Police Stop Floats Race Trainers Perturbed MELBOURNE
A police edict that trainers shall not be allowed to travel in horse floats to race meetings has caused a surprise in racing circles…
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Courts & crime, 1939
596 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 30
Charged With Murder Of Schoolboy
MELBOURNE, Friday. — Henry Bray (52), horticulturist, of Red Cliffs, was charged at the Ballarat Supreme Court with the murder…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Timothy Ryan (44), laborer, of St. Peter's, was last night charged with having murdered Eric Carlson, aged 50 years, seaman…
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A girl of 25 was battered to death and her brother critically injured Saturday on a farm, on the main Brisbane road near Tenterfield…
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When Cecil Charles Richards appeared before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today charged with having unlawful assaulted Edgar…
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Noel Alfred Palmer was ordered nine months' imprisonment with hard labor by Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today when he…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Thomas Joseph Morgan (27), a. wealthy grazier who had become mentally unstable when his fiancee jilted him,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate Rebukes Motorist Fines Htm £5 For Speeding
THE pedestrian has as much right as the motor driver, but his, life would be a short one if others like you were allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Incendiary Bombs As Greatest Police Make Visit To Billiards Saloon Result of Letter
ALLEGATIONS that a man had rushed into a billiards saloon at Railway Town and called out "cut it out; pOlice," were made by Constable Ashton in the Police Court today when telling of a visit made to the saloon on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Theft Charge Men Sentenced MELBOURNE
FIVE men, four of whose homes and personal property were destroyed in the Wood's Point bush fire, were sentenced by…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.— In the Police Court today three members of the police force were charged in connection with disturbances during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Betting In House Police Story in Court Today Father And Son Charged
HOW Constable Ashton had allegedly entered a house in Chapple-street yesterday afternoon and had made two bets with a man at the house was told in the Police Court today when a father and son appeared before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—After giving Thomas Howard McDonald Steele (23), radio announcer, a suspended sentence of six months at North…
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THREE London men were accused at Oxted, Surrey, recently of conspiracy to damage a motor car secured under hire purchase agreement by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wilcannia Man Charged Evidence Alleges His Lorry Struck Three Gars Hearing in Adelaide Criminal Court Adelaide
FOLLOWING the death of four men in a collision involving four motor vehicles near Gepp's Gross, on November 30, Harry Scarce (24), single, carrier, of Wilcannia, New South Wales, was charged before Mr. Justice Cleland in the Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Little Corner of Heaven" Sweet Exhibits in Court Adelaide
THE Adelaide Police Court would have appeared as a little corner of heaven to children if they had seen the exhibits on display there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Months Gaol For Stealing Man Described As Worst Money Beggar
FRANK Alfred House (33), laborer, whom the police described as one of the worst, money beggars in Broken Hill,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Prosecution of jay walkers commenced in real earnest in the Sydney Traffic Court today when 10 offenders were fined…
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A double murder was revealed in the Tamworth district Friday when the bodies of Mrs Ross Dixson (24), of Cangi Station, Tamworth, and her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Friend of Duke Stir Caused Over Court Order (Special to "The Miner.") JOHANNESBURG, February 17
A COURT order was issued today attacking the person of Charles Bedeux, wealthy American efficiency expert and the Duke of Windsor's…
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