Men Charged With Murder Of Accused Man
Sydney. Feb. 10.—A man failed to appear in the Central Court today on a charge of stealing, but two other men appeared in the same court on a charge…
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Courts & crime, 1948
1,223 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 62
Court Action Recalls Fatal Accident
Arising out of an accident near the Palace HoteL on June 16, 1947, in which a young man was killed when his motor cycle collided with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smugglers Fight Police To Regain Seized Opium
BANGKOK, February 10.—Two hundred horsemen of a Yunnan (China) smuggling gang swept across the Siamese border in a raid to recover £50,000 of opium about to be seized by police…
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At the Wilcannia Police Court on Thursday, February 5. Leonard Moisey was charged before Messrs E. C. Young and D. Davidson, JsP. with having…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Visitors Rest In Gaol And In Parks
Accommodation problems are still causing new arrivals concern. Visitors who came from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court
Before Mr. A. N. Bott, S. M. in the Licensing Court yesterday an application by Charles William Jones for an extension of time to complete improvements at…
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HOBART. — A photographer with a small magic-eye camera took a picture of Cosgrove trial proceedings in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Noisy Motor Cyclists Go to Court
Motor cyclists who removed the muffler boxes from the exhaust of their cycles were charged before Mr. Bott in the Police Court…
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LONDON, February 13. — A young woman prisoner on remand in Holloway Prison, London calmly walked out during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Murder Of Wife; Man Remanded
SYDNEY—A former prisoner of war was remanded, without ball, in Central Court today on a charge of having murdered his…
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SYDNEY.—A 27-year-old man walked into Camperdown Police Station late last night and handed a revolver to the…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), February 12.—A man was questioned [?] Christchurch by detectives investigating the death of Leslie James…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warden's Court Matters
Irene Maude Stewart, 63 Thomas Street, was granted an extension of time in which to register the transfer of a mining tenement in the Warden's Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debt Causes Court Action
In the Court of Petty Sexton yesterday Mr. A. N. Bott, S.M. gave judgment in a case in which John McCubbin made application to pay off a debt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wild Dash in Sydney Streets Police Cars In Exciting Capture
Sydney, February 15.—Six police cars in a wild 20 mile dash through the Western Suburbs last night chased an allegedly stolen car. In the stolen car was a man with a severed wrist artery slowly bleeding to death…
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AUCKLAND.—For the first time in New Zealand a man was imprisoned for a black market property deal. He was Arthur…
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SYDNEY. — In the Central Court yesterday, Reginald James Kitching (27), a former prisoner of war, was remanded until February…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Aborigines Arrested on Murder Charges
Darwin, February 16.—Two aborigines have been charged with the murder of two fellow tribesmen on Wessel Island, on the northern shores of Arnhem Land,…
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JOHN ROBERT CHRISTIE, 32, seaman, and Alfred Michael Laffy, 25, salesman, with their solicitor, Mr, G. Osborne (right) as they entered court in Sydney to face a charge of having murdered Arthur Edgar Wall, 27, in a King's Cross flat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fined For Assault On Teacher
Adelaide, February 17—In the Adelaide Police Court today, Eric Ernest Pinch (41), sheet metal worker, of Nailsworth, was fined £25 on a charge,…
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