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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

1,467 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 55 of 74

Echo of Gold Theft Sonoma's Quartermaster Fugitive Foe Five Years. San Diego

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 September 1926 · page 5

Placide Joseph Ducrcst., who is wanted in San Francisco for stealing Australian bullion from the steamer Sonoma in 1021, has been found guilty in the Federal…

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Theft of Wallet

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 September 1926 · page 4

Charles Samuel McGowen, was charged at the Glen limes Police Court with having stolen a wallet containing £11, on March 11 last, the property of A. J…

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Cow Decides Court Case. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 September 1926 · page 4

A cow decided a case at the Dover Police Court. Two farmers claimed ownership of the animal, and as the argument of…

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Boy Missing Police Dragging for Body. Maitland

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 September 1926 · page 5

Richard Chapman, 14, has been missing from his home since yesterday morning, and in the afternoon his hat, coat, and axe he took with him were found on the…

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Divorce Court a Grafton Suit. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 September 1926 · page 5

Alleging desertion, Adelina Ward, formerly Foreman, sued for a divorce from Jesse Henry Ward, to whom she was married in 1911 at Grafton according to the…

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Revision Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1926 · page 4

The Revision Court was held at the Courthouse, Grafton, yesterday morning, when the Clonks of Shires of Copmanhurst, Nymboida and Orara and the Town Clerks…

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To Hoodwink Public High-sounding Title to Company Directors Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1926 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Oliver Partington and Christopher Henry, who had been convicted of having conspired to defraud the shareholders of the…

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Observant Youth Rings Up Police Station Three Men Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1926 · page 5

While walking along George Street West, last night the young son of Constable Warner, of the Clarence street station, noticed some men standing near the…

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Two Up School 81 Men Before the Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1926 · page 5

There was a sequel to the police raid on premises at Redfern recently when 81 men pleaded guilty at the Redfern Police Court to-day with having been found…

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Alleged Theft of £1060

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 4

Evidence was heard in the Brisbane Police Court, in the charge against Benjamin Hirst Taylor, on remand, of having stolen £10501310, between June 8 and…

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Appeal Signed Kalgoorlie Murder. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 5

William Charles Coulter and Philip Treffene, who are under sentence of death for the murder of Detective Inspector Walsh at Kalgoorlie, have signed an…

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Boxing Police Stop Bout. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 7

At the Stadium last night Ivan Laffiiueur (10.11), of France, defeated Eddie Butcher (10.3) on a technical knock-out. The police stopped the bout in the 15th…

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Home Again Spent 19 Out of Last 24 Years in Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 5

When Henry Jacobs, 36, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day, with the theft of jewellery and stockings, valued in all at £10, the police…

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In the Divorce Court Ex-ka[?]ser's Son and Wife. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 4

Princess Siphi Charlotte is suing the ex-Kaiser's, second son, Eitel Friederich, for divorce, alleging that incompatible temperaments are rendering their married…

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'BEWARE' Maniac with Rifle Six Shots at Motor Car Arrested After Shooting at Police. Cloncurry

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 5

While two men named Fleming and Sands were travelling by car from Gilliat to Cloncurry yesterday afternoon they saw at Fullarton, 40 miles from Cloncurry,…

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To Gaol Instead of North Coast Offender Pleads with Magistrate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1926 · page 5

Charged with having stolen a roll or tweed worth £615, Maurice O'Connor, 54, pleaded to the Magistrate for a chance, at the Central Police Court to-day…

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Seven Years Schoolmaster Sentenced. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1926 · page 4

At the Criminal Court, Alfred James Florence, 51, schoolmaster, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, on charges of having committed grave offences against…

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Brutal Assault Young Man Attacked on Tram. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1926 · page 5

Stanley Gray, 20, was brutally assaulted by a gang of seven young men, who attacked him at Circular Quay late last night…

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Starving Man Steals Bicycle Month's Gaol--sentence Suspended. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1926 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day a man was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge of stealing a bicycle…

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Crown Prince of Sweden Attempted Murder Story Denied Tokio

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1926 · page 5

The chief of the metropolitan police officially and emphatically denies a sensational Japanese newspaper story of the attempted assassination of the Crown Prince…

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