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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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A FTER spending only a few hours in Broken Hill a man who admitted "jumping the rattler" from South Australia, was arrested and charged with vagrancy. He was ordered three days' imprisonment by Mr. A.R…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A S a result of an incident which occurred in front of the Palace Hotel on the night of December 28 when a motor car collided with another car parked in front of the hotel, a man was arrested and charged with driving while…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY.—Detectives have now established that the murderer of Maurice Joseph Hannigan (68) was in the shop in King Street when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the Police Court yesterday Denis Ernest Watson Rowan pleaded guilty to being a person with insufficient means of support of January 10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increased pay, shorter, hours, and the right to appoint a secretary from outside the police force, were among the requests made by a deputation from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, July 11.—After police and British troops had made a "Guy Fawkes" search of the Egyptian Court buildings yesterday, two Palestinian Jews, Ellaho…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →INCIDENTS which occurred at the corner of Oxide and Cobalt Streets at 10 p.m. on Christmas Day when a woman was hit by a bottle allegedly thrown by one of two men passing along Oxide Street, were outlined to Acting Magistrate A. R…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A l9-YEAR-OLD laborer, who appeared in the Police Court yesterday on a traffic charge, was before the court again this morning charged with illegally using a motor cycle. Defendant was Ivan Roy Stephens,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY.— Constable Rupert Bodel (41) was sentenced to three months'imprisonment for having stolen a British sailor's wallet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Police Court yesterday a South Australian youth was charged on four separate counts of stealing. He had in his possession many and varied stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Constable Eric George Bailey (38), of Blayney, was shot three times in the stomach at point blank range last night while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Jan. 14.—Three F.F.I. officers have been sentenced to gaol by a military court in Maubeuge for kidnapping irom gaol and executing two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Detectives believe that Stephen Henry Cunningham (24), who shot himself on Saturday after a gunfight with police, may have murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, January 15.—A letter threatening death has been received by the President of the Court in Cairo that is trying Eliahm Hakim, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mackay, made history today when he promoted a constable posthumously, and also elevated two other officers involved in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane, January 16.—Flora Isabella King, mattered, of Ash Grove, Brisbane, was sentenced in the police court to one month's gaol for having beaten for 20…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne, January 16.—After Leslie Norman Moloney, of Rule Street, Richmond, parked his motor truck, containing a nine-gallon keg of beer, in a lane at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, January 16.—Lawyers from U.S.A., as well as from many parts of Britain, were sitting behind counsel when a murder trial opened at Old Bailey yesterday morning. High officers of the U,S. Army were also present…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE.—Nine months after his release on a four years' good-behavior bond, following conviction on nine offences against girls, a man was sentenced in General Sessions yesterday to two years' imprisonment for an indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Orange, January 17—At the Orange Court today. cy[?]ll Norman (32) was charged with the murder of Constable Erlc George Bailey at Blayney on…
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