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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Police Pass Exam

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 January 1952 · page 8

Three members of the police force in the Broken Hill patrol passed an examination qualifying for…

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Murder Appeal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 1

Adelaide — Counsel for Kazimierz Piekutowski (39), who is under sentence of death for alleged murder,…

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Police Exam Results

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 3

Advice has been received from Sydney that Constables K. Harper (Broken Hill) K. Dead (Tibboburra) and A. F. Patrick…

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Police Capture Killers

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 2

London, Jan. 2.— Two murderers who escaped from Amiens prison were…

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Police Solve 89 Per Cent. Of N.S.W. Murders Figures Released For 1951

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 1

Sydnay, January 3.—Of the 27 murders committed in New South Wales last year police made 24 arrests in connection…

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Allegations of Murder in Camp

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 8

Paris, Jan. 4—The American authorities had murdered Russian displaced persons who wanted to return home from the western refugee camps a Russian delegate…

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Torture By Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 5

New York, January 4. The U.S. Supreme Court condemned the use of a stomach pump to obtain…

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Another Court Challenge

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Sydney. — Another court challenge is planned by the recently elected national secretary of the Ironworkers…

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Australians Arrested by Egypt Police

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 8

Cairo, January 4—The British Embassy and consular officials have taken jp with the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior the case of two Australians arrested in…

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The Appeal Court In East Africa Inauguration By The Lord Chancellor

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 1

Lord Jowitt the Lord Chancellor, recently inaugurated the new Supreme Court of Appeal for East Africa in a ceremony full of local color. The Lord Chancellor administered the judicial oath to the two justices of appeal who have already been appointed, including the first President of the court, Sir Barclay…

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Theft of Taxi

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Three men held up a taxi driver at Baulkham Hills outside Parramatta at…

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Police Recapture Escapees

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 1

Melbourne. January 6.—Jeffrey Hurst (23) and Charles Ryan (21). who escaped from French bland penal settlement last night, were…

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Wilful Murder Alleged Albanians In Qld. Court

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

Brisbane, January 7.—Two Albanians were charged with wilful murder when they appeared in…

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Smash Grab Theft

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

Adelaide.—More than £200 worth of jewellery was stolen last night in the city's second daring…

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Court Sittings

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 2

Notification has been received at the Courthouse of sittings of the Supreme Court and Court of Quarter…

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Increase In Court Cases

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 2

The number of [?] and summons cases heard in the local Court of Petty Sessions in [?]51 rose by 530 over the 1950 total…

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Attempted Murder And Suicide As Couple Packing For Holiday

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

Sydney, January 7.—A Goulburn hotel licensee shot his wife and committed suicide in their hotel bedroom late Saturday night…

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F.I.A. Battle Continues Short And Left Wing Officials In Appeals To Court

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

Sydney, January 7.—Left Wing officials of the Federated Ironworkers Association made application today for an injunction to restrain the Association's National…

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Farmers on Murder Charges

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 4

Brisbane.—Two Albanian farmers appeared in Atherton Tableland courts each charged with having…

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Police Search For Naked Man

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

Sydney. January 8.—Chatswood police an searching for a naked man who indecently assaulted two young boys in dense bush at East…

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