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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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Poison Found in Porridge Youth On Charge Of Murder SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 7

Following the discovery of poison in the porridge of Cecil Ulricks, of Beach-road, Berry, a youth employed at Ulricks's farm has been charged…

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Poison Found in Porridge Youth On Charge Of Murder SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 1

Following the discovery of poison in the porridge of Cecil Ulricks, of Beach-road, Berry, a youth employed at Ulrichs's farm has been charged…

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The Cop and the Anthem Story Of How Man Escaped Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 5

ON his bench in Madison-square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow…

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The Cop and the Anthem Story Of How Man Escaped Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 5

ON his bench in Madison-square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow…

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Perth Murder Clues Two Witnesses Of Jewels Theft £500 Reward Offered Perth

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 3

Detectives are making intensive inquiries into the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of Edgar Arthur Whitfield (60), caretaker, at Caris…

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Tennant's Creek Shooting Case Renfrey Is Acquitted on Charge of Murder

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

ALICE SPRINGS, Monday. After a dramatic four-day trial in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory at Alice Springs before…

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£50 Reward for Figg Police Search Continues ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 2

It is announced that the Government has decided to offer a reward of £50 for information leading to the arrest of William Arthur Figg (47),…

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Excused From Court Bankrupt's Rush To Interior SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

Many witnesses have been anxious to get away from the prosaic atmosphere of courts when they have been called to give evidence or to undergo…

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3 Stolen Cars On Way To Broken Hill? Police Recover One

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

Three motor car thefts, two in South Australia and one in Queensland, are occupying the attention of local police. Two men have been…

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Man Remanded for Intent to Murder

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.— Charles Saunders (69) was charged at the Redfern Police Court to-day with having feloniously administered poison to…

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Adulterated Fish for Hospital Contractor To Give Explanation Court Action Adjourned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 2

To enable a defendant to give evidence on oath In a case in which he instructed his solicitor to plead guilty, a case was adjourned for a…

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Aborigines on Trial for Murder Alice Springs

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 4

I suppose Kaiumen realised that he was on "the spot," said Judge Wells in the Supreme Court to-day when Numberlin, who is charged with…

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Police Called in Council Meeting Disturbance SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 2

Considerable disorder characterised the meeting of the Bankstown Council last night during which the mayor (Alderman Crogg) sent for the…

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Man's Frauds on Women Sentenced To Four Years' Gaol SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Bernard Dwyer (32), auctioneer and business agent, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on six charges…

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Anthropologist Wanted for Court Case

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday—Although Judge Wells in the Supreme Court at Alice Springs suggested that the services of an anthropologist might be…

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Communist Leader Shot In Clash With Police

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 4

LONDON, February 12.—Serious fighting in the central square of Ottaskring, a suburb of Vienna, marked the anniversary of the…

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Men Attack Police Violent Fight In Adelaide ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 1

Alleged to have been threatening several policemen with an axe, a man was arrested at revolver point in a house in Gren-fell-stret last night…

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Lawfully Shot Bendigo Court Finding Warning by Coroner Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 3

That the shooting of Stanley Mitchell, aged 29, laborer, in a country store at Quambatook in the early morning of January 18 was justified…

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Marriage, Ends Court Case

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 4

PORT PIRIE, Friday. Before Slr. A. J. Edwards, in the Magistrates' Court, a man, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was chsrged…

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Hauptmann to Die Guilty Of Murder Of Ondbergh Baby (Special to " The Miner ") New York, February 13

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 4

Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the 35. year-old German carpenter, waa found guilty late to-day of the murder ot the Lindbergh baby. Immediately be…

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