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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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Sydney, February 21.—Standing quietly at attention, Douglas Ronald Morris (26) a journalist, today heard the City Coroner, Mr. Cookson, commit him for trial on o charge of having murdered Mrs. Jeanette Wicks (47) in her York Street tobacco kiosk on January 2…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A mine owner's emphatic denial of a average assault charge brought about by his partner was dismissed by Mr. H. Isles, SM,. in the Police Court yesterday and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, February 22.—Seven people saw Mrs. Lilian Miller, 31, being strangled in a Canterbury laneway, but none went to her aid or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BOMBAY, February 24.—Fighting has died down in Bombay, and apart from isolated disturbances in the mill area the situation in the city yesterday afternoon was reported to have improved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELA IDE,—Ernst Gustav Geue (48), springsmith, of Gilbert Street, Bowden on the Hill, was sent to gaol for six, months by Mr. Justice Mayo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, February 23:—At Central Police Court on Saturday. Mrs. Dorothy Irene Gordon, 39, wan charged with tho murder of Sophia May Jarvis, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY—At Central Police Court on Saturday Mrs. Dorothy Irene Gordon (39), was charged with the murder of Sophia May Jarvis, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 1 a.m. yesterday morning, a man smashed one of the inside left hand plate glass windows of H. s. Middleton's shop in Argent Street, Sgt. Loy, who was on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A VISITOR from Wentworth who created a disturbance in Argent Street last night appeared in the Police Court this morning on a charge of assaulting the police and offensive behaviour. He was sentenced to three months gaol on the assault charge and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last night about 0.15 o'clock a v[?]aitor from Sydney, a big man with pugilistic ability, commenced to throw his weight about in certain places he visited. and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE.—Michael Joseph Bennett, 52, was found not guilty in the Criminal Court on a charge that he, being a stipendiary magistrate,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne, February 26.—How his father, now dead, had been violent and sadistic and had punished children with a greenhide whip was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Michael Anthony Taylor (26), a visitor to Broken Hill who arrived on the bus from Wentworth on Friday, appeared before Mr. A. R. Raschke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY — John Athorn (34), laborer, released from Long B[?]y Gaol on Tuesday, last night smashed two city windows to get back to gaol. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →House breaking and burglary claims had at least doubled in the past year, and were steadily increasing insurance companies stated this week in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE.—Mr. P. R. Biggin, police magistrate of Hamilton, in a letter read to the Health Commission, bitterly condemned "the practice of some diners in public eating houses blowing tobacco smoke over others."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE.—On the day he was due for promotion to the position of senior inspector of Australian National Airways Ltd., Raymond…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man wh smashed two windows with an iron bar in Sydney, wanted to go back to gaol. "Conditions at goal," be is stated to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young man who created a disturbance in Chapple Street North this morning was arrested by the police. He was later…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Central Police Station reports that Constable Colyer was unfortunate yesterday in losing his pack cheque. If anyone finds this valuable document…
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