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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

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Police Court. Aboriginals Charged. Strong Remarks by Bench

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 7

In the Grafton Police Court on Thursday morning before the P.M. (Mr. W. B. Geddes), Duncan Long (37), a, laborer and an aboriginal, was charged with…

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Alleged Assault. Accused in Court. Remanded Until

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 4

In the Police Court at Grafton yesterday morning, before the P.M. (Mr. W. B. Geddes), Charles James Rolls, of Cooper street, Marrickville, Sydney, and Edward…

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Telegrams Serious Assault Case. Dying Depositions Taken. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 4

At the Red[?]ern Court to-day James Sterling (53) was charged with having assaulted Charles Donnelly, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm. The…

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Boulder on Railway. Police Capture Boys. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 July 1923 · page 5

Small boys placed a large stone, weighing about half a hundredweight, on the rails near Dundas railway station. The driver of the train saw the…

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Coogee Murder. Was the Body in a Trunk? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 July 1923 · page 3

The police received a letter yesterday suggesting that the body of Mrs. Gertrude Heaydon was not buried in a cabin trunk, but in a grave, supposed to be that of…

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Alleged Assault

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 3

Ernest Slater (21) and Charles James Roll (41) again appeared charged with using actual bodily harm to John Kenneally, racecourse detective, on the…

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Coogee Murder. Police Find One Trunk. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 5

One of two trunks which the police believe were removed from the house in Wommerah Avenue. Darlinghurst, in September last, was found in an hotel in…

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Grafton Police Court. "A Source of Danger."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 3

John Reginald Godfrey (40), commercial traveller, pleaded guilty at Grafton Court yesterday to driving a motor car in Through street, South Grafton, on…

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Telegrams. Art Exhibition. Charged Amusement Tax. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 5

Considerable indignation exists in Sydney art circles because the Federal Taxation Department classed the European Art Exhibition an amusement and enforced…

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QUEENSLAND. Boll Weevil in Territory. Rockhampton Burglary Case. Money in Cotton. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 5

Information has been received in Brisbane that the boll weevil has been discovered in the Northern Territory. The Queensland cotton adviser, Mr. Evans,…

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A.W.U. TICKETS. Charge Against M.L.C. an Organiser's Evidence. Theft Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 5

Thomas Januarius Smith, M.L.C., again appeared in the summons division of the Central Court to answer an information sworn by Mr. Lambert, M.H.R., with…

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Jewel Robberies. Warren's Wipe Sentenced. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 July 1923 · page 5

Reuter's special Paris correspondent says Mrs. Warren, wife of Warren who was arrested in Paris on a charge of beings concerned in extensive…

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"Not Married." Canadian Court Edict

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 July 1923 · page 6

That marriages performed by clergymen who are not British subjects are illegal is the ruling at the Superior Court of Montreal…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 July 1923 · page 1

At Maclean on Wednesday morning before Mr. R. W. S. Kelly, J.P., Kenzie Laurie was present in custody and charged with, that he did, on July 23, 1923,…

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Police and Strikers. Exciting Scenes at Docks. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 July 1923 · page 5

Exciting scenes occurred to-night at the Royal Albert docks when thousands of strikers attempted to prevent 25 meat vans from entering the docks…

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Belgium the Pivot. Dealing With Germany. Bloodshed and Murder. Bolshevik Outbreaks. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 July 1923 · page 5

"The Times" Paris correspondent says while it is believed that France and Belgium are earnestly desirous of an agreement it is not yet known…

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Mandated Territory Inquiry. Ex-magistrate Appointed, Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1923 · page 5

The Federal Government has appointed Mr. A. S. Canning, ex-Magistrate of West Australia, to conduct an inquiry regarding the allegation of forced labor and flogging…

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Police Court. Hindoo in Trouble Stealing Shirt and Trousers

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 2

In the Grafton Police Court on Friday morning, before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M., John Hindra (40) was charged with stealing two shirts and two pairs of…

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Murder Charge. Young Woman's Death. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

Abraham Meyer Hart, a chemist, was charged at Newcastle Police Court with the in Order of Cecilia May O'Brien, second sister on the staff of the Kurri Kurri…

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Grafton Police Court. Drunk and Disorderly

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 1

The list of cases for attention at the Grafton Police Court yesterday was not disposed of until 3 o'clock. The Bench was occupied by the Police…

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