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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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Key Money Frauds Four Years Gaol For Man

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney, September 12.— Anthony Hume Henderson (39) salesman, was sentenced to four years gaol in the Quarter Sessions today on four charges…

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Comic Court Fit

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 8

Melbourne.—Comic Court revealed fitness at Caulfield this morning by galloping nine furlongs in 2.3½ on the steeple grass where the flags were out 20 feet…

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Woman Murdered in Flat: Big Police Hunt

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—Police are combing Sydney's underworld for a gunman who murdered 32-year-old Constance McGuire in the bedroom of her Manly flat late last night…

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Dobson In Court Alleged Public Nuisance

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney, Sept. 12.—William Thomas Dobson (22) of Addison Road, Manly, was chanted before Mr. Harris, S.M., in the Central Court today with effecting…

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Uniform Basic Wage Court's Power Not Yet Decided

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

Melbourne, September 12.—The Chief Judge (Mr. Justice Kelly) said in the Full Arbitration Court today that no decision had yet been reached on the…

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Police Make Arrest in Manly Murder Case

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—Closely guarded by the police, Rex Llewellyn Flanagan (33) was charged in Manly Court today with the murder of Connie Margaret McGuire on Monday. He was remanded, without…

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Tax Cases In Police Court (Continued from Page 2)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 7

In the Police Court today Mr. A. N. Bott, S.M., fined John Watson £10, with £1/10/ costs, for failure to furnish a taxation return for the year ended June 30, 1945…

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Man Gaoled For Stealing Numerous Previous Convictions

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 3

Frederick Jackson (29) appeared before Mr. A. N. Bott, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, to answer a charge of stealing an overcoat, a…

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Sex Drug Men Charged In Sydney

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney, September 13.—James Pignatoria (28), paper layer of Victoria Street. Darlinghurst and Charles Borg (36), wharf laborer, of Cathedral…

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Distraught Husband Attacked Wife, Say Police

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney. September 13, — Desmond Atha Renton (26), was committed for trial in the Redfern Court today on a charge of maliciously wounding his…

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Police Dragnet for Manly Murderer Also Search For Second Man

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney, September 13.—More than 60 C.I.B. detectives. are prepared to shoot it out if necessary with the murderer of 32-year-old streetwalker Mrs. Constance McGuire who died at Manly last night with a bullet in her chest. All police in…

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Man Voluntarily Goes To Police Station Charged With Woman's Murder

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 2

Sydney. September 14—Rex Lewfellyn Flannagan (33), cook, was remanded until September 22 at Manly Court today on a charge of having murdered…

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Murder victim

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 1

CONSTANCE McGUlRE, who was found murdered in a Manly flat. A man has been charged with the crime…

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Court Sequel to Accident

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 10

Arising out of an accident in Oxide Street on July 29, Angus B. Wakefield appeared in the Police Court yesterday charged with…

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Charged With Delaying Miners' Claim Hearing Coalowners Representative Criticised By Mr. Gallagher

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 1

Sydney, September 14.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today criticised a coalowners' representative for delaying the hearing of the Miners' claim for a 35 hours…

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Court Sequel to Capsize of Car

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 6

More evidence in a part-heard charge of negligent driving against Kenneth R. Ellis was tendered in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. A. N. Bott, S.M. The charge resulted from an…

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Case on State Prices Controls To Be Stated Before High Court

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 2

Sydney. September 14.—Mr. Isles. S M., has teen asked to state the case probably before the High Court. on his decision which invalidated certain State…

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Heavy Penalties For "Brutal, Unprovoked" Assault

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

Sydney, September 15.—Two men were today sentenced to five years Imprisonment and a third to three years for "brutal and unprovoked" assault on…

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Two Years of Gaol For This

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

Melbourne September 15.—After serving two years at Long Bay Gaol Sydney, for housebreaking Edward Claude Rankin (21) laborer, walked to the…

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Charged With Patricide Family Trouble At Wellongong

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

Sydney, September 15.—Maxwell Evatt Timothy (24), shunter, of Crown St., Wollongong, who was remanded in Wollongong Court today until…

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