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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

1,386 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 23 of 70

Murder in the Solomons. Trader Killed by Natives. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1925 · page 2

Private advices have reached Sydney from the Solomon Group reporting the murder of a British trader named Scott, who was in charge of a…

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Printers' Award Court Grants Increase. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1925 · page 5

Judgment was delivered by the Deputy President of the Federal Arbitration Court on the application of the Printing Industry Employees Union for an award…

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Serious Losses by Cattle Stealing

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 4

For a considerable time past there have been serious complaints of cattle stealing in this district, particularly in the far northern end of the Tenterfield Shire…

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Crowborough Murder. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 5

The Crowborough Magistrate remanded George Jeffrey, 15, charged with the murder of Joan Annett. The police obtained a committal order…

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Illegal Strike Unionists Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 4

In the Industrial Arbitration Court to-day Morts Dock Engineering Co Ltd., proceeded against the Federated Society of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders'…

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£200 in Notes Blackmail Alleged Police Took Numbers. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 4

Frederick Harrison and William Ferrie were committed for trial at Flemington Police Court on a charge of having demanded from Alfred Gill the sum of £200…

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Five Injured. At Police Carnival. Sensational Ending Tin of Benzine Explodes. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 4

The night carnival in connection with the Police Art Union, to augment the funds for the hospitals, ended in a sensational manner to-night. A lengthy…

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Knife Wounds Cronulla Stabbing "I Will Tell the Mob" Foreigner for Trial on Murder Charge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 4

An inquest was opened to-day concerning the death of Lancelot Ramsay, or Jules Regnaud, at Cronulla. Samuel Papparys,. 39, described as a…

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Vernon Sentenced Twelve Years for Shooting Bent. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 4

Howard Vernon, who was found guilty of the manslaughter of William Bent, at Lilydale, has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment…

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Murder Charge. Raves Again Remanded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 1

Cecil Raves was further remanded at the Central Court to-day till Monday next on a charge of having murdered Florence Quirk at Redfern…

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Plot Abroad. to Murder Foreign Secretary Official Circles Silent. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 5

It is reported that a plot has been discovered abroad to assassinate Mr. Austen Chamberlain. Official circles in London decline to make a statement at…

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Police Hoaxed Story of Daring Hold-up. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 5

The police search for a supposed bandit ceased to-day when William Beatty, who had told a sensational story of hold-up and robbery, made a further statement, in…

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Afraid of Her Life. Mumtaz Startles Court Alleges Baby Was Murdered. Bombay

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 5

That Mumtaz Begum was anxious to escape from the Maharajah of Indore, not because she wanted to leave the Maharajah, but to take away the Indore…

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Guests' Clothes Woman Charged with Theft. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 5

The police have arrested the proprietress of a city residential in connection with the alleged theft of property belonging to visitors staying on the…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 4

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning before Messrs. E. Avery and F. Vaughan, J.'sP., William Tarrant pleaded guilty to having used indecent language…

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Boxer in Trouble Theft of Jewellery Alleged. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 7

Leo Garrick, 25, appeared in court to-day charged with breaking into a shop and stealing a quantity of jewellery, valued at £90, the property of Norman…

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Girls Assaulted Police Make Arrests. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 5

Shortly after midnight the city police patrol were informed that a girl, aged 15, employed as a domestic at a house in Homebush, had been assaulted while…

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Police Art Union. First Prize to Nimbin Woman

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 2

The first prize in the Police Art Union, a Vauxhall car, valued at £1250, was won by Mrs. M. Jardine, of Nimbin…

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State V Teachers High Court Appeal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 7

In the High Court to-day, the Chief Justice said the appeal of the State of New South Wales against the order of the Registrar of Federated State School…

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News of the World. Police Disturb Communists. New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 5

Ten Communist meetings were broken up by police of the "bomb" squad. Fifty officers drove members into the street and confiscated May, Day literature…

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