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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

723 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 15 of 37

Police Chief at S.P. Inquiry Mr. Mackay Tells of Talks with Premier Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 4

THE Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay) was the first witness called when the Starting Price Royal Commission was resumed to-day. The witness told of several interviews with the Premier (Mr. B. S. Stevens) after his…

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McQuillan Guilty Of Assault

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 3

AFTER [?] retirement of three hours 20 minutes, the jury found Phillip Roy McQuillan (39), miner, guilty of assault…

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Five Years' Gaol for ExPoliceman ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 4

PETER Blainey Slaven (52), formerly constable in charge at Prospect, was to-day ordered imprisonment for five years after he had been…

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Struggle for Razor Wounding And Assault Charge Against Miner

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 1

IN a statement from the dock in the Quarter Sessions today before Judge Goyle and a jury of 12, Phillip Roy McQuillan, who faced, charges of maliciously wounding a woman and assaulting her occasioning actual…

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Woman's Fate Unknown Is Condemned For Murder PERTH

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 1

EVELYN Florence Burrows (42), under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, may not know the fate of her appeal to the Court…

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Millie Creek Murder Woman Leaves To Identify Body SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 1

MKS. Ernest Harry Brown left Sydney yesterday for Moree to formally identify the body of her husband Ernest Harry Brown, who…

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Breaking and Entering Sessions Case Kevin Ford Before Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 1

EVIDENCE that she had seen Kevin George Ford in her bedroom in the early hours of November 30 was given by a…

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"Far Too Much Razor" 12 Months' Gaol For McQuillan

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 6

THERE too mucli of this razor business going on to pass it over," said Judge Coyle in the Quarter Sessions yesterday when…

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Early Arrest Expected Mysterious Murder Of Woolclasser SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 6

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Ernest Harry Brown a Millie. Creek are confident of making an arrest at an carly date…

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District Court Defended Divorce Proceedings

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 3

DESERTION IS ALLEGED IN the Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction of the District Court today Judge Coyle heard a contested action in which Kevin Francis Doyle proceeded against Gertrude Mary Doyle for divorce…

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Cases Adjourned Till Next Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 3

Cases adjourned until the next District Court were:- Anna Emma. Manuel v. Thomas Edwards, claiming £400 damages for…

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Said They Were Police Two Men Charged With Stealing £80 SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 4

ALLEGATIONS that two men had entered a house at Glebe, represented themselves as policemen engaged in suppressing S.P. betting,…

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District Court Actions

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 3

JUDGE COYLE presided over sittings of the District Court held at the Courthouse to-day. Judgment for the full amount…

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City Raids Fail Murder Suspect Sought SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 6

IN their search for a man whom they, are anxious to interview concerning the murder of Ernest Harry…

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Two Millie Creek Murder

Western Grazier · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 2

Police believe they know the murderer of Ernest Harry Brown, the 53 year old woolool[?]or, of Marrinkville, whose body was found under a bridge…

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Getting "Easy Money" 4 Years' Gaol For Conspirator SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 3

GUY Paul McDonald, who was convicted of conspiracy to cheat and defraud, was at the Quarter Sessions sentenced, to four years and six…

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Getting "Easy Money" 4 Years' Gaol For Conspirator SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 3

GUY Paul McDonald, who was convicted of conspiracy to cheat and defraud, was at the Quarter Sessions sentenced to four years and six…

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Case Settled Out of Court

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 6

The District Court case in which Louis Cutjac proceeded against George M. Williams claiming £12 for money loaned, was settled privately…

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Case Settled Out of Court

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 6

The District Court case in which Louis Cutjac proceeded against George M. Williams claining £12 for money loaned, was settled privately…

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Police Net Closing On Wanted Man PENRITH

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 1

THE police net is closing in on the lower Blue Mountains, where they believe the man for whom they are searching in connection with the…

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