Police Patrolling B.H.P. Works
Newcastle.—Police are are patrolling outside the B.H.P. steelworks and Lysaghts sheet metal…
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Courts & crime, 1951
1,219 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 61
Court Action Re Exiled Aborigine
Melbourne, February 19.—In the High Court today Mr. Justice Pulinger said that he had no power to make an original for writ of habeas corpus to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Accident Toll Increases Police Prosecutions Also Show Upward Trend
From a total of 77 accidents, in which persons were either injured of damage of more than £10 was caused, in 1947 the figure jumped to 175 last year. Already in the seven weeks of 1951 there hove been 48…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Evidence Given In Assault Case
Preliminary evidence was given in the Police Court yesterday in an assault charge brought by John Lallas against John Paradise. A cross-suit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft of Meat Man Fined £8
James McMurray Allan was fined £8 in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E.J. Forest, S.M., for the theft of some join chops from a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aussie Charged With Illegal Entry Of Japan
Tokio (A.A.P.-Reuter). February 20.— A 25-year-old Australian, kenneth William Gibbons yesterday was remanded in Tokio District Court until March 5…
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Brisbane.—Dismissed from the police force after 30 years' service, a former sub-inspector, Mr. W. T. Reedman, claims he has been…
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An assault charge by John Lallas against John Paradice, was opened by Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Murder Admission By Deaf Mute Broke Down Under Siga Interrogation
Atlanta. Georgia, February 20.— Detectives today reported that Allen Jones (30), deaf mute, had admitted under questioning by a deaf and dumb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women On Strike In Steel Industry Police Patrol Plants
Newcastle, February 20. —For the second day running Mrs. Alice Buck. Turton Road, Waratah, has defied strike orders by women members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Confession by Deaf Mute
New York, February 21.—A deaf-mute admitted to a deaf-mute clergyman that he had strangled another deafmute. The clergyman (Rev. Theodore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →18 Months Gaol For Manslaughter
Sydney, February 23.—Yesterday Judge Curlewis sentenced a 44-year-old carrier to 13 months gaol for manslaughter. The carrier, Thomas William Stanton, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Eating Of Boy After Torture Africans On Ritual Murder Charge
Bromersdorp, February 23—A 12 years old African boy Sollnye was chained to a fig tree for nine months until he became a living skeleton. Then he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Committed Adultery On Husband's Instructions Woman's Evidence In Divorce Court
Sydney, February 25.—A woman said in the Sydney Divorce Court that she had twice committed adultery, once to offset a money debt of her husband's…
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London, Judge Thomas Richardson passed sentence—seven years' preventive detention. The defending barrister rose. "The past history of this man does not entitle the Bench to take that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Shock For Motorists; Police Warning
Sydney.—People who allowed motorists to drive while under the influence were themselves liable to imprisonment the police traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Victim of Ritual Death, Court Is Told
Bremersdorp, (Swaziland), February 26—Five Swaziland Africans have been sent for trial here on a charge of ritual murder. It is alleged that a 12-year-old…
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London, Feb. 27. — Monmouth. police said that they did not suspeet murder in the case of Australian-born Miss Eanbara…
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Alice Springs.—About 100 halfcaste children stayed away from the Alice Springs School On Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Czech to Die for Treason Gaol Sentences For Others
Frague. February 27.—The State Court sentenced one Czechoslovak to death and several others to prison from eighteen months to twenty-five…
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