Audacious Theft
Phoenix (Arizona), February 9.— Two robbers carrying a garbage can containing 116,250 dollars walked out of a bank early yesterday and got away…
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Courts & crime, 1950
1,229 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 62
Young Tramway Man in Court Attempted Murder Alleged
Sydney, February 9.—A young tramway employee was remanded without hall at Paddington Court today until February 23 on a charge of attempting to murder…
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Adelaide.—Three months' imprisonment and a fine of £50 each were imposed on Ernest…
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Adelaide.—Phillip Trythall Horton (37), of 66 Charles Street, Norwood, was committed for trial by the Deputy City Coroner (Mr. P…
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Sydney.—Armed police raided several houses and hotels in the city and southern country towns last night in their search for the escaped convicts— Darcy Dugan and William Mears…
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Sydney, February 9.—A Sydney barrister was alleged in the State Full Court yesterday to have consorted with criminals and was called on to show cause…
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Adelaide, February 10.—The Deputy City Coroner (Mr. Teesdale Smith) yesterday committed for trial Phillip Trythall Horton (37), of Charles Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Months Gaol for Racing Conspirators Sentence Passed In S.A. Bribe Case
Adelaide, February 10.—In the Criminal Court today Ernest Ambrose Potter (43), plasterer of Parkside, and Timothy Bonaventure McMahon (60) letterpress…
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Sydney, February 10.—A close watch for escapes Darcy Dugan and William Mears was kept at road blocks on the Hume Highway between Goulburn…
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Burglars who entered Frank Griff's furniture and hardware store in the early hours of Saturday morning failed in an attempt to blow the…
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The monthly sitting of the Police Court will open at the Courthouse tomorrow. A varied list of cases has been…
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Members of the local police force took port in a mannequin parade today as they took delivery of a new issue of uniforms…
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Melbourne, February 13. —Norman Edwin Bradshaw, one of the two men charged on Tuesday last with attempting to murder John Gilligan with a…
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Melbourne, February 13.—A man who had been living with a woman and is accused of having poisoned her with cyanide was committed for trial today by…
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LAURENCE LOUIS SHARKEY, Australian Communist Party general secretary, was handcuffed when he arrived at court in Sydney on Friday to appeal against a sentence of three years for sedition. His case has been adjourned said Friday…
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Edward J. Walsh was charged in the Police Court today with having occasioned actual bodily harm to Allan Marshall Maxton in Hebbard Street on January 28. Mr. E. K. Forrest, S.M., was on the bench…
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Auckland.—Armed police are today searching for a man suspected of the murder of Frederick Stanley Hodson (59),…
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Albert Leslie Trengrove appeared in the Police Court yesterday on four charges, including two of assaulting the police. The cases were adjourned…
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Sydney, February 15.—A 61 years old man was aliened In the Supreme Court yesterday to have hired four thugs to bash Herbert Dell (50), carpenter, and…
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Sydney, February 15.—Her husband and his girl friend had thrashed her for hours hours in a barred room, Mrs. Nora Gardner (formerly Carroll) told the…
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