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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Pickets and Police Clash Over Strike Placards

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 March 1948 · page 1

BRISANE.—Police drew batons and hit several pickets over the wrists when the latter refused to drop placards they were carrying in a march, today. One hundred police and 400 rail and wharf strikers took part in the brawl over placards…

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Boys Arrested On Theft Charges

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 3

Following the breaking and entering of a butcher's shop over the week-end three young boys were apprehended by the police early yesterday morning…

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Police Force News

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 8

Constable Keith Norris arrived from Penrith last week to join thc Central Police Station staff This morning he was admitted to…

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Boys Before Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 8

Three boys appeared in the Children's Court this morning to answer a charge of having broken into a butcher's shop in North…

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BusDriver Fined £ Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 1

George Edward Read, bus driver, was fined £20 with £6 costs by Mr. Bott, S.M., in the Police Court today ' on a charge of…

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Mam Fails in Court Claim Against Wife

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 8

AN action by Thomas John Hatch against his wife claiming household goods valued at £13/10/ alle edly detained by her was dismissed by Mri Bott, S. I., in the Police Court today…

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Police Fail to Halt March of Strikers Batons Used To Capture Placard

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 1

Brisbane, March 15.—Police armed with batons failed to halt a march by over four hundred strikers from the Shell Company's depot at Bowen Hills to the Trades Hall today. After violent clashes with strikers the police succeeded in removing large anti-Hanlon placards which many of…

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Forty-One Japs Sentenced To Death For Murder Of American Airmen

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

Tokio (AAP-Reuter). March 16—The Eighth Army Commission at Yokohama today sentenced to death 41 Japanese for murdering three American naval…

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Man Sentenced On Charge Of Vagrancy

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 7

AFTER having no permanent job for five years, Herbert Frederick Slater, vagrant, may work…

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Boys Before Court

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

In the Childern's Court yesterday three young beys were charged with breaking, entering and stealing and with malicious damage to a butcher shop, the property…

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Court Application for Vacant House

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 6

William Percy and Patrick Donelly applied in the Police Court yesterday, under the War Service Moratorium Act, for possession of…

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Police, Strikers in Fierce Clash; Men's Leader Hurt

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE.— Scores of police thrashed with flailing batons into the strikers march in Brisbane today…

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Verdict For Plaintiff In Small Debts Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 8

IN a case arising from a year-old debt, Charles Stivala was ordered to pay £11/3/3 to Ivan Ravlich in the Small Debts Court today. Ivan Ravlich, of 166 Patton…

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First Arrests Under Anti-Picketing Law Police Prevent Street March

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

Brisbane, March 16.—The first arrest arising out of the present strike was mode in Brisbane this morning when Edward Conrad Englart (50), State Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, was taken into custody on two traffic…

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Comic Court In Brilliant Win At Cheltenham Veteran Ducal Defeats Sprinters

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 4

As Comic Court had recently defeated Melbourne's best two-year-olds at Flemington. It was not surprising that bookmakers demanded long odds-on when the…

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Bank Case Now Within Six Days Of Record For Full High Court Hearing Dr. Evatt In Fourteenth Day Of Address In Defence

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

Melbourne, March 16.—There was nothing in the Federal Constitution which put any Governmental operation in a position interior to that of any…

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Attempted Murder of Wife Is Alleged

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 8

BALLARAT—John Proctor Bird, 44, police constable stationed at Ballarat, was arrested last night and charged with the attempted murder of his wife, Violet Margaret Bird…

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Ordered Out Of Court

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

Brisbane. March 17.—Mr. Julius was ordered, out of court when he attempted to name a detective who he alleged Injured Mr. Paterson with a baton Julius…

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Labor Caucus Behind Hanlon; Police Action

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE—A proposal that a public inquiry should be held into yesterday's clash between strikers and the police was defeated by a large majority at a meeting of the Labor Caucus last night…

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Police Seize Gold Worth MoreThan£800

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE—Detectives who raided a house at Essendon seized more than £800 worth of gold…

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