Miner Sentenced to Death
PERTH, Friday.—After a retirement of three and a half hours, a jury in the Criminal Court found Josef Jurilj, aged 60 years, a Dalmatian…
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Courts & crime, 1938
652 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 33
The Demsey Murder Continuation Of Crown Case MELBOURNE
The Demsey murder trial entered its fourth day in the Criminal Court to-day. Witnesses told of repairs to a motor, truck and of conversations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Guilty Of The Murder Of His Parents LONDON, February 24
Maurice Ernest Bevis (17) of Portsmouth, was charged at the Winchester Assizes to-day with the murder of his father and mother…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reactions in Case of Assault Italian Govt. To Be Approached MELBOURNE
IT has been learned that the Commonwealth Government has decided to make diplomatic representations to the Italian Government for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Followed the Fleet" Girls In Court ADELAIDE
AS a sequel to the visit of the United States cruiser Louisville two young women, who, according to the police prosecutor (Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fifth Day Of Murder Trial Detectives Recall Interviews Evidence About Lifting Jack Melbourne
INTERVIEWS by detectives, in which the accused denied all knowledge of having had anything to do with the disappearance of Demsey were related in the Criminal Court to-day when the truck murder trial entered on the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Eric Alexander Smith (20), was remanded at the paramatta Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Albert Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woodcarter Fined In Court
A special trip to Eaglehawk paddock on Netley holding by the forest ranger (Constable R. Munro) led to a woodcarter's appearance before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Escapes From Lock-up Wide Police Net WOLLONGONG
Removing the iron bar from the window of his cell, Adrian William Jones (29) escaped from the Wollongong Lockup to-day. He dropped 10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charges of Stealing Move Follows Acquittal For Murder MELBOURNE
AT the City Court, Roy McFarlane (82), baker, of Coronet-street, Newmarket, Matthew Francia O'Keefe (37), laborer, of Wood-street, North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Demsey Murder Trial Four Accused Are Acquitted MELBOURNE
THE Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Book) began his cross-examination of the accused when the Demsey murder trial presumed to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Guilty of Assault Ordered Gaol For 12 Months ADELAIDE
AWAKENED in her bed on on the verandah of a house in Sussex-street, Rosewater, at 1 a.m. on February 23, an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Policemen Shot Two Soldiers Charged LONDON, March 2
TWO soldiers, alleged to have been deserters, were charged at Stratford Police Court with having attempted to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scheme to Centralise Court Buildings
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—It ia reported that a block of buildings to cost £500,000 and to include police headquarters and criminal and police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wireless Assists Police Check To Speed Cranks In U.S. Dramatic Dashes
WHEN the Los Angelas listener tires of the entertainment provided by Aimee Semple McPherson's radio station in her Angelus Temple, a slight twist of the dial produces more thrilling fare…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assaults at Darwin Black Charged In Police Court Great Feat of Tracker Darwin
BRILLIANT tracking by Charlie, a tall lean grey-headed blacktracker attached to the Darwin police, and the able efforts of Constable A. McNab, of Brock's Creek, were features behind the arrest yesterday of a Melville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Travelling Police Station Wide Powers for Constable Police Service in Outback Areas
VESTED with the same powers as a C.P.S., Conotable Back, of the White Cliffs district, has been placed in charge of a police innovation which will virtually be a travelling police station. Under this new scheme the officer will not esly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Travelling Police Station Should Be Boon To Graziers
DEPREDATIONS of vandals in the outback district have been a source of annoyance for years, and although there has been an improvement in recent years this should be made more evident by the introduction of a mobile travelling police Elation which will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Chief of S.A. Women Police Miss Kate Cocks Visiting City
FIRST chief of the first women Police Department in the world and now honorary superintendent of the Methodist Women's Welfare Department (S.A.), Miss Kate Cocks, M.B.E., arrived in Broken Hill to-day to give…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Troops Enter Austria Armed Police Cordon Broken In Bitter Street Fights Dr. Schuschnigg's Plebiscite Plans Abandoned (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, March 11
DR. SCHUSCHNIGG, the Austrian Chancellor, has resignad, and the plebiscite which he had ordered for Sunday has been abandoned. German troops are reliably reported to have crossed the frontier to aid the…
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