The Barrier.Miner. Saturday, March 31, 1945. Court To Save Marriages
THE State Government has apparently got as far as considering the setting up of a Domestic Relations Court to try and reduce the high rate…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Gaol Suggested for Pillaging
HOBART.—Waterside workers often held a tarpaulin muster to pay fines for those convicted of pilfering from wharves. This allegation was…
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NEW YORK, April 2.—The most sensaticnal murder trial in the Bahamas, in which Count Alfred de Marigny was acquitted of murder of his father-in-luw, Sir Harry Oakes, may he reopend…
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SYDNEY.—A description of a young man who the police think may have been responsible for the murder of Joseph Morgan Houston (42),…
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On Monday the Police Boys' Club held a picnic outing at the Hillside Playground, Railway Town. A very good crowd of kiddles and their parents attended, and…
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PHILADELPHIA, April 4.—Police of several States, many armed with machine-guns, are searching for six of 12 convicts who escaped from an…
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NEW YORK, April 4.—A terrorist or ganisation named the "Avengers ot German Honor" has heen organised by the Gestapo, writes "Time" correspondent Raymond Daniels, from Aachen. There is little doubt, he says that the murder of the Mayor of Aachen was the work of the newly organ…
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After about 45 years, West Broken Hill police station has been officially closed and the necessary patrols of the district are being done from the Central…
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MANILA, April 4.—Some of Manila's poison liquor racketeers may be indicted on murder charges. The latest official announcement indicates that 14 members of the American armed forces have died from poisoning, and others have been blinded. But the death rate has now…
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MELBOURNE. — Four policemen pound themselves locked in their own watchhouse at Mornington. The police—Senior Constable…
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No cases have been listed for hearing at the sitting of the Court of Quarter Sessions to have been held at the Courthouse on Tuesday next…
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Melbourne April 5.—At the inquest today into the death of Kenny Raymond Jones (24), who was serving sentence, witnesses gave evidence of a fight in the…
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NEW YORK, April 5.—Aaron Rossman, of Miami (Florida), grew half an inch overnight to enable him to join the police force…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Assault on Vienna Begun Progress Made On Road To Berlin
London, April 6.—With the capture of Bruck, which was announced by Marshal Stalin, Marshal Malinovsky burst clean through the gap between Eusiedler Lake and the south bank of the Rhine en route to Vienna…
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MELBOURNE.—A man who appeared at Camberwell Court: was not on the electoral roll: was not registered with [?]power: had…
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SYDNEY.—Supt. Norman James has been appointed chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch of New South Wales…
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SITTING of the District Court, which was to be held at the Courthouse tomorrow at 10 a.m., will be adjourned until the following…
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Court reporter in the District Court this morning was Mr. C. T. Brandt, who is on his first visit to Broken Hill…
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Mr. A. R. Raschke, C.P.S., at the Courthouse received a request yesterday from the secretary of District Court Judges, Sydney, on behalf ot Judge F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Reap Harvest of Firearms
SYDNEY.—Eighteen hundred revolvers, mostly service type, hava been seized by the police in the past 12 months…
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