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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

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Stealing

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 April 1943 · page 3

In answer to Mr. Beerworth, Hoare said Davie was going in the direction of the salvage store when he was stopped…

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Life Sentence for Assault an Drobbery

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 April 1943 · page 1

NEWCASTLE.—On a charge of having assaulted and robbed two Dutch seamen at Carrington on March 18. William Henry Thomas Charles…

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Police Search For Albanian's Hidden Money

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 April 1943 · page 2

KALGOORLIE.—A wide police seurch is being made for a big sum of money believed to have been hidden by un Albanian before he died…

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University Quota Case For High Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 April 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY. — The State Full Court today decided by a majority verdict that the issues raised in the University quota…

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Manpower and Police Conference Decision Sydney, April 14

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 15 April 1943 · page 1

A motion that police at the retiring age of 60 should lose their rank when ordered by manpower authorities to continue in service was carried at the…

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Wilcannia Police Court Man Discharged

Western Grazier · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 2

Where Keith Maxwell Hand was brought before the Presiding Magistrate on Wednesday at the Wilcannia Police Court he was discharged because there…

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Theft Of Electric Current Man fined £10

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 3

When Albert Dolan, of Chloride Street pleaded guilty to a, charge of having fraudulently extracted electric current (the property of the city…

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Student King's Case Now Goes On To High Court SYDNEY, April 16

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 4

Because the State Full Court today decided that it had no power to deal with the application, the case in when Robert Bruce' King (16) a former…

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Man Charged With Murder

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 7

BRISBANE. — in a shooting affray at Virginia, near Brisbane, last nitht Walter James Colbrand (45), mail…

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Big Theft From Army Alleged Bathurst, April 16

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 1

When six soldiers and two civilians came before the Bathurst Police Court today on a charge of stealing property of the Commonwealth or having in their…

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Table Row in Court Story

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 7

A "first-class row," during which a man is alleged to have rubbed three pounds of ham in his wife's face and hair, resulted in the wife's being…

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Awaiting Murder Trial FILES £1000 Damages Claim Auckland (N.z.), April 16

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 1

John Sydney Crawford (25), who is awaiting trial on charges at having murdered two United States marines and the attempted murder of a girl and a…

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Committed For Trial Shooting of Military Police Melbourne, April 1

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 1

Charged with having shot at Acting-Corporal Arthur Reginald Beasley, of the RAAF Service Police, Roy Marshall (21). said to be AWL from the RAAF…

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Alleged Theft Of Army Goods

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY. — Property, including tyres, alleged to have been stolen from the Army at Bathurst, between January and March, was worth…

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15 Years' Gaol For U.S.Soldiers

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY. — Two United States soldiers, Pte. Karl Max Bock (21) and Pte. George Francis Bruderman (19), were sentenced by…

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Man Provides Police Puzzle

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—How Stanley Jerrett (46), laborer, of Carlton, suffered a fractured skull and of her injuries on…

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Police Can Check Up on Identity Cards

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE.— Extensive campaigns in all States to assist the Manpower Directorate in checking up the possession of identity cards by…

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Police and Soldiers Bathurst, April 19

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

The police had been hampered by military authorities who had refused to allow the police to secure signed statements from soldiers, said Police Sergt…

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Builders Charged Failure to Comply with Lawful Direction Alleged Melbourne, April 19

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

Under the National Security Regulations eighty-one members of the Building Trades Federation were present at the Melbourne Court today on a charge…

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Police and Identity Cards Melbourne, April 18

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

Extensive campaigns in all States to assist the Manpower Directorate in checking up the possession of identity cards by civilians were forecast by the…

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