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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

1,467 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 19 of 74

A Merry Hour Carnival Court of Injustice a Heavy Charge Sheet Gay Night at Hospital Carnival

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 March 1926 · page 4

The Hospital Carnival was continued last night, when Carnival Avenue was again the scene of revelry. Another large crowd was present, and…

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Alleged Theft Sixteen Motor Cars. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1926 · page 5

At the City Court to-day Frederick Bremner, 26, was charged with having stolen 16 motor cars, and also parts of cars, to the value of £4000. He was…

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Cargo Broaching Theft of Shaving Soap. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1926 · page 5

Last week while the oversea steamer Masirah was being unloaded, at Brisbane two boxes of shaving soap were broached Last night a man was stopped by the…

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Police and Purgatives a Leipzig Incident. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1926 · page 5

The fact that between three and four hundred Leipzig policemen fell ill on the day that President Hindenburg visited the Leipzig fair was revealed by the…

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Unattended Motors Sixteen Driven Away Alleged Statement to Police. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1926 · page 3

Frederick Bremner, who was arrested on a charge of stealing 16 motor cars, is said to have made a signed statement referring to a long series of motor…

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Police Have Clue Woman's Body Identified Movements of Motor Car. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1926 · page 3

The dead body of the woman found at Chadstone road, Caulfield, on March 25 by motorists has been identified as that of Elizabeth Law, 38…

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Girl Dead in Room. Woman Charged with Murder

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 4

Mysterious circumstances attend the finding of the body of a young woman in an Adelaide hotel during the week-end. A phone message…

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Fight in Gaol

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 2

An official report states that Francis Perkins and Douglas Robertson, the two men who were each sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for…

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Shooting Tragedy Man Arrested on Murder Charge. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 4

James McDonald, an employee of Peters' estate at Glenloth, was shot in the groin with a shotgun early on Saturday morning, and died from the injury…

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Chase by Police. Boy Takes to Drains

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 1

Underground in Melbourne, in a series of big drains leading to the. Yarra, a boy led the police and a party of ratcatchers a mery chase…

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Licensing Court Grafton District Freemasons' Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 2

The application of Mrs. Fanny Small for approval of plans and specifications for the rebuilding of the Freemasons' Hotel, Prince street, was further dealt with in…

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The Police Shorter Working Week Deputation to Minister. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 5

A deputation representing the Police Association waited on the Chief Secretary, Mr. Lazzarini, concerning a number of matters of interest to the force…

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Betting Ticket Forgers Convicted and Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1926 · page 4

The case in which Valentine Besome and Henry John Roberts, two printers, were charged on three counts of forging betting ticket duty stamps was concluded…

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£5000 in Tatts Agreement to Divide Equity Court Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1926 · page 5

Before Mr. Justice Long limes, in the Equity Court to-day, Frances Norris, wife of Henry Norr's, of Gravesend, near Warialda, New South Wales, brought an…

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Chinese Sentenced Extraordinary Immobility

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1926 · page 4

A Birkenhead Chinese, Leek Ah Tam, was found guilty at Chester Assizes of murdering, by shooting, his wife and two daughters, and was sentenced to…

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Grafton Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 April 1926 · page 4

At the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday, Mrs. Fanny Small was granted permission to continue business in a temporary bar adjoining the Freemasons.'…

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CRUELTY Death of Violent Father Son Charged "Shot to Finish Him."

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 April 1926 · page 3

"I've shot my father!"' This, according to police evidence, before the Coroner at Murwillumbah was the dramatic announcement of Bruce…

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The World Court Attitude of United States. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1926 · page 3

A note declining the League of Nations' invitation to the world court conference at Geneva will be forwarded early in the week by the State Secretary,…

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DEVELOPMENTS The Oakleigh Tragedy Death of Mrs. Law Nurse Charged with Murder. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 5

There was an unexpected development in connection with the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Law when the detectives visited a house, where they seized a motor car and…

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Assault at Ultimo. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 5

Shortly after lie left his home at Ultima to-day Edward Ryan, 29, was attacked by five men in broad daylight. He was kicked into insensibility, and it is…

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