French Spy Plots Police Arrest Five Men
PARIS, April 24—The secret service and police, having collaborated in breaking sabotage and espionage plots,arrested five men today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
596 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 30
Sydney Club Case Police Story Of Visit; Fine For Licensee
THE story of a police visit to the Sydney club Hotal at 8.35 p.m on March 20 was told to Mr. A. B. Collins S.M:, in the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensees in Court Hotelkeeper Is Fined £4; Six Men Also Fined
SIX men who were found on the premises of the Exchange Hotel after hours on March 24 and the licensee of the hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Likely Change in Murder Verdicts
MELBOURNE, Thursday—Juries will be able to bring in verdicts of murder in first, second or third degrees if legislation being considered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minister On Charge Of Indecent Assault SYDNEY
WHEN the hearing of the case in which the Rev. Herbert Stanley Cocks is charged with having indecently assaulted a boy in the…
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ALLEGED to have broken a plate glass window in the shop of J. P. Martin, Argent-street, about 12.30 a.m. today and stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault On Photographer Denied Minister Will Discuss Matter Sydney
REPLYING to statements which appeared in the press regarding an assault on a press photographer by members of the R.A.A.F. when…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— In the Newtown Police Court Ernest Hepple (35) laborer, was fined £2 for having stolen roses valued at 5/- the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →12 Months' Gaol for Shopbreaking
SYDNEY, Tuesday.— When John William Ward (35), clerk, pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to shopbreaking, it was stated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxi Drivers in Police Court Offences On Race Day; One Case Fails
THREE taxi drivers appeared bfore Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday charged with failing to pull up as near as practicable to the left hand or near side of the roadway. Two were convicted and the charge against the third was dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press Years Gaol for Theft of £ 196
Sydney.— At the Quarter Sessions today Judge Curlewis sentenced William Walker Denny [?] to 12 months [?]…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— The death of Ian Robert Liddell (14) in a gas fllled Kitchen of a flat at Petersham Yesterday is believed by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Threat to Chief Witness Mayfair Men In Court LONDON, May 2
AN allegation that the principal witness for the Crown was threatened with a blow in the face from a broken bottle if he "squealed," was made by counsel for the prosecution when three Mayfair men appeared at a West End Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Spies In Britain Activities Of 100 People Being Checked By Police More Than to Be Expelled (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, May 2
SCOTLAND YARD has drawn up a list of more than 100 Germans, whose activities in Britain are being examined. The check on Nazi moyes in Britain follows consultations between the Police Commissioner (Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found Guilty of Murder Man Sentenced To Death SYDNEY
When the trial of John Trevor Kelly, who is charged with the murder of Marjorie Constance Sommerlad, was resumed at Armidale today,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Charged with Manslaughter
SYDNEY,Thursday—In the Manly Police Court today, Ernest Ferguson Stephens (32), a farmer, was remanded on a charge ot having at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Taxation Cases in Court on
Residents who have not met with alt tho demands of the Commissioner of Taxation will appear before the Police Court on Monday. The offences…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clerk Robbed of Pay Roll Man Charged With Theft MELBOURNE
A PAYROLL of £39 was stolen from Keith Wood, a youth employed by the Geconda Fur Company, as he was returning from a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"One of Noisiest Towns" S.m. Comments in Court
"THIS is one of the noisiest towns I have been in Either the motors arc in bad mechanical order or the drivers are not competent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Fear Missing Man Murdered SYDNEY
A message from Dubbo states that detectives have learned that a grey horse similar to one owned by the missing man, George Bartley, was…
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