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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

1,386 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 34 of 70

Family in Rag[?] Found by Police[?] Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 June 1925 · page 3

Clad in rags and [?] mother and her the [?] age of six years [?] shanty at Croy[?]…

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Kyogle Assault Case Alleged Assailant Charged. Kyogle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1925 · page 5

Further particulars of the assault, committed upon Thomas Reeves, a farmer, of Collins Creek, shows that Reeves had passed through the hallway of the…

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Stealing Newspapers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1925 · page 4

"Pay tor your newspapers in future," was the advice given by Mr. W. Harris, P.M., in the Brisbane Police Court on Thursday to William Bruce, an elderly…

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Female Samson Snag for Fijian Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1925 · page 5

There is a female Samson in [?] Mary is her name. She is a Samo[?] not a bad-looking girl, about [?] years of age…

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Disappearing Letters Postal Employee Charged. Committed for Trial

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1925 · page 4

A postal official. Francis Weather-stone, employed at Casino, was charged at the Casino Police Court on Tuesday, 23rd June, with the…

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Murder Trial The Toronto Tragedy Oakes' Cross-examination Loss of Memory. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 July 1925 · page 5

When the trial ol Arthur Augustus Oakes, on a charge of having murdered Mary Mona Beacher, at Toronto, was resumed at the Central Criminal Court…

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Football Assault Case Captain Fined £5. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day H. Luland was charged by summons with having assaulted Norman Sampson. The defendant pleaded guilty…

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Called Police and Was Herself Fined

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 4

Marie O'Leavy, confectioner, of Spensley street, Clifton Hill, was charged at Collingwood (Victoria) with having sold cigarettes without having a tobacco…

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44-Hour Week in Queensland Special Pay for Police. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 July 1925 · page 1

Arrangements have been completed between the State Government and various sections of its employees in respect to the operation of the 44 hour week principle…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 6

At Kempsey Quarter Sessions on Monday, before Judge Mocatta, Harold Milton Fredericks (on bail) was charged with, on 24th December, 1925,…

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Police Court Practice Sydney P.M.'s. Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 5

Mr. Peisley, S.M., announced to-day at the Central Court that in future in any suitable case he would adopt the practice of binding the defendant to come up for…

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Football Spectator's Death Player Charged with Manslaughter. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 5

William Oliver, formerly a champion footballer, has been committed for trial for the alleged manslaughter of John Purcell. Evidence was given that the…

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Preference to Unionists. to Apply to Police. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 2

The Tasmanian Government has decided to adopt a policy of preference to unionists in the police force forthwith…

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Firemen Sent to Gaol. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 July 1925 · page 3

Three firemen were charged at Greymouth with having refused to get up steam on the Waipura. The defence was that there were no trimmers aboard and…

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News of the World Germans at Moscow. Students Sentenced to Death. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 July 1925 · page 3

Three German students, alleged to belong to the German reactionary "Konsul" organisation, were sentenced to death on a charge of ploting to assassinate…

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Redfern Murder New Revelations Aves Intends to Appeal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 July 1925 · page 3

Cecil Aves, who was convicted yesterday of having murdered Mrs. Florence Quirk, intends to appeal to the Criminal Court of Appeal against his sentence as a…

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Bellingen District Court Claim for Defamation Fails

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 July 1925 · page 2

In the Bellingen District Court, on Saturday, 4th inst., before His Honor Judge Mocatta, John Elias Price proceeded against Thomas West, on two separate…

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Minister's Directions Magistrate's Disclosure Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 5

Mr. Peisley, Stipendiary Magistrate, [?]ow states that Mr. Ley was the Minister who requested him not to bind over convicted defendants…

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Motor Drivers Several Before Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 7

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., several charges for breaches of motor traffic regulations were dealt with…

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Supreme Court Judge's Protest. (Published by arrangement)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 3

Mr. Frank H. Norcross, ex-Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, declares, reports the New York "Sun," that universal contempt for the law is…

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