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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

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Nazi Secret Police in Britain? London, March 30

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 6

Mr. Mander (Lab.) asked the Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) in the House of Commons last night if he knew that Germans living in…

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Warden's Court

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 April 1938 · page 3

An application for the suspension of labor conditions for six months is to be made to the Warden's Court on Monday by Barrier Main Lode Silver…

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Humorous Incide nts At Police Sale

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 April 1938 · page 7

IN true auctioneering style, Detective A. H. Ramsey disposed of every article at the police auction sale held at the Police Station to-day. There was a large attendance of men, with a few women present, and bidding was brisk…

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Murder of Husband Wife Alleged Accessory LONDON, April 1

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 April 1938 · page 7

MRS. Georgina Casserley, aged 36 years has been remanded on a charge of having been an accessory after the fact in connection with the…

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Six Months' Gaol For Aboriginal Unlawfully on Premises Disturbed Woman In Sleep DARWIN

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 April 1938 · page 6

STARTLED from her sleep on Wednesday night a married woman living in Thomas-street, Darwin, found a black hand grasping her. She called her husband and he entered the room in time to see a native bolting…

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Soldier Bandits Gaoled Stole 3 Cars, Robbed Officer, Shot At Police (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, April 1

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 April 1938 · page 3

THE two soldier bandits, Andrew Vanderburg and Reginald Kaye, whose escapades on February 28 caused a sensation, were sentenced to-day. Vanderburg was sent to prison for 10 years, while Kaye, who is…

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Stop Press Gaoled for Assault

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Described by Judge Sheridan as a menace to the community, John Thomas Degnan (35) was sentenced to three…

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Big Raid On "Two-Up" School Police Tell Of Happenings 43 Fined Total of £141 in Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 1

ELEVEN police officers led by Inspector Elliot raided an upstairs room at the rear of the Catholic Club at 11 o'clock last night and arrested 51 men who were taking part in "two-up" on a charge of being found in a common…

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Circuit Court To-morrow 3 Criminal Cases For Hearing

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 3

THREE criminal cases—indecent assault, and two charges of malicious wounding— have been listed for hearing in the Circuit: Court to be…

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Police Raid 7 More Men Fined In Police Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

SEVEN of the remaining eight men who were arrested with 43 others in a police raid on a "two-up" school on Sunday night,…

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Lost Ear in Struggle Man For Trial For Assault SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

When William Maxwell (35), laborer, appeared at the Redfern Court to-day charged with having on March 12 assaulted Charles Garbey…

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Court Sequel To Quarrel Knife Allegedly Used by Man Full Evidence Given In Wounding Charge

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 3

COMPLETE evidence for the prosecution and the defence in the case in which William Hadad is charged with maliciously wounding Richard Boulus was given in the Circuit Court to-day before Mr. Justice…

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Black Charged with Murder Committed For Trial DARWIN

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 4

SPEARS, one of which is more than 12 feet in length, were presented as exhibits in the Darwin Courts today when Johnnie, a huge Myan…

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Foul Murder In Mountains Mother and Daughter Are Victims San Francisco, April 4

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 4

WESTERN America has been shocked again by another, crime discovery. In lonely mountainous country in Texas a…

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Quarrel at Home Man Charged With Murder SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 6

ERIC Alexander Smith (20), sheet metal worker, appeared in the Central Criminal Court tooday on a charge of having murdered Albert…

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Razor Slashing Alleged Italian Charged with Wounding

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

AFRACAS outside the Stadium on the night of Saturday, March 19, when a foreigner is alleged to have slashed two men with a razor, had its sequel in the Circuit Court to-day when Carmelo Caruso, an Italian, was…

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Insanity Plea Made In Murder Case LONDON, April 6

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

QUILTY, but insane, was the verdict demanded by counsel for John Stanley Phillips, aged 21 years, a theological student,…

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Prints on Bottle Man For Trial For Murder SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 6

TH wreckage of a room in a house at Newtown was described by a police witness at the Coroner's Court to-day when police inquiries into the…

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Stop Press Alleged Attempted Murder

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 1

GUYRA.—A charge of attempted murder has been preferred against a man who went to the police station last night…

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Six Months' Gaol For foreigner Malicious Wounding Judge Issues Warning

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 4

"I TRUST that this will be a warning to everyone in the community to see that they do not carry dangerous…

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