Raid On Meat Buyers And Carters "Black Market" Allegations In Court
Sydney, February 24.—"Blackmarket money" for meat transactions was found on two wholesale butchers' employees arrested in a prices raid at Homebush…
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Courts & crime, 1948
1,223 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 62
Gaol Concerts
SYDNEY— A concert by prisoners, at Goulburn Gaol, which will be broadcast by a Sydney station next Saturday night will be…
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MELBOURNE.— The Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. Duncan) will leave Melbourne in June to attend the International Police…
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PERTH— A threat to gaol the next hit-and-run offender was made in Perth Police Court by Mr. F. Bishop, J.J…
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Adelaide, February 25.—The City Coroner (Mr. Cleland) today committed Roy Selway (23), of West Mitcham, whose real name was said to…
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ROY SELWAY, 23 (covering his face), of Mitcham, who was committed by a coroner in Adelaide for trial on a charge of having murdered Sanda Selway, aged two years…
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Auckland (AAP-Reuter), February 25.—The re-trial of Mrs. Pansy Louise Frances Haskell (49), charged with murdering Gladvs Ruth Rusden, opened today…
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Sydney, February 25.—The appointment of Mr. S. McCarthy as Deputy Commissioner of Police was announced today by the Premier (Mr. McGirr). Mr…
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LONDON, Feb. 26.— Prague police today fired on students who were marching to the…
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Sydney, February 23.—In the City Coroner's Court today ex-P.O.W. Reginald James Kitching (27) was committed for trial on a charge of…
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ADELAIDE.— It was alleged in Adelaide Police Court against a man that, during a quarrel at a city boarding house, he struck a woman…
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SYDNEY— In a chase which extended over fences and through backyards police, at gunpoint, early today arrested two men whom…
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MELBOURNE— Clothing and private papers belonging to a Cypriot immigrant were found in scrub about 20 miles from Stawell. Police fear that the immigrant…
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Newcastle, February 25.—Police have found hundreds of serial bombs and land grenades which have been washed up on beaches between Swansea and…
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Tokio (AAP-Reuter ). February 26.—Four hundred Japanese policemen have been dismissed from office at Osaka since January 1 for co-operating with…
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At the Wilcannia Police Court on Saturday, February 21, two men were charged, one with supplying liquor to a person apparently having an admixture of aboriginal blood, and this person was charged, amongst other things, with unlawfully assaulting a…
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A VIGILANCE committee has been set up by B.I.C. to police a sharp risc in the price of commodities in Broken Hill. The first…
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Several matters were discussed at the adjourned meeting of the B.I.C. at the Trades Hall last night. Mr. E. P. O'Neill presided…
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Brisbane, February 26.—Rail and tram strikers' representatives were told in the Arbitration Court today that if the men returned to work on Monday their claim would be heard by the Court the same day. The Court was considering the railway…
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A PETTY theft of a most unusual nature occurred at the meeting of the Old Age Pensioners' Association last…
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