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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Could Not See Child Suffer Mother's Story Related at Inquest Alleged Murder Of 9½ Months Old Boy ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 3

DR. DONALD JAMES SUMNER, of Linden Park, told the Coroner's Court today that a 21-year-old mother called on him last week and said calmly that she had murdered her infant son…

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Remanded On Attempted Double Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Central Police Court today. Sydney Ernest Sloane (24), laborer, was charged with having at Paddington on…

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Assault on Girl Driven Away In Car SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 2

WHILE a 10-year-old girl was standing on a footway at Belfield last night she was accosted by a man who asked her where a certain…

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Unclaimed Bicycles at Police Station

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 4

Bicycle owners who have had their machines stolen recently are asked to call at the Police Station to view five machines that were recovered…

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Police Officers on Trial Great Interest At Wentworth Jurors Reluctant to Serve Wentworth

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 3

A CASE of great public interest at the Wentworth Quarter Sessions before Judge Stacy today, was that in which Police Sergeant Cecil Roy Kirk and First-Constable John Theodore Rowland were charged with…

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Youth Sentenced to Death

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Convicted in the Criminal Court yesterday of having criminally assaulted a 15-year old girl at Nowra on March 15,…

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Man Faces Two Murder Charges

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 6

DUBBO, Thursday.—When Albert Andrew Moss (61) appeared before the Dubbo Police Court on a charge of murdering Thomas…

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Stop Press McKAY and Talbot Sentenced in N.Z.

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 1

AUCKLAND. Gordon Robert Mckay and James Arthur Talbot were today sentenced on charges of interfering with a body and…

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Wentworth Police Acquitted

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

WENTWORTH, Friday.—The jury in the Quarter Sessions yesterday found Sergeant Cocil Roy Kirk and Constable John Theodore Rowland…

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Stop Press Not Guilty of Murder

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY.—The trial of Leslie Cornelius Wilson (29) laborer, who is charged with having murdered Stanley James Leonard at…

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"I Killed Him All Right" Police Allege Confession By Accused SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 3

WHEN the case in which Albert Andrew Moss in charged with having murdered an old age pensioner, Thomas…

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Motorist in Court Sequel To Injury To Woman Cyclist

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 3

FOLLOWING a collision last night between a woman cyclist arid a motor car in Gypsum Street, the driver of the car appeared before Air…

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Was Shot Intended for Duchess of Kent? Police Probing Mystery; Speedy Arrest Gun Found Near Royal Home (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, June 5

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 3

THE Duchess of Kent, who will leave this year for Australia, figured in a sensational scene last night. when a shot was fired as she was leaving her home in Belgrave Square for a West End cinema. She was…

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Alleged Attempt To Murder Pawnbroker

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 June 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday—In the Central Criminal Court today Eric Kelly (26), laborer, and Robert" Sidney Jones (34), motor mechanic, were…

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News In Brief Attempted Murder Charge

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 June 1939 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday—William Sampson (28), laborer, was charged in the Police Court with having artempted to kill Isabelle M. Hetth…

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Charged with Armed Robbery

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 June 1939 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.- Leslic Lang (28), a hairdresser, was remanded at the Central Court today on a charge of having on May 25 at…

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Invented Assault As He Feared Row With Friend ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 June 1939 · page 4

BECAUSE he was afraid he would get into a row with his girl friend for being late home, Glennarth Williams agent, of Mitcham Railway Station, coneacted a remarkable story. He told his parents that he had been hit on the head by a man while he…

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Tension in Prague Police Chief Murdered (Special to "The Miner.") PRAGUE, June 8

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 June 1939 · page 3

Rigorous steps have been taken in Kladno as a result of the murder of German Chief of Police,…

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Police Club Robbed BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 7

A PARTICULARLY daring robbery was carried out last night. While police were working on the ground floor of the…

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Police Guard for Pawnbroker

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.-A constant day and night police watch over the pawnbroker, Natham Segal, is being maintained. During the week two…

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