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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1920

1,245 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 34 of 63

The Prince. a Calm Voyage. Appreciative Messages. Extra Pay for the Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 June 1920 · page 3

In accordance with promise, the Renown, on passing Kiama, hove to, and played her searchlights on the town for half an hour, to the great delight of the…

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Brooklyn Burglars Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 5

Donald McDonald and Ernest Drury, who were found guilty of having housebreaking tools in their possession at Brooklyn, were sentenced to three years…

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Carried Off From Gaol. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 5

"The Times" Dublin correspondent reports that a hundred armed men broke into goal and carried off Councillor Francis Carty, a Sinn Feiner, who was awaiting…

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Grafton Police Court. Monday, June 28, 1920. (Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P. M.) Language and Police Resistance

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Robert Cecil Wells pleaded, guilty to a charge of having used indecent language in Through street, South Grafton, on June 27. In entering his plea defendant stated…

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Recurrence of Food Rioting. Police Disperse Crowds. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 5

Reuter 's Berlin correspondent states that Herr Noske has been appointed President of Hanover. There is a recurrence of food rioting in…

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Bellingen District Court. Friday, June 25, 1920. (Before his Honor, Judge White)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 3

The Bar was represented by Messrs. R. J. Browning, J. Young and R. A. Toose. The solicitors present were Messrs. Howard Marks (Bellingen), Macpherson…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, Chairman, and Mr. D. McFarlane, L. M.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Joseph Ellis was granted a renewal of the license of the Royal Hotel, Glutton, annual assessment £116. licensee fee £20. Conley Fane McKenzie was granted a…

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Alleged Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 5

Ellenore Brown (63), a nurse, was charged at the Central Police Court with feloniously and maliciously murdering Alice Currie, at Kensington. Mr. Abigail,…

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Union Sues Member. Strike Levy or Gaol

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 1

In the Broken Hill police court on Friday afternoon F. R. Campbell, secretary of the Broken Hill branch of the Federated Boiler Makers' Society,…

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A Man Shot. Alleged Attempted Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 4

William Holman, 57, stated to be a swagman, was shot in the abdomen near the fourteen-mile peg on the Chatsworth-Woodburn road, on Monday, the nature…

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Police Unionists. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 3

A section of the members of the New South Wales police force have decided to form a union which it is probable will apply to the State…

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A Police Union. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 5

A section of the members of the New South Wales police force have decided to form a union, which probably will apply to the State Industrial Court for an…

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Recognising the Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 3

The Chief Secretary stated to-day he had written the Inspector-General of Police expressing high appreciation of the manner in which the notice performed their duties…

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Police Union Unlikely. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 3

The Inspector-General of Police stated to-day that he had heard nothing about the formation of a police union. Other officers stated that the police are not even…

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Coroner's Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 3

At the inquest into the death of Norman Byrnes, a returned soldier, at Concord, Linda Byrnes, the widow, said her husband asked her to go the Repatriation…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court. July 2, 1920. (Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 5

Hugh Delaney, drunk; fined 5, or three hours. Patrick Fitzpatrick, drunk; fined 5, or three hours…

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Ulmarra Appeal Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 4

The above Court, which was postponed from last month, will now sit at Ulmarra on Wednesday morning next, when several appeals against the Council's valuations…

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Security Police in Prussia. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 5

Router's Berlin correspondent reports that Herr Severing, Prussian Foreign Minister for the Interior, states that he will refuse to disband the security police…

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More Shooting. Explosion at Police Barracks. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 5

A Cork message states that indiscriminate shooting, outside the King street police barracks brought a constable to the door, whereupon he was fired on. The…

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In Hunland. Question of Police Equipment. London, Thursday Night

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 5

A Berlin correspondent says that Severing, the Prussian Foreign Minister and Minister for the Interior, states that he refuses to disband the…

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