Three Months Gaol For Theft Of Money
A 21-year-old laborer, John Adrian Hall, was sentenced to three months Imprisonment for the theft of £17 from a house in South Broken Hill on Saturday…
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Courts & crime, 1953
1,390 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 70
Gaol For Under Influence
Sydney, January 19.—A 42-year-old man, who was said to be undergoing medical treatment for…
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London, Monday.-A stowaway lived for almost a month undetected in the liner Mool tan on her way to Britain from Aus tralia, a London court was told today. The…
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Melbourne.—Police sat on Elwood beach, near Melbourne, for two hours and waited for two naked men…
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Tokio, Monday.—A severe earthquake tremor here in terrupted the hearing of the court martial of the…
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The Communists in Australia and America (and [?] doubt elsewhere in the Western world) are making…
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Cairo.—Gen. Naguib has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences on two Egyptian Army officers accused of taking…
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Inspector John Dogan who has been appointed officer in charge of the Broken Hill, police subdistrict, will arrive…
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New York, Tuesday.—Police fought a gun battle with seven gunmen today, when the intruders were surprised while trying to force a safe in a New York hotel…
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Sydney.—Sydney restaurant owner Sammy Lee appeared in the Licensing Court on a change of…
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Mexico City, Wednesday.—Chinese general, P. T. Mow, swore that he was innocent of a 5,593,899 dollars (about £A.2,500,500) embezzlement charge…
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Melbourne.—Police charged an ex-cross-country jockey under a false name to get him to make a confession of guilt, the man's counsel, Mr. Frank Galbally, alleged in St. Kilda Court…
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Sydney.—A woman in Parramatta Court asked to be sent to gaol after she had refused to pay a 10/ fine…
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"Inquirer".—The use of slug-guns and air guns is covered by a regulation under the Police Offences Act…
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At a function held at the Fire Brigade hall last night local members of the police force farewelled Inspector J. E. Gilroy and welcomed their new inspector,…
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Thieves who entered the shop of Mr. A. Smitheram, Argent Street north, last night stole a quantity of…
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Sydney. — The Prisons Department has transferred William Cecil Mears, 30, from Grafton gaol…
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Darwin. — Counsel for Richards Pryce, on a larceny charge, referred to a statement allegedly made…
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Police fired two warning shots into the air in Oxide Street in the early hours of this morning after calling on an alleged thief to halt…
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