Argument Over Wife Man Charged With Murder SYDNEY
A REVOLVER had exploded when Ernest Hough (44), dairy farmer, had gone to the assistance of his sister, said…
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Courts & crime, 1939
596 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 30
Young Man Remanded in Police Court
Bail in self of £20, with sureties, was allowed a 21-year-old man when he appeared in the Police Court today before Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—As a sequel to the finding of the body of a man at the foot of an embankment on Range-road, near Sarina, on Friday…
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JERUSALEM, January 2.—The Arabs who ambushed a British police party returning from Haifa and killed District Police Superintendent G…
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Police believe that the two terrific explosions which wrecke[?] the large freezing works of Thomas Borthwick and Sons early on Saturday were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Betting in Hotel Two Men Fined £20 In Court
BETTING by two men in a room at the Gasworks Hotel Railway Town, on Saturday afternoon cost them £20 each in…
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NEW YORK, January 3.—Antique jewellery valued at 100,000 dollars (£A25,000) was stolen in a daring robbery on New Year's Day from the…
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SACRAMENTO (Calif.), Jan. 3. TOM Mooney, who has been imprisoned for 22 years following his conviction in 1916 for the…
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LONDON, January 3.—As part of a campaign to reduce the toll of life and limb in road accidents, police motor patrols…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"France's Power Invincible" Sydney Cliff Tragedy Story Told to Police Sydney
POLICE have obtained a statement from the young woman who is said to have been in the car when…
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Accused was asked whether he had ever discussed the matter with a man named Gerloff, who was the manager of the firm for which he worked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unusual Plea in Court Greyhound "Sting" In Drink MELBOURNE
SUGGESTIONS that "sting" for a racing greyhound had been put in a drink and accounted for the condition of William Edward Harrison…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stolen Car Is Recovered Police Fire Shots At Two Men SYDNEY
SEVERAL shots were fired by the Liverpool police last night at two men who abandoned a stolen car and escaped in the darkness by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Briton And Wife ToBe Tried by Military Court (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, January 4
Mr. Ernest Golding and his wife are to be tried before a rebel military court, say reports from1 Spain. They will be charged with having wilfully…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Handcuffed Man Escapes From Police SYDNEY
A message from Condobolin states that the police have been scouring the country between there and West Wyalong for a handcuffed man who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Neon Sign Disturbs Injunction By Court SYDNEY
Mr. Justice Boyce, who last night inspected a large neon sign at King's Cross, today in the Equity Court said he was satisfied it seriously affected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coat Stolen at Theatre Two Convicted In Police Court ADELAIDE
HOW a woman's coat was stolen while she was watching a picture show at St. Peters and was subsequently "dumped" in a vacant…
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WASHINGTON, January 6.—President Roosevelt today appointed Professor Felix Frankfurter, a supporter of the New Deal, to the Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Active In Adelaide Large Hoard of Stolen Goods Adelaide
FOLLOWING the arrest of several interstate and local r persons in recent weeks, the police are confident of clearing up most of the thefts that have occurred in the metropolitan area in the last five or six months…
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THE hearing was continued yesterday before Judge Drake-Brockman of the inquiry in connection with the industrial claims of the Miners'…
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