Wanderer Returns To Camp; Search By Police
A SEARCH was made during Saturday night and Sunday for a man who was supposed to have been lost in heavily timbered…
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Courts & crime, 1946
1,191 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 60
Serious Trouble In Alcatraz Gaol Prisoners Armed with Machine Guns and Other Weapons
San Francisco, May 3.—The warden of Alcatraz 'prison, James Johnston, has announced that he had issued a riot hall owing to "serious trouble" at the…
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Superintendent W. Morgan, officer-in-charge of the Western Police District, is expected to return here from Tibooburra to…
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Sydney, May 6—Evidence for the prosecution in the Kiosk murder trial fasted five and a half days and concluded shortly after noon today, when the defendant, Douglas Ronald Morris (26) journalist, entered the witness box to give evidence on his own…
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SYDNEY.—In the Special Federal Court today Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., upheld the appointment of Mr. W. C…
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Sydney, Mar 6.—Remarkable scenes were witnessed at Sydney Town Hall today when pandemonium broke loo[?] at a meeting called to protest against the…
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Sydney, May 7.—Douglas Ronald Morris (26), a journalist, admitted in the Central Court today that he had tried to mislead the police during their…
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SYDNEY.—Giving evidence for the defence at the kiosk murder trial today, an Austrian textile engineer who is now a…
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Sydney, May 8—The last witness for the defence in the trial of Douglas Ronald Morris (26) a journalist, on a charge of having murdered Mr. Jeanette Wicks on January 2, said she had seen Morris in Repin's coffee shop, King Street, a little after 3.30 p.m. on…
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ALICE SPRINGS.—After breaking out of the local gaol on Tuesday night, John Munday, about 26. mechanic, was run down by a search party just before noon yesterday. A blacktracker was responsible for…
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LONDON—The four men accused of hanging a boy at Liverpool while they were robbing his father's house were found not…
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SYDNEY.—A naval courtmartial today sentenced Richard Scott, 18, a rating of H.M.A.S. Bungaree, to six months gaol and dishonorably dismissed, him from the R.A.N., after he had been convicted of…
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A pleasant afternoon was spent yesterday on the tennis court in Morgun Land recently acquired by the Broken Hill Ice and Produce Coy and made…
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SYDNEY.—The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Kidston) in his address to the jury in the Kiosk murder case at the…
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Sydney, May 9.—In his address to the jury in the closing stages of the Kiosk murder case today, Mr. Kinkead, K.C., for the defence, said: "Once the police found bloodstained clothing they dropped everything else because they were satisfied that Morris was…
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AFTER a most interesting trip in the outback districts. Superintendent W. Morgan, officer in charge of the…
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Sydney, May 10—The jury in the Kiosk Murder trial returned from its retirement at 4.10 p.m. today and Morris' face was inscrutable as the men filed into their places. The foreman announced a verdict of not guilty, and there was an instantaneous outburst of…
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Sydney, May 10.âThe body of a ma[?] who died on Wednesday was seized by police at the mortuary today and taken to the city morgue. The body was that…
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Rabaul, May 12—Found guilty or the murder of three AIF men at Ambon in April, 1945, three Jap naval officers were shot yesterday. They were Lieut…
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Wellington, May 13.—Henry Tavenor (49), farmer of Apaley, near Wellington, died in hospital today as a result of being shot in the stomach on Saturday…
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