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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

1,386 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 36 of 70

Steamer on Reef Marine Court's Finding. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 July 1925 · page 5

The Marine Court to-day inquired into the grounding of the steamer Fiona on the Green Island Reef, north east of Cairns. Captain Thomas O 'Neill, in evidence…

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Graft Alleged. Bus Company's Service. "Presents" for Traffic Police" Serious Allegations. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 July 1925 · page 5

A deputation from the Illawarra Motor 'Bus Proprietors' Association interviewed the Chief Secretary (Mr. Lazzarini) to-day, and protested against a bus…

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Union Members Sued Non Attendance at Meetings Brisbane Court Decision. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 July 1925 · page 5

An important decision to unionists was given by Mr. Hishon, Police Magistrate, to-day in a case in which the Meat Employees' Union sued a member named…

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He Did Not Know Romantic Marriage Italian Count S Divorce Strange Story in London Court. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 July 1925 · page 5

An extraordinary case was heard in the Divorce Court yesterday, in which an Italian, Count Jerome Valier, sought a decree to nullify his Registry Office…

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Telegrams Alleged Assault on Girl. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 July 1925 · page 5

A man was arrested by the police at Kogarah last night and charged with haying indecently assaulted a girl of ten years, of age on a vacant allotment near…

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Police Take a Hand. Fight at Football Match. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 July 1925 · page 5

A free fight, in which players and spectators joined, occurred at a football match between Bankstown and Earlwood at Bankstown yesterday. The police stepped…

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"The Right to Kill" Third Case in France Wife Acquitted on Murder Charge. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 July 1925 · page 5

The question of the right to kill in order to end hopeless suffering has for the third time in a few months been answered in the affirmative by a French…

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Bankruptcy Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 4

In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday before the District Registrar, Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., the matter of the examination of Mrs. Mary Walker, mother of…

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Alleged Murder Woman Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 5

As Norah Skidmore 21, domestic servant, was leaving the Women's Hospital. Melbourne, she was arrested and charged with having wilfully murdered a female…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 4

In the Grafton Small Debts Court before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., yesterday morning John Thomas Willis, police sergeant of Walcha, late of Copmanhurst and…

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Allegations of Graft Bus Proprietors and the Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1925 · page 4

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Lazzarini, consulted the Acting Inspector-General of Police to-day to discuss the allegations of the Illawarra Bus Proprietors about the…

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Police Tackle 21 Footballers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 July 1925 · page 4

Twenty-one footballers have received summonses to appear before the P.M. at Queanbeyan on July 20, on charges of having created a nuisance to certain residents…

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Former Army General. Police Court Charges. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 5

Norman Ramsay Murray, believed to be a former army General, appeared at the City Court to-day on a charge of having insufficient means of support The charge…

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Man's Sensational Escape Police Court Sequel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 5

There was a sequel to the sensational escape of a man over the roofs of houses at Randwick last week, when Edward Heath (26), Daphne Travers (19), and…

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Victorian Detectives O'sullivan Sentenced. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 5

The detective, Leo O'Sullivan, who was convicted of having conspired, with other detectives, to obtain money from Terence Callaghan, licensee of the Londonderry…

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Proposed Court of Inquiry. Views of the Miners. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 5

The Miners' Executive at Scarborough late last night, after many hours consideration, drew up a resolution, the terms of which will not be disclosed until submitted…

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Land Sale Contract. Case at Ballina Court Another Adjournment

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 1

The case John Martin v. Alfred Ernest Maher and Percy Edward Tighe, where Martin charged the defendants with destroying a valuable security, namely, a…

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'You Nearly Got Me' Brisbane Safeblowing Two Men in Court. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 5

"Yes, I could blow the--twon to pieces if I knew my way about. We were mugs to take it on so early. About 4 o'clock would have been better.''…

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Alleged Criminal Assault. Five Youths Charged. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 2

Two girls, aged 15, informed the police that when they were walking past Riverside Park at Marrickville last Sunday they were molosted by a…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 4

The following cases were dealt with at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M. James Dunn pleaded guilty to a charge…

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