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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

1,083 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 55

Typewriter or Tennis Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 4

The Murwillumbah Parents and Citizens' Association has been sorely exercised as to whether the tennis courts should be improved or a typewriter…

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Melbourne Police Raid. Supposed Gaming House. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 1

Plainclothes police raided a house at the corner of Easy and Gold streets, Collingwood, yesterday afternoon and arrested William Gordon on a charge of…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · page 4

Charles Alex (57) was charged before Mr. Geddes, Police Magistrate, yesterday morning with being found drunk in Victoria street on Saturday. Defendant…

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Serious Assault Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · page 5

Dudley Grounds (35) was remanded at the General Court to-day on a charge of vagrancy. The police prosecutor stated the charge was connected with a…

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League of Nations' Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · page 5

The statute of the [?] International justice, approved by the League of Nations in 1920, provi[?] member of the court shall be [?] from…

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A Year's Gaol Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 2

A taxi driver who killed a woman in Queen street, Auckland, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment…

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Bogus Doctor. Woman Sentenced an Old Offender. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 4

At the Darlinghurst Session to-day Olive Brownlow, 32, who had pleaded, guilty to a charge of passing a value less cheque for £32 at Petersham and…

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New Rules. in Arbitration Court. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 2

Mr. Justice Powers stated in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration that his colleagues on the bench had decided to submit…

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Ph.lippine Rebels. Police Shoot Forty-six. Manila

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 5

For some weeks past a number of fanatical Moros have been gathering in the rocky strongholds on Mount. Gurayn, Lake Lanao and Mindanao,…

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Federal Arbitration. New Rules for Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 1

Justice Powers stated in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration that his colleagues on the bench had decided to submit new rules and…

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Bellingen District Court. Coff's Harbor Cases. (Before Judge Meratta.) FRANK v. GILLETT

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 2

Charles J. Frank, of Coramba, sued Edward Gillett, of [?] Harbor, for the recovery of £50, the price of 100 bags of corn supplied by plain iff Mr…

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Teachers and Arbitration. Going to Federal Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 August 1923 · page 5

The president of the New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation denies the published report that the motion deciding to register under the Federal…

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Trunk Mystery. Sensational Evidence. Heaydon Committed. Alleged Story to Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 August 1923 · page 5

The case in which Al[?]red Heaydon was charged in connection with the Coogeo mystery was again before the Central Police Court this morning…

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Evangelist Sentenced. Seven Years for Assault. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 August 1923 · page 5

Abraham Lind, evangelist and missioner, whose arrest at Dunedin an nine charges of indecent assault and rape caused a sensation, has been…

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Ulmarra Police Court. Wednesday, August 8, 1923. (Before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 August 1923 · page 3

J. Newman charged with being found drunk in River street, Ulmarra, on 14723, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10 with 8 costs…

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Humor in Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1923 · page 3

Sometimes the solemnity of a court of justice is disturbed by a humorous saying by a witness or a sally by the judge or counsel…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1923 · page 1

The following cases were dealt with by the P.M., Mr. W. B Geddes, on Thursday:-- Dan O'Connell pleaded guilty to a…

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The World's Court. United States Participation. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1923 · page 3

Mr. Harvey, American Ambassador in London, who is visiting The United States, discussed with Mr. Coolidge before leaving Washington for…

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Coogee Mystery. Police Court Proceedings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 5

The charges against Ellen Kreigher, Edward Riley, Frank Stanbury, Wallis Taylor, and Alfred Heaydon in connection with the Coogee mystery were…

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Court-martial Sentences. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 5

The French court-martial sentenced two of the directors of the Badische Aniline dyeworks to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of one hundred…

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