Police Dragging River For Man
SYDNEY.—Police who are dragging the Woorona River for the body of Clarence Joseph Puckeridge (25), a soldier, of…
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Courts & crime, 1944
800 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 40
Barrier Miner Monday, May 22. 1944. Murder of War Prisoners
LAST week the news of the shooting of 47 Allied airmen who tried to escape from a Nazi prison camp was given out. It was another of…
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IN the Police Court this morning before Mr. C. F. Denton, S.M., Albert Edward Dickson was charged with having driven a motor vehicle negligently in Bonanza Street on March 18. There was a further charge of failing to give…
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Sydney, May 22.—Despite a good education and a permanent position as a junior railway porter. Owen Davoren (19), of Petersham, resorted to crime, on…
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LONDON, May 22.—Sentence of death imposed on Horace William Manton (40), fireman, has…
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ADELAIDE.—Supt. W. F. Johns, officer in charge of the mounted police division, will be the now Police Commissioner in succession to Brig.-Gen…
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Further proceedings were taken by the City Council against Thomas Mervyn Edward Murphy in the Court on Petty Sessions yesterday, When the chief…
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LONDON, May 25.—Today's tremendous Allied air assault on Hitler's Europe from the Baltic to the Alps went on far into the night. Berlin…
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SUPERINTENDENT W. F. JOHNS, who will be known as the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Johns) when he assumes office on July 1…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Greatest Cattle Stealing Case In Our History Story of Henry Redford
The greatest cattle stealing swindle of all time in Australian history was way back in 1870—that of Henry Redford, stockman, and his associates. "Thank God, gentlemen, the verdict…
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Salt Lake City, May 25.—Fifteen plygamists, who have 55 wives and 282 children, have been sentenced to from one to five years' prison for unlawful…
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Sydney, May 26.—Charged with breaking from a prison and escaping, "to the evil example of all others in a like manner offending." Stanley Hoppner (20)…
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SYDNEY.—Police are investigating the disappearance of £19,000 in notes from a house in Boundary Street, Clovelly, on Saturday. Alfred…
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Sydney, May 29.—Evidence that when her husband was drunk he was guilty of abnormal practices was given by Mrs. Theima Linell Cook (31) today in…
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SYDNEY.—Court officials at the Criminal Court, Sydney, claim that the verdict by a jury yesterday was unprecedented. The defence evidence had not finished at 4 p.m. when the court was adjourned until today and the jury was locked up for the night…
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BRISBANE.—Jessie Waters (20), married, was fatally stabbed at Ipswich last night. It is alleged that the woman was…
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Brisbane, May 30.—A 20 year old married woman, Jessie Waters, was fatally stabbed with a butcher's knife at [?]swich last night. She and a soldier had been…
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SYDNEY.—The theft of £680 belonging to Jock Samuel Monro, well known Western District bookmaker, from a week-end cottage at Sylvania…
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Sydney, May 30.—Mrs. Thelma Linnell Cook (31), who pleaded not guilty to a charge of having murdered her husband. Donald Sydney Linnell Cook…
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Sydney, May 31.—Roy Kable (32). a laborer. was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court on August 28 on a charge of murder by the City…
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