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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Fired Rifle In Street; Man To Pay £15/5/ Magistrate Takes Serious View

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 3

TELLING 22-year-old Malcolm Claude Patrick Shepley that it was by a fortunate occurrence that he had not appeared on a more serious charge, Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today imposed fines and costs…

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Criticism Of Police Did Not Warn Accused Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 1

DURING the hearing of the trial of conrad Edgar Gruber (17). who was acquitted of a charge of having murdered his father, Mr…

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Attempted Theft From Church

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While a verger and his son were in the vestry of the Anglican Cathedral at Newcastle yesterday they noticed a man…

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Youth Acquitted of Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— Conrad Edgar Gruber (17) was acquitted and discharged at the Ipswich Circuit Court yesterday on a count of…

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Police Defied; Man Yields To Priest New York, April 3

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8

A desperate gunman, besieged for hours in a crowded apartment house by 70 heavily armed police, was finally induced to surrender by a…

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Picturesque Film Of French Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 6

ONE of the most picturesque and romantic fellows ever to strut across the pages of history. Francois Villon, forms the central…

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Round the Shows "Slate Police" Attracts At Johnson's

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2

Bob Hope and Shirley Ross are costarred in "Thanks for the Memory," which will conclude at Johnson's Theatre tonight. The cast includes…

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Police Stop Boxing Contest

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 8

BRISBANE, Saturday.— Alan Westbury (10.6[?]) defeated Horrie Bennell (10.3) on a, technical, knockout in the 12th and last round at the Brisbane…

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Stop Press Local Men Before Adelaide Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 1

ADELAIDE.— For having received money from a minor for the purpose of betting at Oakbank yesterday, Herbert Aldridge…

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10 Years' Gaol For Aboriginal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 2

DARWIN, Thursday.— Found guilty of manslaughter, an aboriginal boy, Victor, aged 19 years, formerly a police tracker, who was arrested…

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Hut Murder Mystery Search For Cab Passenger MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 6

DETECTIVES investigating the mulder of the unidentified man whose partly clad body was discovered in a chaff bag in a dam at…

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Murder 4t Dubbo Of Two Men Feared SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 3

A MESSAGE from Dubbo states that police and civilians are engaged in an intensive search for the bodies of…

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Fears for Two Men Police Suspect Foul Play SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 6

Grave fears are held for two men who have disappeared between Cubbo and Narromine and who the police believe may be the victims of foul play,…

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Manager Ordered Gaol Term ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 6

HAROLD Frederick Saunders (52), who had been manager of Sir Walter Duncan's Gum Creek Station for 26 years, was…

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Anonymous Letters Received by Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 7

SYDNEY, Saturday— Police have received two anonymous letters which they believe may prove ot considerable assistance in clearing up the…

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N.S.W. Auxiliary Police SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 2

When details are completed it is expected that about 7000 men will, be sworn in as auxiliary members of the New South Wales, police foree, but…

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Detectives Have Clue to Murder? Cyclist Being Sought MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 April 1939 · page 6

DETECTIVES have discovered a probable link with the cyclist who is thought to be the unidentified victim of the Dumosa hut murder, and for whom a State-wide search has been made for two weeks…

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"Hopeless Ivagrant" Six Months' GaolOrdered

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 1

WITH over 40 convictions in four States since 1924 a man described as a "hopeless vagrant" was sentenced to six…

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Theft of Sleepers Man To Pay £3 Fine

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 1

THE removal of seven sleepers from the Sydney railway line about 11 miles from Bioken Hill cost a young man £3 when he anpeaied before Mr…

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Sequel to Car Collision Court Proceedings Against Two

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 3

A RISING out of a collision between two motor cars at the intersection of Jamieson and Central streets or the night of February 1, the…

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