Police Ball
Joe Keenan's Swing Ocette will supply dance music for the annual Police Ball to be held at the Palais on Tuesday night. Another attraction will be the…
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Courts & crime, 1944
800 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 19 of 40
Relieving Magistrate Arrives
Mr. E. Hodgson arrived by last night's Comet from Sydney to act as relieving Stipendiary Magistrate during the absence of Mr. R. W. S. Kelly on sick leave…
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Charged with having broken a window at an Argent Street store, a man in the Police Court today gave as his reason that he wanted to go to gao[?]…
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Katoomba, June 14.—At the Katoomba Police Court today, Augustine Joseph Fitzgerald, a prominent Macquarie Street doctor, was charged with having on…
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In the Licensing Court this morning, Walter Cetinich was granted a billiards room licence covering premises in Patton Street, South Broken Hill…
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James Peter Martin proceeded against Ann Mallon for the recovery of an amount of £26/6/2 for goods sold and delivered…
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PERTH.—Raymond Henry James Magann, 21, denied in the Criminal Court having had a collision with a man on a bicycle on April 18, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germans Torture And Murder U.S. Paratroops; Typical Nazi Brutality
NEW YORK, June 14.—Germans tortured and murdered American paratroopers in the early Normandy landings, American correspondents claim. The Germans slit the throats of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Calwell And Ward Seek Suppression High Court Bench Further Action Against Newspapers Suggested
Canberra, June 14.—The dismissal of the entire High Court Bench is understood to have been urged on the Federal Cabinet by a Minister because of the…
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A man who virtually insisted on going to gaol as his punishment appeared in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. E. Hodgson. S M. He was Leonard…
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Last night thieves broke into the premises of Wilkinson & Co., in Blende Street and stole a quantity of tobacco…
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Sydney, June 15.—Louis Mark Patmoy, pawnbroker, was charged at the Central Court today with having had in a safe deposit vault at the Bank of N.S.W.,…
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In the Licensing Court yesterday permission was given by the S.M., Mr. E. Hodgson, to Hannah Ellen Hill to proceed with material alterations to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Acquitted On Coupon Stealing Charge
Sydney, June 16.—Jack Thomas purcell (32). a taxi driver of Sydney, was required at the Kogarah court today on a charge of having broken and…
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The Flying Doctor service and the Orphanage will benefit from the proceeds of the Police Ball, which will be held in the Palais de Danse on…
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In the Police Court on Saturday morning Alfred Brenton (31), a miner, was sentenced to one month's hard labor by Mr. E. Hodgson, Acting S.M., for…
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ADELAIDE.—John Kelly (29), half-caste aboriginal laborer, or McLaren Vale, was charged in the Adelaide Police Court today with…
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The annual effort of the local members of the police force on behalf of charities will be staged tomorrow night in the Palais de Danse, when…
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MELBOURNE.—An unusual course was taken at the opening of the Agostini murder trial today when, after the jurymen had taken their…
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Adelaide, June 18.—An aliened argument with aboriginals during the meeting at Victoria Park racecourse yesterday resulted in the death of Stanley…
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