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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

1,467 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 65 of 74

OYSTERS & ASSAULT An Interrupted Feed Neighbors at Variance Maclean Police Court Sequel

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 November 1926 · page 3

At the Maclean Police Court, before, Mr. J. E. McCulloch, Police Magistrate, Wilford Oliver Johnson was proceeded against on a charge that an the 28th…

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Police Force Members Man Charged with Attempted Bribery. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 November 1926 · page 5

At the Police Court, Ernest Hudson, 55, was charged with having attempted to bribe police force members. It is alleged that the defendant…

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Violent Assault Bottle and Razor. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 November 1926 · page 5

As a result of an assault by six men in Footscray early this morning, Duncan Campbell was taken to Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition…

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Police Fight Mob These Men Arrested. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 November 1926 · page 5

About midnight a mob of larrikins interfered with Constable Wass, who was protecting two young girls from insults. Two other constables arrived, on the…

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Share Farming Alleged Broken Agreement District Court Action

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 November 1926 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon, his Honor Judge Mocatta, in the Grafton District Court, heard an action in which John H. Grady proceeded against Frederick…

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Police Magistrate's Warning

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 3

In the Glen Innes Police Court, before Mr. W. I. Perry, P.M., when the case of Nikolas Kalokerinos versus George Gilbey for alleged fraudulent…

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Ah on Prohibited Chinese High Court. Verdict Case Remitted to Magistrate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 4

The Hight Court to-day, by a 5 to 2 majority, made an order that the case of Ah On be remitted to the Magistrate at Perth, to enter a conviction against…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 4

A verdict for the plaintiff was given by Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., in the Small Debts Court yesterday in an action in which H. H. Sanders sued Gerald J…

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Four Criminals Escape From Gaol Two Long Sentence Men. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 4

Four criminals escaped from Hobart gaol yesterday afternoon. Included among them are Alfred Dobson, who is serving a life sentence for…

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Local and General Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 4

In the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday the Magistrate (Mr. J. E. McCulloch) granted an application by William Thomas Johnson, of the Hampton Hotel,…

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Three Years Gaol Robbed Couple of Home Second Accused Offers Restitution. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 5

Arthur Robert Boyd and Robert Edward Easterbrook, who had been convicted of conspiracy, came up for sentence at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day…

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Waterfront Arbitration Court Intervenes. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 4

The Arbitration Court has intervened in the waterfront trouble and a compulsory conference has been summoned for next Wednesday, when efforts will be…

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Charged with Theft

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 4

Edward James Davis, 39, and Robert Miles, 23, ware charged at the Grafton Police, Court yesterday morning with stealing a sum of £3153 and one pair…

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Motorist Sent to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 4

At the Prahran court last, week, Mr. Rodgers, P.M., imposed a sentence of one month's gaol upon Leighton Harvey, a motor car driver, who was convicted of…

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Five Months Gaol Took Mate's Car--punched Policeman. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 5

Recently Ernest B. Cotter, 33, a well known League footballer and Country Week representative, took a mate's ear which he abandoned some time later and…

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Doctor Fined £10 Woman Alleges Assault Husband's "Unnecessary Operation." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 5

A strange story was told during the hearing of an assault case at Parramatta Court to-day. Complainant was Mrs. Isa Cassells, and…

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Federal Court Piddington's Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 5

Mr. R. H. Moore, president, of the Employers Federation of New South Wales, referring to the decision of Mr. Piddington to defy the Commonwealth Court's…

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Melbourne's Gangs Police Plan to Break Up. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 4

A special campaign to suppress the push nuisance in Melbourne is to be launched. Plans have been made and a surpris move by the police is expected to break up the…

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Silk and Perfume Seized by Police and Customs. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 5

Police officers, accompanied by a Customs inspector, visited premises in the city and seized a large quantity of silk valued at several hundred pounds, together with…

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Warrant for Arrest Man Calls at Police Station. Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 5

An extraordinary story was told by the police when Alexander Creagh was charged with having refused to pay for hotel accommodation…

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