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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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6 Months' Gaol for Clerk

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 29 June 1937 · page 3

IMPRISONMENT for six months with hard labor was imposed on John Henry Clarkson (34), a clerk, when he appeared in the Police Court…

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Sales Manager Gaoled for Theft Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 30 June 1937 · page 4

Edward Cohen, sales manager for the Egg Marketing Board, who pleaded guilty yesterday to the theft of £711, the property of the board,…

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Prospector's Death Man For Trial For Murder MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 8

AFINDING that Reginald James Kilpatrick, 21year-old laborer, had murdered John Woods (56),…

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Unlicensed Pistol.. Man Fined £10 In Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 8

A LOC.[?] cafe proprietor appeared in the Police Court yesterday afternoon on a charge of having an unlicensed pistol in his possession…

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Man Charged with Assault Doctor Describes Facial Injuries

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 1

MEDICAL evidence of extensive facial injuries received by Thomas Brenda Keayne was given in the Police Court to-day, in the case in…

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Saw Her Baby and Died Happy Gaol Drama

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 4

Two prison dramas—one about a woman prisoner's happiness because she saw her new-born baby before she died, the other…

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Police Charge Fails Man Not Aggressor In Fight

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 July 1937 · page 1

AFTER hearing evidence against Thomas Albert BoHen who appeared in the Police Court to-day on a charge of offensive behaviour, the…

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Sued for £100 by Caretaker Mahomet Allum In Court ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 July 1937 · page 6

DENIALS that he had made any arrangements with Goolan Rasool, of Gilbert-street, Adelaide, caretaker, to look after his business while he…

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Men Fined for Assault Took Law Into Own Hands

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 July 1937 · page 6

STATING that the two defendants— William Gribble and Arthur Bourne—were not entitled to take the law into their own hands and give…

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Smuggled Chinese Police Trace Car Driver Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 July 1937 · page 6

VICTORIAN detectives have traced the service car driver who was engaged, on Jilly 1 to take 13 Chinese from Geelong to Liverpool (New…

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Royal Court at Edinburgh (Special to "The Miner.") EDINBURGH, July 7

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 5

HOLYROOD Palace regained its ancient splendour to-day when their Majesties, King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth, in the Throne Room…

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Tense Moments in French Court Shooting in Aeroplane Reconstructed (Special to "The Miner.") PARIS, July 6

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 8

IN a dramstic atmosphere for which French courts are noted, the shooting in mid-air of Pierre Lallemant was reconstructed before magistrates to-day. Lallemant was shot by his lover, Mme. Irene Schnieder, a…

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Alleged Assault Case Adjourned

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 3

The case in which George Alexander Wallace is charged with unlawful assault on Thomas Brenda Keayne was further adjourned until Friday,…

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Police Chief Saves Hotel

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 1

HAD it not been for a decision of Supt. Chinner, superintendent of police in the Western Division, and Constable Shelley,…

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Bank Mistake in Account Lottery Winner In Court SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 6

WINNER of the first prize of £5000 in the State Lottery several years ago, and entitled to £6000 from his father's estate on the death of his…

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Miner's Hopes Realised Court Favored "Hard Luck" Case; £1000 Lump Sum

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 3

THE dreams and hopes of a former, Broken Hill mine worker, who had been certified as suffering from tuberculosis, have st last been realised, but only after nine years of struggling, during which he…

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Court Stewart Lodge

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 July 1937 · page 7

The quarterly meeting of the A.O.F. Court Stewart Lodge was presided over by P.C.R. Bro. T. E. L. Virgo. Sick visitors reported having visited…

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Police Learn to Fight Poison Gas

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 July 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Instruction on fighting poison gas has been given to 50 police who will form the nucleus of a force which will gradually be…

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Injured by Car; Motorist Charged

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Thomas Morrow (45) was shockingly injured when knocked down by a motor car at Edgecliff late last night. He was…

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Local Business Men at Variance Gross Actions Made for Alleged Assault

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 July 1937 · page 6

QROSS actions for assault between two local business men were started and adjourned by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. The case was adjourned because another matter had been set cown for hearing this afternoon…

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