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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

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Near Pit's Edge Police Arrest Man. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 August 1926 · page 5

The Cessnock police were informed that a man was acting in a strange manner near the town at an early hour this morning, and they arrived just in time to…

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Court Snaps Humor From Bench and Box

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 August 1926 · page 4

At the hearing of the alleged cattle stealing case yesterday at Grafton Quarter Sessions one of the witnesses mentioned the name of another witness, who up to…

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Dr. Fleming Full Court Appeal Fails. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 August 1926 · page 5

The Full Court to-day dismissed the appeal by Dr. James Hamilton Fleming, from a determination of the Medical Board to remove his name from the…

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Car and Jewellery Daring George Street Theft. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1926 · page 5

The police are inquiring into the disappearance of jewellery valued at about £100, the property of Arthur Cocks, Ltd. The jewellery was in a traveller's car…

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About a Heifer Alleged Cattle Stealing Accused Found Not Guilty

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1926 · page 3

The Grafton Quarter Sessions was continued yesterday morning before his Honor Judge Mocatta. Mr. R. J. Browning was present to prosecute for the…

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Tennis Queensland Hard Court Championships

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1926 · page 3

The Queensland hard court championships will be held at Southport on September 11, 12, 13, in conjunction with the fourth annual Southport tennis…

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Murder Trial Tracks In The Bush Bloodstained Iron Bar Shot Marks in Bushes. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1926 · page 5

Detective Sergeant Manning, giving evidence at the trial of Coulter and Treffene who are charged with the murder of the two detectives on the Goldfields, said an…

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CLASHES Police And Strikers Commons to Re-assemble Emergency Act to Continue. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1926 · page 5

While generally speaking the number of miners working continues to increase there has been a decrease in the Mansfield district, on the Notts coalfield,…

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Gaol Escapee Captured Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 4

Arthur Harold Harrison, 23, who escaped from Redruth police station near Broken Hill on Monday, accompanied by a companion, was arrested by the police near…

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Betting Ticket Case Charge of Stealing Accused Acquitted

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 2

At the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday, before his Honor Judge Mocatta, Mark Rowles was charged with stealing the sum of £15, the property of F. J. Tom,…

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Italian's Death Taxi Driver Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 4

The city coroner to-day held an inquiry into the death of Aniello Laceharini, 57, an Italian, who was killed when a motor car collided with a springcart, in which…

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Tailor's Evidence Goldfields Murder Case. Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 4

Thomas Nutt, general manager, and Jack Eldon, Kalgoorlie, manager of the Adelaide Tailoring Co., giving evidence at the Goldfields murder trial, identified…

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The Miners Police for Coalfields London

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

It is understood that the Home Office has drawn up plans for the movement of large numbers of police from London and other unaffected areas to the coalfields…

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Safebreakers Supper on the Roof Gone When Police Arrived. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

Learning that safebreakers intended to break into the premises of Laver Bros. and Co., preservers of fruit and vegetables, at Collingwood, fifteen armed…

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Faked Tickets for "Police Concert" Three Hundred People Defrauded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

Three hundred people who bought tickets for the "police Concert" at the Hippodrome attended the theatre last night, but found the doors barred against…

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Baby Insane Mother Commits Suicide Pathetic Story in Coroner's Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

A sad story was told to the coroner to[?]day at the inquest into the death of Clare McAlpine, a barmaid, who hanged herself at a city hotel recently…

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'TRIFLING' Slapped Her Face Society Women in Court Wentworth Cafe Incident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

The hearing was continued at the Central Summons Court to-day of the case in which one well-known society women, Mrs. Hilda Boyle, treasurer of the Sunshine…

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Magistrate Was Convinced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 3

"It would take a fly to scale that wall," declared a witness at the Central Court on Tuesday, referring to a stone wall at the Town Hall, which a young…

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Charges of Theft Stores Employee in Trouble. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day. George Gilbert, 37, a married man with three children, pleaded guilty to two charges of theft from the Civil Service…

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Mystery Murder Timothy McCARTHY'S Death. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 5

Thomas Reginald Hannah was committed for trial from the Newtown Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Timothy McCarthy, at Camperdown, on…

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