Theft From A.n.a
A sum of money was stolen from the office of Australian National Airways, Argent Street, on Monday night…
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Courts & crime, 1950
1,229 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 62
Damages Settled Out of Court
A claim for damaged by Alan J. Burke against Leonard H. Robinson was mentioned at the District Court yesterday before Judge Berne. It was settled out…
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James Henry Ingleden, 33-years-old English immigrant, appealed against his jail sentence; but a surprise awaited him. In the Criminal Appeals Court…
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Sydney. February 28.—On Friday police gave evidence in the Central Court that a man who forged bookmaker Jack Mandel's signature to a £6,960 cheque was…
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Holding off a strong challenge from Bonny Duke, Spitfire gained a narrow victory in the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday. Henry the Fifth was a good third and outsiders filled the placing. The popular fancies were "never in the…
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Dubbo, March 1.—A married man who became friendly with a 16 years old girl of Coonaharabran and went with her to Bourke, where they lived as man and…
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Adelaide—Allegations that a 60-year-old woman had drowned her unmarried daughter's…
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After a brief deliberation a jury yesterday found Edward John Walsh, former police officer, not guilt of a charge of assault. The case was heard in the District Court by Judge F. W. Berne who acquitted the accused with the warning to stay…
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Robert Henry Kendall was charged by Catherine Kendall before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M., today, with assault…
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Canberra, March 2.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis) said in the House or Representatives today that arrangements had been made to store…
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Sydney, March 2.—An owner and mortgagor of a 22 ton vessel denied alterations made in the Supreme Court that they had deliberately…
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Adelaide, March 2.—A sensational story of the alleged killing of a newly born baby at Apamurra, 9 miles from Mannum, was told in Mannum Police Court by Detective Harvey today when charges were laid against a laborer, his wife and…
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Melbourne.—As a sequel to the death of Mervyn Batten(30), in St. Vincent's Hospital early yesterday, from a bullet wound,…
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After an accident at the intersection of Argent and Oxide Streets last night a man was charged at the police station with driving under the influence…
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Adelaide, March 3.—The Chief Justice of the Criminal Court today ordered the two years imprisonment of Mychajlo Furyk (36), a Bait laborer, for having,…
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Sydney, March 3. —A challenge was made today to the validity of the ballot for the election of officers of the N.S.W. branch of the six sub-branches of the…
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Sydney.—The wife of a police constable was arrested early this morning and was charged with shooting at her husband with his…
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Sydney, March 5. — A salesman was sentenced to one month in gaol at Paddington Court on Friday for spitting in his wife's face. He is Ernest David…
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For the first time, British criminal investigation headquarters at Scotland Yard have helped make a full length film…
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Brisbane.—Detectives believe that Mrs. Ruth Long (65), leader of the religious sect Rosicrucians, tied weights to her own legs and an arm and threw herself into a creek to drown on Friday…
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