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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,058 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 21 of 53

Three Interstate Visitors in Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 May 1935 · page 3

Three Interstate visitors appeared in the Police Court to-day on charges of having trespassed on railway property at Broken Hill this morning…

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50 Police at Charlestown

Barrier Miner · Friday 10 May 1935 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—Over 50 police from Newcastle were sent to Charlestown to-day to be in readiness for a threatened demonstration of…

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Big Jewellery Theft

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 7

NARACOORTE, Saturday. — By breaking or cutting a sheet of glass in the front door thieves entered the watchmakers and jeweller's shop of…

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Big Jewellery Theft

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 1

NARACOORTE, Saturday. — By breaking or cutting a sheet of glass in the front door thieves entered the watchmakers and jeweller's shop of…

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Man for Trial for Horse Stealing

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Saturday. — In the Spalding Police Court yesterday, William Henry Faggotter, of Broken Hill, was committed for trial on a charge…

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Alleged Theft of Scrip Accused Remanded For 20th Time Wellington (N.z.), May 9

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 3

Following the refusal of the Full Court to issue a writ of habeas corpus, William Campbell and Madge Munro made their twentieth…

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Alleged Theft of Scrip Accused Remanded For 20th Time Wellington (N.z.), May 9

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 3

Following the refusal of the Full Court to issue a writ of habeas corpus, William Campbell and Madge Munro made their twentieth…

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Waverley Murder Evidence Given At Inquest Man for Trial Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 6

An inquest was opened to-dny concerning the. death of Paul Drasdoff (47), Russian storekeepor, at Waver ley, who was murdered on September…

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Waverley Murder Evidence Given At Inquest Man for Trial Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 6

An inquest was opened to-day concerning the death of Paul Drasdoff (47), Russian storekeeper, at Waverley, who was murdered on September…

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Football on Sunday Police Forbidden To Play LITHGOW

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 6

Lithgow Rugby League supporters are perturbed at a ruling given by the police authorities that members of the force must not take part in…

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Football on Sunday Police Forbidden To Play LITHGOW

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 May 1935 · page 6

Lithgow Rugby League supporters are perturbed at a ruling given by the police authorities that members of the force must not take part in…

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£600 Theft of Whisky Well Planned Scheme

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Timed to the second, a daring robbery at the merchandise section of Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., Bourke-street,…

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Police Escort for Gold

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 3

ALICK SPRINGS, Tuesday.—Bringing back to mind the days when Ballarat and Bendigo were at their zenith, a police escort hurried to…

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Inverloch Murder Inquest Opened To-day MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 1

The inquest was opened to-day into the murder of Ethel Belshaw (12), schoolgirl, of Tarwin Meadows, who was found bound and suffocated with…

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Were Police Brutal? Charges Made By Counsel Holds Up Case Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 3

Allegations of brutal treatment by detectives in Sydney to extract a confession from David M'Donald Brown, tged 20, butcher, who was charged…

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School Girl's Death Murder Of Ethel Belshaw Father's Praise for Accused Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 6

The death of Ethel Belshaw, a 12-year-old schoolgirl of Tarwin Meadows, who was found bound and suffocated…

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Strange Laws of Guernsey Verdicts Debated In Open Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 5

Tragedy that has come to an obscure little farmhouse in Guernsey has been given a strange garment of comedy. in the eyes of the world…

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More Police Supervision in District Police Chief Sees Pastoralists

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 6

"In the nonr future land holders in all parts of the Broken Hill police district will see a lot more of mounted police about their properties' than has…

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What Gaol Was Like in Bad Old Days Privileges for Wealthy Prisoners

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 4

Infamous Newgate prison and its fitting ante-room, the original Old-Bailey, have gone out of existence, but their history strikingly emphasises the march of progress in penal matters…

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Youth Not Involved The Inverloch Murder Emotional Scenes Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 4

A finding of murder by a person or persons unknown was returned by the city coroner (Mr. Grant, P.M yesterday at the inquest on Ethel…

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