Narriearra Drowning Police Report
Constable C. Brayshaw, officer in charge of the Tibooburra Police Station has furnished further details concerning the death of Ida Blanche Bowman (12)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1943
777 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 39
Troops Show What Morale Means Grim Story of Assault on Jap Pit
Since my return to the mainland from New Guinea many people have asked me about conditions on the northern battlefield, and from their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Whippings and Gaol Melbourne, February 4
Convicted of robbery with violence, Albert Edward King (17) was in the General Sessions today ordered by Judge Magennis to receive two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Loses Money Robbery with Violence Charged Melbourne, February 7
Two soldiers who went to a house in Davis Street. Carlton, early on Saturday, were involved in a fight. One lost his money and one had a bottle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Years Gaol Man Who Broke Monte-Carlo Bank LONDON, February 6
Jacob Pastor, who this week was sentenced in Chicago to 10 years gaol for fraud, is remembered as the Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Cario…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Army Paymaster Charged £28,872 Involved Sydney, February 9
At the Central Court today Captain Guy Lyth Lambert (48) Deputy Paymaster in the Army Deportment, was remanded on £300 ball on 25 charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder of Taxi Driver Melbourne, February 9
The movements of Francis Phelan (33), taxi driver, last Saturday up to the time he was murdered has been accounted, for with the exception of 40…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No More Police to Enlist Sydney, February 9
No more members of the N.S.W. Police Force will be permitted to enlist, said the Deputy Director of Manpower, Mr. Bellemore, today. He added that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoner Corrects Magistrate
MELBOURNE.— "You can't do that, the maximum sentence for shoplifting is three months," said Colvin Morgan, 47, in the City Court, after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Alleged Sydney, February 11
On a charge of having maliciously murdered Angelo Azzappardi in Scale Street, City, last night. Richard Agius (38), a laborer, was remanded at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Writ Against Sergeant and Magistrate Sydney, February 11
Mr. Justice Roper in Chambers to-day refused the application for a writ to restrain A. G. Hardwick, Stipendiary Magistrate, and Sergeant J. B…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life Term For Gaol Breaker
PERTH.—Cumulative sentences of imprisonment for life, tor 10 years, and for five years with hard labor were ordered on three charges for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vagrant Again Before Police Court
Frederick Stewart (47), who appeared in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of vagrancy and was given until this morning to leave the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bus Men in Court Proprietor Fined For Assault
Following an alleged assault on the night of January 28, Phillip James Varcoe, bus proprietor, was fined £3 in the Police Court yesterday and was ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vagrants in Court
Two men charged with vagrancy in the Police Court yesterday were ordered to leave the city by 10 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Sergeant's Dismissal Before Appeals Board SYDNEY, February 15
An allegation that a police sergeant of first class rank, and near the [?] age, had suddenly been deprived of his position because he had said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reward for Murder Adelaide, February 16
The State Government has offered a reward of £500 for information leading to the identification of the murderer of murderers of three men in a house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vagrant in Court
Fredrick Stewart, who was remanded on Monday on a Vagrancy charge, [?] appeared before Mr. Soiling S.M. in the Police Court yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Cannot Tap Silent Telephones
CANBERRA.—The Postmaster General (Senator Ashley) said today that under no circumstances would the police be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charge Against Editor Further Police Evidence SYDNEY, February 16
Continuing his evidence at the Central Police Court today in the case in which Clarence Sydney McNulty, editor-in-chief of the "Daily Telegraph" has…
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