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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Investigations Into Victorian Police Force

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Inspector Alexander Duncan, of Scotland Yard, has completed his investigations into the Victorian Police Force…

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Unusual Caller At Police Station

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

An unusual caller walked into the Central Police Station about a week ago and made application for the dole. He was at first refused, but plaintive…

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Unusual Caller At Police Station

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

An unusual caller walked into the Central Police Station about a week ago and made application for the dole. He was at first refused, but plaintive…

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Investigations Into Victorian Police Force

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Inspector Alexander Duncan, of Scotland Yard, has completed his investigations into the Victorian Police Force…

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Const. Loy, Chairman of Police Assn

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

The ballot for the election of officers of the Broken Hill branch of the New South Wales Police Association has been announced. Constable…

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Const. Loy, Chairman of Police Assn

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

The ballot for the election of officers of the Broken Hill branch of the New South Wales Police Association has been announced. Constable…

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Free Calls to Police 'Phone Network In London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

THE number of police telephone boxes in London, by means of which anyone can get into immediate touch with the police, is…

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Speedy Cure Of Disease Defied for 18 Hours Native Wages War on Twenty Police (Special to "The Miner"). Cape Town, January 22

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

JIM Mboya, a native, for 18 hours waged war against 20 police who were attempting to arrest him. Mboya, clad only in a leopard skin…

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Speedy Cure Of Disease Defied for 18 Hours Native Wages War on Twenty Police (Special to "The Miner"). Cape Town, January 22

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

JIM Mboya, a native, for 18 hours waged war against 20 police who were attempting to arrest him. Mboya, clad only in a leopard skin…

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Barrier Miner Tuesday, January 26, 1937. the Old and the New in Gaol Systems

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 2

LIKE every other branch of law administration, the prison system has undergone changes until it has reached a stage where it is difficult…

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Dog Ownership Disputed; Man Fined In Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 1

ABOUT this dog. I positively refuse to register it, so you had better instruct something to be done about it," stated a defendant before…

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Mystery Provided For Magistrate Assault Case Dismissed Wife v. HUSBAND

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 6

STATING that he did not know what took place, and did not know what to make of the case, Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., dismissed a charge of having assaulted his wife that was preferred against a man in…

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Jockey Before Court His Wife Alleges Assault SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 6

Alleged quarrels between "Darby" Munro and his wife, Mrs. Iris Munro, were described in the Central Summons Court to-day. Mrs. Munro said…

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Police Search for Man

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 6

MELBOURNE., Tuesday.—Armed police are searching the bush around Warragul, for a man who shot Mrs. John Reynolds, a young married…

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New Police Chief Reforms In Victoria SALARY £1250 MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 5

THE State Cabinet last night appointed Chief Inspector Alick Duncan, of Scotland Yard, as Chief…

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Refusal to Give Information Bankruptcy Court Stir

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 2

"MY reason for refusing to answer questions or produce any documents is that at the present time legal proceedings are pending in Adelaide between my company (Campbell and Sutton's) and the Official Receiver," stated Herbert Arthur Johns in the…

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Police Surprise Wanted Man Loaded Gun in Humpy Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 6

SURPRISED in his humpy and dazzled by the glare from an electric torch, an armed fugitive for whom the police and volunteers had…

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Bank Clerk on Trial for Murder

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), January 30. —Oswald Cameron Cowie (17), bank clerk, was committed for trial at Invercargill on a charge of the murder…

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Bank Clerk on Trial for Murder

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 7

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), January 30. —Oswald Cameron Cowie (17), bank clerk, was committed for trial at Invercargill on a charge of the murder…

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Sydney Harbor Mystery Murder Alleged Against Man SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 7

Detectives investigating the death of Miss Grace Maude Eves (40), whose body was found at midnight on January 20 in the harbor at Manly,…

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