Police Tribute To Broken Hill People ADELAIDE
AS the 10-day carnival ended, said Inspector J. R. Johns, speaking at the New Year's Eve celebrations at Semaphore, it was pleasant to say…
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Courts & crime, 1940
447 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 23
Ruse by Police Succeeds
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—"Don't come near me or I'll jump," shouted a well-dressed man poised on the railing of the Sir Macpherson…
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NORMAN Charles Sydney Sutton (45), who escaped from Fremantle Prison on December 21, was recaptured in dramatic circumstances…
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FATALLY stabbed with a carying knife at his home in North Melbourne on the night of December 21, Frederick Stringer…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—No actions instituted since the beginning of the war in September have yet been heard in the Supreme Court. It is understood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arbitration Court to Sit on January 18
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Full Arbitration Court will assemble in Melbourne on January 18 to consider further applications by unions…
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THE hearing was resumed today of the case in which Ronald Bruce Walker, M.L. A.; Albert Levitus, solicitor; Clive Oscar Airey, traveller;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protection of Homes Police Worked Well in Holidays
ONLY one case of a home being entered during the absence of the occupiers on Christmas holidays has been reported to the police. The case,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peers, Actors, Actresses English Divorce Court List LONDON, January 8
A CTORS, actresses, peers and other notable persons appear in the latest divorce list. Herbert Leigh Holman, barrister,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mari Ordered Gaol For Six Months Found Guilty Of Assault On Woman At South Sm. Says Victim Respectable
IMPRISONMENT for six months with hard labor was ordered Harold Edward Brown, (32), mechanic, when he was convicted, by Mr. M. S. Meagher, Acting S.M., in the Police Court today on a charge of havirig…
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DUBLIN, January. 9.—A bomb thrown during a black-out into the main entrance of the constabulary, headquarters in Londonderry rocked…
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SYDNEY. Wednesday.—The Attorney-General (Sir Henry Manning) appeared at the Central Police Court today in the conspiracy charge case,…
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SYDNEY. Wednesday.—The Attorney-General (Sir Henry Manning) appeared at the Central Police Court today in the conspiracy charge case,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft of Watch
Arrested last night, Gilbert Roy Millard (32), motor mechanic appeared before Mr. M. S. Meagher, acting S.M., today charged with…
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Several articles are in the possession of the police awaiting owners. Postal notes, hats, a handbag, binoculars and bicycles are included in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Family Quarrel Ends in Court Man Bound Over For Assault
"HE deserved all he got and more," Mrs. Irene Symonds, wife of Cecil Keith Symonds, of McGowan Street', told Mr. M. S; Meagher, Acting S.M., in the Police Court today when her brother was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft of Wristlet Watch Identification Problem
CLOSE cross-examination of witnesses by Mr. J. J. Davoren marked the hearing of a theft charge against a young mechanic before Mr. M.S; Meagher, Acting S.M., in the Police Court today. The witnesses…
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INTERESTING legal argument on larceny, "recent poasession," and other aspects was made by Mr. J. J. Davoren in the Police [?] when a charge of larceny, against a young South Broken Hill mechanic was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Husband Told Police of Wife's Stealing
A wife of 18 was at Hove, Sussex sentenced to a month's haid labor for theft the result of her husband telling the police by phone that his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft Not Proved by Prosecution In Reserved Decision, S.M, Discharges Mechanic
TN his reserved decision in the Police Court today Mr. M. S. Meagher, Acting S.M dismissed a charge af larceny against Gilbert Roy Millard, mechanic. He stated that the onus had been on the police to prove that Millard had stolen the watch…
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