Swimming Police Boys' Carnival
MEMBERS of the Broken Hill Citizens Police Boys' Club will compete at a championship carnival to be held at the Zinc Corporation Baths on Friday night. The proceeds of the carnival…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,357 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 68
New Car for Police Force
On Monday Inspector Gorman, officer in charge of the Broken Hill Police District, returned from annual leave spent at Sydney and Nambucca Heads…
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Brisbane, March 11—Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown (49), accountant was today sentenced to life imprisonment after the jury found him guilty…
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Melbourne March 11.—Mrs. Isobel Maud Williamson, 34. of Barkly Av., Burnley, who was wounded in the right side when she was shot while on her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Court Is to Decide Judge's Powers In Arbitration Court Challenged Sydney, March 11
Whether Acting Chief Judge Drake-Brockman, of the Federal Arbitration Court has power to decide whether or not the standard hours and basic wage cases shall be heard together will be decided by the Full High Court of Australia…
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Sydney, March 14.—The Full Court of Criminal Appeal today rejected an appeal by William Joseph Cable (32), former police constable against his…
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MELBOURNE.—Roy Keith Ainslie, 29, rural worker, was charged before Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy and jury, in the Supreme Court at Shepparton, with the murder of John Mason, well known in the district as…
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LONDON, March 12.—Five of the 10 boys charged with having murdered William Peter Fieldhouse (21), assistant master…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Seeking Missing House
NEWCASTLE. — Local police are confronted with a most unusual problem. A Merewether man, Mr. W. McLellan, has…
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SYDNEY.—The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) said today that legislation was before the State Cabinet to provide full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese For Trial On Murder Charge; Story Of Suicide Of Gunman
MELBOURNE.—Yeung Shing was shot dead by Chan Kwan, who suicided last Friday, and Chan Sin, the other accused, was a principal in the second degree, Mr. Hammond, coroner, found when he committed…
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SYDNEY.—Mr. Justice Edwards commented during a hearing in the Divorce Court that the petitioner's love affairs must be very close to the world's record. "As a matter of fact, I think…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youthful Motor Cycle Riders In Police Courts; Traffic Breach Fines
MOTOR cyclists who failed to observe the conditions of their licences found themselves in trouble with the police, and several appeared before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.M., in the Police Court this morning to face…
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London, March 13.—The Jury found boys from Standon Farm Approved School, guilty of having murdered Assistant-Master. William Peter…
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Rockhampton, March 13—Three young men ore facing a murder charge in the police court following the finding of the body of Flora Prior (26) on February 26…
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In the Warden's Court yesterday before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, Mrs. Flore[?] mabel Petersen, 25 Wilson Street, Applied for a suspension of residence conditions…
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Sydney, March 13.—Late tonight the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case in which Antonio Martini (32) and Edward Garland (34) were…
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Adelaide, March 13.—Kevin John Saligari (20). engineer, was today committed for trial by the coroner on a charge of having murdered a waitress…
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MELBOURNE.—The Full High Court decided today unanimously that the Acting Chief Judge of the Federa) Arbitration Court (Judge Drake Brockman) did not have power to decide how the basic wage…
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Melbourne, March 13—In the Full High Court today argument was heard on whether Acting Chief Judge Drake-Brockman had sole authority to control procedure in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. The matter relates to the…
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