Three Months' Gaol For Vagrant
In the Police Court on Saturday morning Frederick Harold James (36), a laborer. pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy…
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Courts & crime, 1943
777 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 39
Death Of Police Sergeant McAvoy
Word was received in Broken Hill today of the death at Adelong yesterday of Sergt. A. McAvoy, who was formerly stationed in this district. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judge Puzzled By High Court Judgments SYDNEY. May 13
Three majority judgements of the High Court seemed to be the most unconvincing judgments of fact he had ever read either as student. barrister, or judge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ghastly Murder of Whites in New Guinea Atrocities By Natives And Japanese Somewhere in New Guinea. May 15
A shocking multi-tragedy, combining all the criminal elements of betrayal, rape, murder, treason and the bestial savagery of the Japanese juggernaut and of native bad-men gone beserk, has been revealed by the apprehension of several renegade natives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mean Theft From Newspaper Boy
Some person or persons were responsible for a despicable act yesterday evening when they removed a canvas bag containing nine dozen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Have Goods Found in Streets
Articles found in city streets and handed in to the Central Police Station include a new pair of baby's shoes, a gent's gold signet ring set…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Proved Friends To Canadian Who Had Hated Them Since A Boy
LONDON, May 17.—Army driver Raymond Patry missed the gallows by a hair's length—the 5in. of one single hair. The hair now reposes with the balaclava helmet on which it was found in Scotland Yard's black museum…
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AUCKLAND.—Leo Edward Morland, Australian metallurgist, age[?] 42, was found guilty in Christchurch Supreme Court of having stolen from…
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In the Wilcannia Police Court yesterday, Peter John Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny as a bailee…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.).—For having murdered two U.S. servicemen, John Sidney Crawford, 26, seaman, of South Africa, was sentenced in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plea Of Guilty To Murder TOWNSVILLE May 17
In the Criminal sittings of the Supreme Court today Leosthenis Rallis pleaded guilty to having wilfully murdered Chistodula Averino at Home Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Months' Gaol For Man
In the Wilcannia Police Court on Tuesday. Peter John Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny as a ballee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Generals and Mass Murder
LONDON, May 19.—Sir Leonard Lyle (Con.), in the House of Commons, gave notice that he would ask Mr. Churchill this question:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Sergeant McAVOY
On Sunday last the death occurred at Adelong of Police Sergeant A. McAvoy, aged 45 years. The late sergeant was well known in Wilcannia for he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Compensation Investment Causes Six Months' Gaol Auckland in (Z.i.), May 20
Receiving £1,000 in accident compensation, Raymond spencer, married with six children, invested it in liquor. To-day he was gaoled for six months for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hobart Gaol Inquiry Woman Spends Night In Convict's Cell HOBART, May 20
Evidence was given at the Commission of Inquiry into the Hobart Gaol that a young woman had spent several nights with a convict in his cell, and that she…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wilcannia Court Six Months for Larceny
On Tuesday, at the Wilcannia Court of Petty Sessions, before Police Magistrate Mr. R. Solling. Peter John Campbell was convicted of larceny as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Murder of Husband Melbourne, May 21
Mrs Kathleen Elizabth Benehan (37), was churned today with the murder of her husband, Thomas Lenehan, at their home in Garvoc on Monday night. It…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl Charged with Murder of Child Orange, May 21
When Gladys Whitley (18), appealed before the Orange court today charged with the murder of a newly-born infant, whose body was found in a sugar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Ball on July 30
At a meeting of the local branch of the Police Association held yester[?] day, it was decided to conduct Police[?] Ball at the Palais de Danse on July [?]…
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