Murder of Polish Officers Moscow Makes Denial LONDON, April 19
In a broadcast to Germany, the Moscow radio today described as "a hideous frame-up" the German allegation that several thousand Police officer had been…
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Courts & crime, 1943
777 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 39
Alleged Theft From S. A. Shop
ADELAIDE.—Within an hour of her arrival from Broken Hill yesterday morning a 26-year-old married woman was detected, shoplifting in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Baby Murder Alleged SYDNEY, April 30
Margaret Jane Murray (23) was committed for trial on a charge of murder at an inquest at wollongong today into the death of a newly-born…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Verdict Death Sentence Imposed Melbourne, April 20
After a retirement of an hour and forty minutes. a jury at the Central Criminal Court today found Norman Morris Searle (25) guilty of the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maria Martin's Murder In Red Barn; Details Found After 114 Years
LONDON, April 21.—A macabre, yellowing parchment found after 114 years in the Town Clark's safe at Bury Sa[?]nt Edmunds adds another to the macabre mementoes of Britain's most dramatised murder—the murder of Maria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police For Trial On Assault Charge SYDNEY, April 22
Detective Constable Gordon McLean and Douglas Cornish were committed for trial at the Central Police Court today on a charge of having assaulted Donald…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For Trial for Murder of Seaman Sydney, April 22
The City Coroner, Mr. Orom. today committed for trial Raymond Fina (28), engineer, and Reginald John Stopp (35), laborer, both of Surry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Questioning of Motorists
Many residents of Broken Hill visited Menindee over the holidays. It is reported that some had to answer questions regarding motor…
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MELBOURNE.—When police called at a house in South Melbourne to investigate a report that a man armed with an axe was…
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MELBOURNE.—Following the discovery of the remains of a newl[?] born child in a suitcase in a cupboard in a house in Kensington, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Warning To Children
The dangerous practice of children with four-wheeled soap box carts careering down city streets has again become prevalent, und police have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Valueless Cheque Passed by Man at Hotel 12 Months' Gaol For False Pretences
A MAN who successfully cashed one false cheque for £20 by passing it at the Grand Hotel and tried to pass another for £20. appeared before Mr. R. Solling, S. M., in the Police Court today on a charge of obtaining money by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Absentee Workers Before Court Sydney, April 27
Garrett James Bulley. who at the Central Summons Court today was bound over to observe the Notional Security Economic Organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Willcannia Police Court Aborigines Appear For Disturbances
A serious attitude was taken by the presiding Justice when four aborigines appeared before him at the Wilcannia Police Court on Monday morning. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stole Red Cross Tobacco Nine Months' Gaol Sydney, April 29
Norman Tromph (41) who, at the Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen 1,120 ounces of tobacco, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Murder Of Boy Soldier's Alleged Confession Sydney, April 29
Lionel Roy Barlow (24), soldier, who had been charged with murder, was present when the inquest was opened at Parramatta today on Albert Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Christie Admitted to University Both High Court Cases End Sydney, April 29
Litigation resulting from the rejection of the application by Laurence Douglas George Christie (16), and Robert Bruce King (16), both of Broken Hill, for admission to the Sydney University, terminated today, when in the High Court of Australia it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Court Upholds Appeal Damages for Edgely and Dawe Sydney, April 29
The High Court of Australia today upheld an appeal by Seic Edgier White and Clem Daw White, professionally known as "Edgely and Dawe," against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaoled For Assault
SYDNEY.—At the Sydney Quarter Sessions today. Elizabeth Walker (50). who, it was alleged by the Crown, attacked Joseph Henry Seckold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Assault By The Russians
LONDON, April 30.—The Russians have thrown 100,000 men and several tank brigades into a new assault to drive the Germans out of their Kuban bridgeheads in the Caucasus, says a Stockholm report. Moscow remains silent, about the report, but Berlin commentators refer to a heavy…
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