Police and Civilians Search for Woman
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A message from Lismore states that police, civilians and blacktrackers are still searching for Mrs. Evelyn Roberts…
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Courts & crime, 1938
652 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 19 of 33
Police Raids On S.P. Bookmakers
PERTH, Wednesday.— Starting price bookmakers are wincing under a police onslaught. Fifteen offenders faced a Perth magistrate, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ship's Steward in Court Woman's Speech "La-De-Da"
A middle-aged London man's claim that he and a wealthy eccentric Scottish woman became husband and wife in the Scottish "irregular" manner in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charges of Cruelty German Police Inquiry (Special to "The Miner.") VIENNA, July 6
INVESTIGATIONS are proceeding into charges of cruelty against former police officers and Heimwehr men, who allegedly ill-treatcd Nazis…
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SYDNEY, Thursday,—There were dramatic developments in the spiracy case at the Central Police Court, to-day when, following the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Commit Suicide In New York New York, July 6
Stern disciplinary measures that have been introduced in the New York city police force are partily blamed for numerous cases of suicide…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queen Not at Court Mother's Death Responsible LONDON, July 7
OWING to the recent death of the Countess of Strathmore, mother of the Queen, the King held the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Consistent Opposition Chief Secretary On Police Chief SYDNEY
THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Gollan), in a statement in the Legislative Assembly, said it was a gross perversion of truth to infer that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barber Fined £5 in Court Equipment Was Not Clean
FOR failing to maintain the equip ment in his barber's shop in a thoroughly clean condition. William Edward Stebbing, the proprietor of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gang Assault On Motoring Ace Youth Leader In Colurt Duel Was Refused (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, July 10
THE Berlin correspondant of the "News Chronicle" says that the story of the assault on Manfred Von Braushitsch, the motoring ace and a relative of the German Commander in Chief by the Youth leader, Baldur Von…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Underworld Feud Sixth Death at Cannes Police and Gang in Battle (Special to "The Miner".) PARIS, July 10
AN underworld feud, which started in the Dead Rat Cafe, Montmartre, on Christmas Day, 1934 and has resulted in three murders, was the cause of three more deaths near Cannes in the south of France last-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl On Murder Charge Allegedly Shot Her Father Crowds Fight to Enter Court Perth
WHEN the trial of Eunice Mary Hornby (18), on a charge of having killed her father, began in the Supreme Court to-day, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. H. S. Good) admitted that Hornby had threatened to kill his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Monash Murder Trial Grown Tells of Finding of Body of Girl Alleged Statement By Accused ADELAIDE
THE trial of James Mark Watherston (27), laborer, of Monash, who was committed for trial by the Berri Coroner on June 10 on a charge of having on June 3 murdered Elizabeth Mary Nielson, aged 12, commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Murder of Father 18-Year-Old Girl Acquitted Amazing Story Told in Court Perth
A STATEMENT alleged to have been made by Eunice Mary Hornby (18), who is charged with having murdered her father, was one of the features of her trial which was continued in the Supreme Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Confessed to Case of Kidnapping Story To Police New York, July 13
THE State police at Tacoma, Washington, after having announced that Frank Olson (32), a farm laborer, had confessed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Is Horrible Case" Counsel's Plea In Monash Murder Trial Mostly Women in Public Gallery Adelaide
THE gallery of the Criminal Court was again crowded, mostly with women, when the trial of James Mark Watherston (27), laborer of Monash, on a charge of having murdered Elizabeth Mary Nielson (12),…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft Of Poultry
Alleged systematic pigeon and fowl stealing by three boys has been cleared up by Detectives A. Ramsey and L. Liddy after several weeks'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Remanded on Murder Charge
WOLLONGONG, Friday. — In the Police Court, Louis Wells Luckins (29), was remanded until July 27 on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Intent Alleged SYDNEY
Mrs. Alma Whitehouse (36), a resident of Hurstville, was taken to St. George Hospital last night with a wound in the back of her head which,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentence of Death Monash Murder Case
AFTER a retirement of 56 minutes the Supreme Court jury yesterday found James Mark Watherston guilty of the murder…
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