Sale at Police Station
All unclaimed property it the Police station will be sold on Saturday,May 27, at 11 a.m. Then are a few bikes included at the items for sale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1950
1,229 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 23 of 62
Charged With Theft
A 38 year old man was arrested on Thursday and charged with allegedly stealing a large quantity of blue metal from the City Council's crushing plant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Arrest on Charges of Theft; Mar Before Court
As a result of police inquiries into several robberies from a local shop and from the premises of a construction company, employees of an Argent St. hardware firm have been charged with stealing…
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A bicycle alleged stolen in October, 1948, has been recovered by the police and a youth has been charged with theft…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Arrested When Boarding Train Police Prefer Theft Charges
Recent detailed inquiries by local police officers came to a successful conclusion on Friday when a number of quick arrests were made. Three men were charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threatened Police
Sydney, May 28.—Three policemen said last night that a man whom they arrested in a house in Provincial Road. Lindfield had threatened to shoot them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three School Students Admit Murder
Long Beach, California, May 28.— Three high school students who modelled their behavior on criminals in detective stories had admitted the hold-up and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Haul Of Pearls
Sydney. — Four sugar bags full of pearls wen seized by Customs Officers on the freighter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Dropped Husband to Death; Police Story
New York, May 28.—Mrs. Anna Bornhoidt (58), was charged with murder today after the police accused her of having dropped her paralysed husband to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge Appeals to Sports to Settle Outside the Court
Sydney.—In the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court Judge Berne asked two cyclists to settle their differences outside the Court "in a sporting manner." Gino Bamfoagiotti, bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Asylum Men Charged
Perth.—Five male attendants of the Claremont Mental Hospital have been charged under the Lunacy Act with ill-treating…
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San Franciso, May 29—Three high-school students have admitted at Long Beach (Cal) that they had held up and murdered a liquor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Police March
Berlin, May 29.—Five years after the collapse of Hitler's Reich a new army seemed likely to complete the hat trick in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaieties at Police Boys Club
On Wednesday night at the Police Boys Club the "Silver City Gaieties" will again present their successful show "High Steppin." the proceeds being for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local Police Capture Berrima Escapees Revolver Point Arrest 6 Miles From The City
Three young men who escaped from the Berrima Training Centre early on Sunday morning and allegedly stole a Prisons' Department truck were recaptured by local police about six miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Husband Charged with Wife Murder
Newcastle.—A wood machinist, aged 28, was charged today with the murder of his attractive young wife, whose naked body, with a belt tied round the throat, was found on a vacant allotment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Police Recapture Berrima Gaol Escapees Early Morning Gunpoint Arrest Long Wait In Rain At Road Block
After being at large since early Sunday morning, three young men who escaped from the Berrima goal, were captured at revolver point by two local police officers in the early hours of yesterday morning. The men were arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dropped Husband To Death Murder Charge Laid
New York. May 30.—Mrs. Anna Bornholdt (58) was charged with murder after police accused her of dropping her paralysed husband to his death from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£8,250 Theft Alleged Money Muting In Sydney Hotel Deal
Sydney, May 30.—In the Central Police Court it was aliened that half a brick and two tollet rolls were substituted for 11,250 in a cash box in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search for London Killer
London, May 30.—Police today got their first lead in the manhunt for a "sad-faced foreigner" who they believed murdered an Irish girl in a Paddington hotel on Saturday morning…
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