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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
652 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 22 of 33
THE Commonwealth Government will not intervene in the engineers' strike in the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory. This was stated today by the Minister for Defence (Mr. Thorby) after he had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SEVERAL cyclists were each fined 40/-, with 5/6 costs, by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court today for failing to keep to the left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following spontaneous, raids on two hotels by police officers on Saturday night it is expected that 30 men will appear before the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Central Court today Arthur Stickings or Peter Fisher (31), seaman, was remanded till August 29 on a charge of having at Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHARGED with having stolen £1.10 from the house of Glorio Olsen at 422 Beryl-street between August 6 and 15, a young man and woman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"I HOPE this will teach the defendant to behave himself when he is in the streets at night, especially when people are passing by," declared Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day in fining William George Jackson 50/-, with 8/- costs, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thousands of people listening in to a broadcast of a Police Memorial service in Central Park were startled to hear shots and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GEORGE Brady (47), laborer, who was convicted at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of having maliciously wounded his wife, Linda…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), August 18. —An admission that she had set fire to the Waipiro Bay Hotel while a woman she did not like was inside…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE story of how a young man and a woman had allegedly stolen two rolls of bank notes-to the value of £110-from a trunk under the bed of the girl's aunt in a house in Beryl-street, was told in the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CAR OWNERS who leave their ignition keys in vehicles are liable to prosecution, police officers pointed out today. There have been several…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—A young man, who had been arrested for indecent language, was having his fingerprints taken at the Auburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged with having on August 2 assaulted James Davenport, occasioning him grievous bodily harm, Hartley James Clarke (32) was remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.— A suggestion that technical irregularities occurred in the ballot for the Gordon seat at the last State election was made by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Friday.—A sentence of five years' imprisonment was imposed on Cecil. Robert Trotman Foote (38), a bank clerk, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An intensive police search, under Detective-Seageant Nye, has failed to reveal the whereabouts of Mrs. Florence Evelyn Lusted, who has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAM Thomas Gash (36), road contractor, appeared at the Central Criminal Court today on a charge of having murdered his wife. Jane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EVIDENCE that Constable Frank Hepworth (35), married,' of William-street, Camden, had inquired what the housekeeper of an aged Eden Valley grazier was likely to do if a gun were pointed at her, was given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIYDNEY, Monday.—A fractured skull and nose were sustained by Mrs. Georgina Spring (69), of Mudgee, who was travelling alone in a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Heated exchanges occurred between counsel at the Central Police Court when five breaches of the Local Government…
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