with a machine gun, hand grenades and service rifles 200 more police arrived in Kalgoorlie to-day. They are patrolling the city and further riots are unlikely…

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Police in Control Kalgoorlie

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 6

Reinforcements have now brought the number of police here and in Boulder to 250, and the police stations in Kalgoorlie present the appearance…

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Local and General Local Court H[?] Returns

Western Grazier · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 2

The following figures [?] by the local Clerk of [?] during the year [?] The figures in…

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Farmer Shot Broker Faces Murder Charge Had Been in Asylum Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 6

Allegations that William Vinecombe had been confined to a hoispital for the insane for some time were made at an inquest at Talbot…

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Death From Misadventure Datson Case Theory Statement by Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

The theory put forward yesterday by [?]tective-Sergennt James, a leading Sydney detective and an expert in poison cases, that George Datson…

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Death From Misadventure Datson Case Theory Statement by Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 11

The theory put forward yesterday by Detective-Sergeant James, a leading Sydney detective and an expert in poison cases, that George Datson…

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Tower Prisoner Involved in Gaol Affray

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 1

An inquiry has been held into an incident on the exercise ground of the Maidstone Prison, in which Baillie-Stewart, the "Officer in the Tower,"…

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Datson Case To-morrow Police Will Ask For Adjournment

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 1

When the inquest into the circumstances connected with the death on January 13 of George Datson (51[?], a watchman on the Junction North…

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Groom Sentenced to Death Murder Of Yorkshire Farmer Gruesome Exhibit

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 2

Sentence of death was passed by Mr. Justice Humphreys at Leeds Assizes, England, on Ernest Brown, aged 35, a groom, for the murder of his employer, Frederick Ellison Morton, aged 28, a cattle factor, whose charred body was found…

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Police Chief Welcomed in Police Court To-day

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 1

Inspector A. Winter, who has taken over the charge of the Broken Hill Police district, was welcomed on his first appearance in the Police Court…

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Trapped in Shaft Man Falls Amid Charged Holes Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 3

Remarkable presence of mind was shown by a laborer when he was trapped in a sewer shaft after having lit the fuses of explosive charges…

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"Attacked Police" Communists Shot Dead BERLIN, February 2

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 2

Following their escape from a police van travelling to Potsdam from Berlin, four well-known Communists were shot dead. They…

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Birds Cause Neighbors to Go to Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Tuesday. — That the comfort of her home had become unbearable and that she and her family had spent months of sleepless nights…

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