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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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HYMAN RICHARD DIAMOND (36), an Australian company director, today sued three police officers for damages for alleged false imprisonment. He alleged that the police arrested him in mistake for John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FUNCHAL (Madeira), February 16.—"Sheer murder" was how more than 100 survivors of the convoy attacked by a German raider between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An unusual end to the wrestling bout at the Stadium night between Tom Lurich and George Pencheff was the disqualification of both men after Referee Erricks' singlet had been torn from his back and he hod become embroiled in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A duel between police and a man armed with a rifle occurred at Gundagai yesterday. Before the man was overpowered he held oil the police for five hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Handcuffed together, and looking soiled and tired after their desperate bush escapade, the three young German internees who were captured at pistol-point…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The three German internees who escaped on February 7 and were recaptured on Thursday were brought to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arising out of the removal of Mrs. Pearl Metcalf to Camden Hospital last Saturday with bullet wounds in her legs and the little finger on her right hand…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roy Newton Franks, radio mechanic of Station 2HD was sentenced to three months' Imprisonment for having refused to take the oath required under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The influence of beer on the public is clearly evidenced by the lack of cases on fe Monday morning at the Police Court. There were customarily several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NORMAN ARTHUR HOWARD (36), of Thormbury, a former first constable attached to the mobile police, was committed for trial in the City Court on chartres of having stolen a car valued at £185 at Carlton on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Hundreds of people in Botany road, Waterloo, saw a fierce fight between two men who had been arrested, and four detectives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Michael Burns, laborer, of Richmond, who yesterday was round guilty of the manslaughter of his wire, was sentenced to three years' gaol in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Michael Burns, laborer, of Richmond, who yesterday was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife, was sentenced to three years' gaol in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Saturday. DESCRIBING an attack with an axe, counsel said in the Port Adelaida Police Court that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"FOLLOWING the recovery yesterday of three horses alleged to have been stolen from Sturts Meadows Station, a horsebreaker…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A man who came before the Police Court yesterday on three charges of horse-stealing was released on £50 ball by the Magistrate, Mr. A. B…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police yesterday seized a number of military boots, the leather of which it is alleged had been condemned by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Opposing the granting of bail to a man in the Newcastle Police Court, the police said that they wished to protect him from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A German internee who recently escaped Irim custody together with two other men. today told the Echuca Court that he bad no religion. The internee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allegations that defendants had been practising nudism mere made at the Quarter Sessions today, when four men and two women were charged with…
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