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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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Police Robot Methods Tracking Suspected Cars

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 2

The idea of a "national Scotiand Yard" will be brought a step, nearer realisation by a rooot system of simultaneious telegraphic communication…

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Police Probe Two Deaths Man And Boy Die SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 4

Two mysterious deaths are being Investigated by the police. One was that of a boy, David Carlisle Anderson, aged nine, who…

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"You Can't Bite Policemen" Petite Woman In London Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 2

Pretty, dainty, petite... one sought for the inevitable word to describe Martha. A charming little squirrel, all in…

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Ex-Superintendent Piggott Tells How Broken Branch Solved Crime Attempt to Murder Orchardist

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 5

Partly broken and with a fragment of bark torn from its surface, a gum tree branch on the margin of an orchard supplied the first clue to the motive for a robbery and the attempted murder of Ernest Edmiston Hadfield, an…

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Ex-Superintendent Piggott Tells How Broken Branch Solved Crime Attempt to Murder Orchardist

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 5

Partly broken and with a fragment of bark torn from its surface, a gum tree branch on the margin of an orchard supplied the first clue to the motive for a robbery and the attempted murder of Ernest Edmiston Hadfield, an…

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Severed Head Mystery Solved by Police

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The mystery of the severed head found by three children on a tip at South Richmond is no longer a mystery. The…

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Ambition Not Realised Police Detain Boy Cyclist

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 1

A 13½-year-old boy's ambition to cycle to Adelaide will not be realised, the lad now being in chnrge of the Mannahill police perming his…

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Built Without Permit Woman Fined £5 In Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 1

In the police Court this morning before Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M.; a woman was charged with causing work to be done without permission…

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After Hours Drinking Licensee And Two Men In Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 2

Although the charge was found proved against him, no conviction was recorded by Mr. R, Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when…

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Magistrate Wanted. Salary Of £560 Offered ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 3

AU interested in the welfare of child. delinquents are awaiting the result of the Government's call for applications for the position of…

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Cheque Case Sequel High Court Allows Appeal SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 3

The High Court unanimously allowed the appeal of the Savings Bank of South Australia from a judgment of the South Australian Full Court…

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Railway Unions Before Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday,—When representatives of the Australian Railways Union and the Australian Tramway Employees' Association came before…

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Old Murder Recalled Suspect Is Missing Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

The amazing story of an alleged murder confession and the escape of the man who made it from an…

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£20,000 Gold Theft Three Men Sent For Trial One Witness Hostile

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 1

The three men who have been charged with the theft of £20,000 in sovereigns, dollars and [?]old bars from the strongrooms of the Croydon…

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Never Heard of God; Girl's Court Story

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 4

COONAMBLE, Tuesday.—At the Quarter Sessions when Alfred Henry James Boden was charged with having committed an indecent assault…

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Police Raids in Dublin Many Leaders Arrested Search Made for Arms (Special to "The" Miner") DUBLIN, March 26

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 1

Police raids,on the homes of prominent Republicans and the arrest of many leaders have caused a sensation. in…

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Civil Court Jurors

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 6

No criminel cases have been set down for hearing in the Circuit Court to be opened at the Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon at 2' o'clock…

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Farmer's Story To Court When Sued For Divorce

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY Wednesday.— Nearly every calamity that can befall the man on the land had prevented him front sending much money to his…

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Supreme Court On April 2 Two Civil Cases

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 4

There are two civil cases for the Supreme Court over which Mr. Justice Davidson will" preside on April 2. Proceedings will commence at [?]…

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Theft of Jewellery Near Nowra

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 March 1935 · page 13

SYDNEY, Saturday.—During the absence of Franz Koll and his wife from their farmhouse near Nowra yesterday, jewellery valued at over…

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