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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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Former policeman Edward J. Walsh pleaded not guilty in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., to a charge of having occasioned actual bodily harm to Allan Marshall Maxton. The charge arose from an alleged attack by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney, February 16.—Police are intensifying their drive on Sydney's underworld. This warning "to crooks of every class" was issued today by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For assaulting Alon Marshall Maxton and occasioning actual bodily harm to him, Edward John Walsh, former police constable, was remanded to appear at the Quarter Sessions on February 28, by Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., in the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Police Court yesterday Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., dismissed two charges, one of negligent driving, the other of failing to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin, February 17:—Three Convicts, who escaped last Saturday from Ballgrat Goal, were recaptured at pistol point by police at Deniliquin today. They are James Bretherton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne, February 17. — Charged with the attempted murder of his mother, a man is alleged to have told the police "Christ told me to do it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the Police Court today charges of assault preferred by two men against each others were adjourned until March 16…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Melbourne.—After a retirement of 40 minutes a jury in the Criminal Court found former Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney.—Part of a human skeleton found in a creek bed on the Grenfell Road, near Young, has revived police interest in one of the State's most puzzling murder mysteries…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney.—Railway detectives said they had "cracked" a huge racket in bottled beer, 200,000 bottles of which had been stolen from trains…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelaide.—This morning the Port Adelaide police dramatically stopped a utility vand took possession of 30 ingots of lead, suspected to have been stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney.—The man whose body was found floating in the water near Glebe Island wharf might have been murdered and then his body might have been thrown into Sydney Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Berlin, February 19.—A large scale plot against Stallin, led by Marshal Gororov, has been detected by Soviet secret police in Lenigrad, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelaide. February 20.—Having been previously convicted for previous offences, John Gault Mundy (35), driver, of Military Road, Semaphore, was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tokio (AAP-Reuter). february 20.— Twenty-six Japanese war crimnal subject held at Sugamo prison in Tokio have been charged with the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide.—The facts of the case in the main would be undisputed, he expected the defence would raise the question of insanity, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Kearnan) told the jury when opening the Hutt St. murder…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comic Court gave Royal Oak three lengths start and defeated him by a length and a half over nine furlongs in 2.½2 on the steeple grass at Caulfield to-day. Hurdles were 30ft. from the rails, but Comic Court was 45ft out. He kept a sound pace throughout, running the first seven furlongs in 1.35 and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The case of George F. Egan, who was charged with having driven a motor vehicle in Bonanza Street of February 6 whilst under the influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne, February 20.—John Bryan Kerr (25), radio announcer, was committed for trial by the City Coroner today on a charge of having murdered Elizabeth Maureen Williams. The semi-nude body of the girl was found near the water's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, February 19.—Ex-internee Lars Gustav Brundahl, who is serving a four years goal sentence for conspiring to assault a returned soldier and his wife, was ordered by a Supreme Court jury on Friday to pay them £5,142 damages. The…
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