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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime
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Canberra, December 31.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzics, and Sir Owen Dixon, Justice of the High Court of Australia, are two of the eighty-one prominent Australians included in the 1951 New Year's honors list. The award of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melb.—A 54-years-old laborer was last nigh charged with the murder of his step-brother, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne, January. 2.—David, Eccles (54) was remanded in the City Court today until January 9 on a charge of murdering his step-brother. William…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adelaide, January 2.—The final yesterday the South Australian tennis championship between American and Australian titleholder…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tokio (AAP-Reuter), January 2.—A rampaging, crushing vanguard of more than 200,000 artillery-supported Chinese and Korean Communists swarming over their own dead have driven two deep holes in the United Nations line north of Seoul…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A 29-year-old fencer who was ftund guilty in the Tibooburra Police Court on New Year's Day of having assaulted Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney.—More than 300 people were convicted last year for taking wild flowers from Kuringai Chase, Mr. C. C. Burnside said. Mr. Burnside, oresident of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne.—A 21-years-old mother (Shirley Rose Miller, of Buxton) was last night charged with the murder of her two children. One of the dead children was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There will be a silling of the Supreme Court in Broken Hill on September 4. Dates set for the sittings of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A 28-year-old laborer was remanded until January 30 on a charge of murder when he appeared before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M., in the Police Court todav…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne.—Police last night charged William Dunstan (41) with the murder of his sister (Mrs. Grace White) in the kitchen of her cafe at Swan Hill yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne, January 3.—A young married woman screamed and then collapsed in the dock at the City Court today when she was remanded on charges of having murdered her two babies. She was Mrs. Shirley Rose Miller (21), the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A 20 years old fencer who was found guilty in the Tibooburra Police Court on New Years' Day or having assaulted Constable Dohn was sentenced to three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brisbane. — A special meeting of the State Cabinet ordered a police investigation of an election fraud at Bulimba…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although Comic Court did not take kindly, to the Randwick style of galloping when taken over as a three-year-old he is to be given another…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney, January 4.—Already charged with two murders Ronald Newman Cribbin (21), [?] today appeared at Central Court on a further charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, January 4.—Cabinet decided today that police must immediately investigate published allegations by a Sydney journalist that patients are being ill-treated at Callan Park Mental Hospital. If the charges are substantiated, criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney.—Ronald Newman Cribbin (21), was charged in Central Court with stealing £15,000 worth of jewels belonging to Mrs…
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