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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne, March 6.—William James Rundle and John Percival Waters were remanded until March 10 at the City Court today on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London. March 7.—The only British woman to be sentenced to death for spying during the war on release from prison a few days ago said the episode…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, March 7. — A man who was convicted of having maliciously shot at his father-in-law with intent to do erevious bodily harm was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra.—As a sequel to the disastrous explosion on board H.M.A.S. Tarakan in Sydney Harbo[?] on January 25, in which eight men were killed and several others injured, two of the ship's officers are to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Canberra. March 8.—Two of the ship's officers of H.M.A.S. Tarakan will be tried by court martial for responsibility for the explosion on the vessel at Garden Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four members of the crew and 14 passengers were killed in the crash. The report tabled in the House of Representatives recommended…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Paris, March 8.—The £49,000 "Marquise" diamond, one of the finest stones stolen from the Aga Khan last August, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney.—The police late last night arrested two men at revolver point as they were leaving a shop at Darlinghurst. Three detectives were driving along McLachlan…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Melbourne, March 10.—A 42-year-old woman who was found guilty on March 6 of the manslaughter of Edna Jean McDonald (30) was sentenced to 18…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New York. March 10.— Former Justice Department employee Judith Coplon and Russian engineer Valentin Gubitehey were yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ca[?] 12.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr.[?] cis) today cited the two naval often who would appear before a Naval court martial in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the monthly court of petty sessions today Robert Charles Capper, who pleaded guilty to stealing eight packets of garden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extending leniency towards a South African who admitted stealing £48 from a safe at Les Radford & Son's office, Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., fined him £7, in default 14 days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →delaide. March 13.—In the Criminal Court today the Chief Justice sentenced Frederick Horace Baldock (42). married, of Maud Street. Unley. who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bonn. March 13.—Britain's High Commissioner in Germany. General Sir Brian Robertson, has demanded punishment for German police who let German…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Belfast, March 13.— A group of fanatical young Irish anil-partitionists, but not the outlawed Irish Republican Army, is thought to have been responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. E. J. Forrest. S.M.. in the Police Court yesterday ordered l9-year-old Robert C. Copper to enter into a bond of £10 to be of good behaviour for 12…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fines totalling £14/1/3 in default 24 days hard labor wire imposed on Arthur H. Spicer in the Police Court yesterday by Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Alfred Compton, 31, laborer, was yesterday committed for trial on a charge of having assaulted Lawrence Alexander Marshall with a crank handle, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm. Compton reserved his defence…
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