Gaol Fitted For Work
"Her health has improved, amazingly during the two months she has been in prison." This statement concerning Brenda…
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Courts & crime, 1941
659 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 33
Charged with Abduction Mother In Court MELBOURNE
A FAIR-HAIRED, eight-year-old girl was the central figure in a case in the City Court when a woman appeared on two charges of abduction…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Muswellbrook Police Court Joseph Charnock was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered. Mrs…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Dr. Franklin Christian Richards (64), one of two men charged with the murder of Winifred Pretoria O'Brien, appeared before…
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At a meeting of members of the local police force held yesterday, and at which the inspector of Police for the district. Mr. Hormann, attended. it was decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move To Purchase Spit[?]ire Planes Police Launch Fund; Donations Reach £85
TO be known as the Barrier District Spitfire Fund a movement to raise funds for the purchase of one or more Spitfires was decided on at a meeting of members of the local Police Force held at the Courthouse yesterday…
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NAIRORI, March 11.—Major Sir Henry Delves Broughton has been charged with the murder of the Earl of Errol, who was found dead in a…
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CAIRNS, Thursday.—In the Police Court Harry J. Smith, station owner was committed for trial on a charge of having wilfully murdered Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dilution Agreement Arbitration Court Decision SYDNEY. March 12
An opinion held by Sir Frederick Stewart when he won Minister for Supply was held to be Immaterial by Judge O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable Says Saw Murder Pastoralist Charged BRISBANE. March 13
Evidence that a station owner had drawn a pistol from his holster and shot dead his brother-in-law in the presence of a police constable and a blacktracker…
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There was a dramatic interruption from the body of the Court today by the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Nolan, when Judge Poster was about to sentence three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Assault On Germany Big Losses Continue Italian Failure ATHENS, March 14
ITALY'S desperate use of 1917 Western Front tactics, necessarily involving heavy casualties, again failed in Albania yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Magistrate Leaving
Mr. A. [?]. Collins stipendiary magistrate in Broken Hill for the last two years, has been transferred to Liverpool, Sydney. His last sitting…
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It has now been announced that the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. A. B. Collins, has been transferred from this district to the Liverpool district near Sydney. He…
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WELLINGTON (N.S.W.), Tuesday. —A remand for fourteen days was granted at the local Police Court this morning when Harvey Oliver Potts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police To Rescue Of Sick Man Taken To Wilcannia From Camp On Darling
ALTHOUGH he was a stranger in the area Constable Marshall of Broken Hill, who is relieving Constable J. Buck, of the "travelling police station," last week covered more than 256 miles to bring a sick man to…
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SYDNEY. Match 18. The Police Reserve Bill, which was originally introduced in the Legislative Assembly in October, 1939, will be passed…
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Word has been received that Mr. Justice Street will preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court to be held in Broken Hill commencing on April 1. So far there are two criminal coses set down foi hetrlntf, one of all«6ed horse steuluiB and the other of alleged bigamy…
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CANBERRA. March 18. A statement by the organiser of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association. Mr. Sutherland, that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Assault On Wife ADELAIDE
Allegations that John James Jones (31), laborer, of Cole Avenue, Flinders Park, had struck his wife with an axe while she was in bed were…
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