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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Food Shortage at Darwin Gaol Prisoners May Be Rationed Trouble Is Feared Darwin

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 3

FOOD supplies are running short because of the strike of casual laborers in the bond store. Unless steps are taken by the bond store to-day or to-morrow at the earliest more than 70 prisoners in Fanny…

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Duck Shots in Trouble at Week-end Police Seize Many Sporting Guns

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 1

SEIZING their guns, police during the week end took the names of about 12 persons who were allegedly hunting ducks during the close…

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Around the Shows "The Murder Man" for Ozone

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 February 1937 · page 4

Spencer Tracy, always a powerful figure on tho screen, is at his best in. "The Murder Man," which will be shown at the Ozone Theatre to-night…

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Alleged Theft of Hat

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 3

At the request of the police, Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., remanded a man until Monday in the Police Court to-day, when he was charged with…

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PAID £200 for Bathing Suit Lady Owen Shows It In Court

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 4

LADY(EDMEE) OWEN, widow of Sir Theodore Owen, produced is the London Bankruptcy Court recently a bathing costume for which…

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Man Ordered Gaol and Flogging

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Alwin Keys (25). of Oakleigh, laborer, was sent to prison for three years and ordered a flogging of 20 strokes of…

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Man Ordered Gaol and Flogging

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Alwin Keys (25). of Oakleigh, laborer, was sent to prison for three years and ordered a flogging of 20 strokes of…

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6 Months' Gaol For Hat Theft

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 3

"IT is a great pity for the Court to have to imprison a man of your age," said Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when he…

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Bought Pea Rifle When Refused Drink Young Man in Court Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 4

REFUSED a drink which he had ordered and for which he had been unable to pay, Claude Bromley (32), laborer, allegedly left the hotel…

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Boy 14 On Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3

HOBART, Tuesday.—A boy of 14 was charged in the Children's Court with having attempted to murder Thomas Sonners (57), of Hamilton…

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Bandits Take £10,000 Big Mail Theft In France PARIS, [?]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

ARMED bandits stopped a mail van shortly after it had left the Aixen-Provence Post Office, one taking the place of the driver. The van was…

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Killed Man Who Talked With Spirits Murder Case Allegations Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 4

IN the Police Court, Allan J. S. Garvey (29), laborer, was committed for trial for the alleged murder of Harry Brown in a shed at…

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GIRL 22 to Preside Over Court Darwin

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 4

MISS Eileen O'Neil, a pretty 22-year-old brunette, will be the first woman to preside over sittings of the Commonwealth Supreme Court in…

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Native Chief May Sit With Court Murder Trial at Wyndham Perth

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 1

THE possibility of a head native tribesman sharing the Bench with a special magistrate is envisaged in the sitting of the Court of…

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Allegations of Assault S.M. Dismisses Case Against Priest SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 1

In the Central Summons Court to-day an information against Father Michael Ryan, Parish priest of St. Peter's Church Surry Hills, was…

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6 Perish In Launch Wreck Parties Searching for Bodies Amazing Heroism by Police and Civilians Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 1

PARTIES of police and civilians are scouring the coast between the Heads and Narrabeen for the bodies of the five missing men who were the victims of yesterday's tragic launch wreck in Tumbeldown…

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Govt. Proposals Rejected Police Sergeant Remembers; Congratulates Bradman Mr. Lyons Says Vote Not Against His Government Many Members Concerned Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 3

ALTHOUGH counting of referendum votes was resumed to-day it is unlikely that the outstanding votes will materially alter the position. While the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) explains that the vote…

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Quarrel Ends In Court Man to Pay £23/ll/FOR Assault Trouble Follows Game of Cards at Club

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 1

BELIEVING the evidence of the complainant that he was hit and kicked by the defendant, Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day convicted a man of having unlawfully assaulted another man in the…

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Police Driver Shot Dead[?]n Bedroom

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday. — Constable Clark, a Police Department car driver attached to the Campsie Police Station, was found dead from a, bullet…

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Theft From Aerodrome

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 3

On Sunday afternoon a Winchester focusing lamp was reported stolen from the hangar at the aerodrome, lt was the property of Mr. Thomas…

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