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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Two Men on Attempted Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two men will be charged in the City Court on Monday with having wounded Superintendent John O'Connell Brophy…

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Two Men[?]on Attempted Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two men will be charged in the City Court on Monday with having wounded Superintendent John O'Connell Brophy…

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Bringing Police Force Up to Date

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Police Commissioner MacKay has during the past couple of weeks interviewed a number of high officers and some…

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Bringing Police Force Up to Date

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Police Commissioner MacKay has during the past couple of weeks interviewed a number of high officers and some…

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Police Strike Suggested Meeting Decided To Protest Only

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A regulation strike by members of the police force was suggested at a meeting of the Police Officers' Association at which…

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Police Strike Suggested Meeting Decided To Protest Only

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A regulation strike by members of the police force was suggested at a meeting of the Police Officers' Association at which…

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Assault and Insulting Words Charge

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

An adjournment till January 26 was granted by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day in a case in which Elia Raitella…

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Police Chief for Victoria Talk By Cabinet MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

[?]minary consideration will be given by State Cabinet shortly to the appointment o[?] a Chief Commissioner of Police in place of Sir Thomas…

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Firearm Stressed by Accident to Boy Police To Act

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 1

The danger of allowing children to play with firearms was exemplified last week when a 14-year-old…

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Foreigner Arrested Shocking Case Of Murder PEIPING, January 12

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 1

THERE was a dramatic turn to-day in the investigations into the shocking murder of Pamela Werner (17) when the…

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Anonymous Letter Sent To Police Chief ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 4

An anonymous letter to the Police Commissioner led to the appearance in the Adelaide Police Court of Frederick Albert Delgar, contractor,…

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Division of Gaol to Himself Political Offenders In Paris

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 2

M. Charles Maurras, the Royalist leader who is now in the Sante prison for exciting to disorder, appears to be quite content with his lot. His offence being a breach of the Press laws, he is treated as a political offender and…

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New Victorian Police Chief Scotland Yard Man Named MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 3

The appointment p[?] Chief Inspector Alexander D[?], of Scotland Yard, as Police Commissioner of Victoria, will be announced before…

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U.S. Shaken by Murder Lindbergh Case Recalled Big Rew Ard Offered (Special to "The Miner.") WASHINGTON, January 12

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 6

IN a statement on the murder of Charles Mattson (10), President Roosevelt says that the ghastly crime has shaken the…

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Police Seek Hit-Run Motorist Heavy Lorry Hits Two Cars in Blende-street Petrol Drum Provides Valuable Clue

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 1

POLICE believe that inquiries will lead to the identification of an alleged hit-and-run motorist who was concerned in an accident near the intersection of Chloride and Blende streets shortly after 8.30…

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Taxi Drivers Refused Licences by Council Solicitor's Allegations in Police Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 1

ALLEGATIONS that some taxi drivers had been unjustly treated by the City Council by being refused licences for their taxis for the new year were made by Mr. W. C. Beerworth in the Police Court to-day…

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Warden's Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 6

Suspension of the residential conditions of a mining tenement for three months was granted Lena Florence Machul by Mr. R…

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"Not Killed For Trade" Charge Against Grazier Fails Magistrate's Comments

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 3

A PROSECUTION launched by the Municipal Council against a local grazier, in which it was alleged that he had killed sheep for the purpose of trade at a place other than the Abattoirs, failed in the…

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B.I.C. Protest To Melbourne Police

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 1

At the meeting of the Barrier Industrial Council held last night, the following resolution was passed:- "That this meeting of the Barrier…

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No Action by Police Ordered Not to Interfere N.Z. Stay in Strike

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 3

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Jan. 15. THE stay-in strike continues in several New Zealand freezing works. The general manager of…

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