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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

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Non-union Labor. High Court Decision .Employer Liable in Dispute. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 5

The High Court, sitting in Sydney, held to-day that under the Federal Arbitration Act an employer who engaged nonunion labor could be a party to an…

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Twin Brothers. Girl Marries Wrong One. Remarkable London Case Story in Divorce Court. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 5

Harold Beaver, 23, a caterer, married a girl of 19 at London in 1923. At the wedding reception the bride was seen weeping in the corridor with the…

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Germans Sentenced French War Council's Inquiry. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 3

At Namur the War Council tried, 25 German officers in connection with the war-time deaths of 900 residents. The Council sentenced to death 18 of the…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 4

Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court, yesterday morning, Frank Lynch, who did not appear to answer a charge of drunkenness, was ordered…

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Mrs. Quirk's Death. a Bloodstained Tomahawk the Coroner's Inquiry Aves to Be Tried on Murder Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 4

The inquest commenced to-day concerning the death of Florence Quirk, at Redfern, on the night of March 12, on which date her daughter, Alice, was also…

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"Suspected Person." Well Known Ex-boxer Charged. Orange

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 5

"Kid" Lewis, well known as a former boxer at the Stadium, and now attached to a side show touring the west, has been arrested and charged with being a…

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Trial Stopped. Murder Case Sensation Letter for Jury. Paris

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 5

Just as the trial was about to begin of Jean Acke, a commercial traveller, who is charged with murdering, a wineshop-keeper at Lille, a man rushed in and…

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Cafe Hands Court Grants Injunction. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 4

An injunction to return to work was served by the Arbitration Court on the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union on Saturday…

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Widening Park Street. High Court's Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 5

The Sydney High Court to-day unanimously dismissed the appeal of the Criterion Theatres, Ltd., against the judgment of the State Full Court, upholding…

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Theft of Radium. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 May 1925 · page 5

The theft of valuable quantity of radium is reported from Melbourne Hospital, being the third case of its kind within a period. The committee…

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Police Officer's Honor Vindicated

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 6 May 1925 · page 4

Some two months ago, much comment and censure was passed on Constable Carmichael, erstwhile member of the Tenterfield police forse, later…

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Public Servants. Access to Arbitration Court. Explanatory Circulars. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 6 May 1925 · page 2

The National-Progressive Coalition party has issued a circular to its endorsed candidates outlining the reasons which influenced the Government…

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Stolen Cars. Receivers of Parts Sentenced at Darlinghurst. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1925 · page 5

At Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Ernest Joseph Coffer and Bert Eric Coggins were sentenced to two and three years imprisonment respectively on a…

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Maryborough Murder Accused Committed. Maryborough (Qld.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1925 · page 4

At the Maryborough Police Court to-day Richard Thomas was committed for trial charged with wilfully murdering Mrs. Jessie Lenthall, whose throat, he slashed with…

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Lenient Jury. Assault on Constable Well-deserved Sentences. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1925 · page 5

William Timmins, Norman Timmins, and Alice Patterson were charged with having attempted to murder Constable Pincott. The evidence showed that…

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Telephone for Ulmarra Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 4

After years and years of fruitless agitation by the Ulmarra Municipal Council and other public bodies with the Police Department to have telephone connection…

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Scalp Stealing

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., Ernie Edwards pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen four dingo scalps, of the value…

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Despicable Assault. on a Little Girl. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 2

An unknown man is alleged to have lured a seven-year-old girl into a lane at Redfern and assaulted her. The child's story was corroborated…

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Alleged Theft From Bank. Warrant Against Clerk. Melbourne

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 2

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Urquhart Thomas Gall, a teller at the Stock Exchange branch of the National Bank of Australia, on…

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Rothery's Appeal Against Murder Verdict. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 4

William Rothery, against whom sentence of death was recorded on a charge of administering poison with intent to murder Frederick Rothery, at Sideview, Bowan…

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