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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
841 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 43
Not accepting a youth's explanation for being found on premises without permission, the magistrate (Mr. R. Donaldson in the Police Court to-day found him guilty and sentenced him to two months…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Keith Dihm (22), taxi driver, was the victim of a vicious razor slashing yesterday. He informed the police that three men and two women hailed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R[?]us Theodore Nay[?]or, of Centennial Park, was fined £5 at the Paddington Court for having been in possession of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The coroner found that the Rev. Laceby Cecil, was murdered by a person or persons unknown. It will be recalled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →School children on holidays who have committed numerous thefts have been engaging the attention of police and court officials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further particulars of the murder of Miss Nancy Day show that the [?] was a former sweetheart of William Kennedy, whose body was found a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Taking advantage of the law which permits minors to institute proceedings in court, Rose Hilda Williams, VE., of Wellington-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Evidence about weals on the back of a ten-year-old schoolboy was given at Oxford, England, when Lewis Jennings, a schoolmaster, of Old Marston, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saying that he was unable that two young men intended, to the car of his property, the ma[?] Police Court to-day discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BROKEN Hill's excess water charges have long been a sore point with all who have been called on to pay the 2/6 for every extra 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Saturday.— An emotional scene, such as is seldom witnessed in Sydney courts, occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Saturday.— An emotional scene, such as is seldom witnessed in Sydney courts, occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, January 26.—A jury at Decatur, Alabama, found Heywood Patterson, a negro, guilty of criminal assault on two white women and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—In the City Court Herbert Nelson Lane (30), laborer, of Collingwood, was remanded until February 3 on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inspector T. Elliott, who arrived by car last night to take charge of the Broken Hill police district, has had an early initiation into some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prosecutions against her husband were taken by Mrs. Mary Malvina Colley in the Police Court to-day before Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M. After (lengthy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A series of bank robberies by young bandits here culminated in a most cold-blooded murder and two suicides when police closed upon the last remaining members of the gang. The case was marked by a man-hunt and the final captures…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Former Detective John Ellis Findlay (40), now described as a clerk, appeared in the Central Court on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"He had the bad luck to strike the wrong place," said Sergeant Carlon in the Police Court this morning when a man was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arising out of an accident on the Stephens Creek road on Saturday night when a lorry and a car collided, resulting in four people…
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