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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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London, February 16.—Detectives recovered from a house in the Home Counties a collection of rare butterflies worth thousands of pounds, allegedly missing from Australian and New Zealand museums. Scotland Yard, after months…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horry Van Pelt, charged with having stolen two canteens of cutlery valued at £32, in the Police Court yesterday, declined to give his evidence at the condusion of the case for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bethurst, February 17.—The trial was Unusual because the body of William Henry Levers had not been found declared the Crown Prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne, February 18.—Richard Buries (39) wharf laborer of Richmond was committed for trial from the Richmond Court today on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, February 18.—Two attempts have been made recently to start extensive fires in Pentridge gaol, Coburg…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greenville (South Carolina), February 18.—An armed mob of thirty-five white men lynched a negro whom they had seized from a gaol after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, February 18.—Late this afternoon detectives arrested James Henry Napper, of Sale, and charged him with the murder of his father Harry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SALE—Arrested at the Gippsland Hospital yesterday afternoon, James Henry Napper, 24, an ex-serviceman, was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Two men who were to have appeared in the Redfern Police Court today on charges of breaking and entering, escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, February 19.— Mrs. Doris May Davis (27), mother of three children, was today remanded on £50 bail at the Parramatta Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, February 19. — James Henry Napper (24), share former, of Sale, was today remanded to appear in Melbourne next Wednesday on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bathurst, February 19.—The trial of Frederick Lincoln McDermott (38), laborer, on a charge of having murdered William Henry Lavers in 1936 was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following an incident near the Commercial Hotel at bout 10.10 p.m. yesterday a man was arrested and charged with using…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE.—New strikes possibly arising from a court refusal to grant increased week-end pay would be. preferable to agreement which would eventually lower the standard of living, cause inflation and endanger economic organisation, Mr. R. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne, February 20.—A 19-year-old laborer, Thomas Joseph McLean, of Larter Street, Ballarat East. was charged in Colac Police Court yesterday before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, February 20.—The higher value of Australian production in recent years was quoted in the Full Arbitration Court as Justifying a higher wage or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney, February 20.—A High Court writ challenging the validity of Price Regulation No. 1817, concerning the price of meat, was issued yesterday or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney, February 20.—Heavily guarded by a squad of police, two men who were charged with having escaped from police custody at Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHEPPARTON.—- Roy Keith Ainslie, 29, rural worker formerly of Kerr street, Fitzroy, was committed for trial on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When he appeared before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, deputy S.M., in the Police Court this morning, a man who is a regular offender…
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