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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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£1000 in Notes Missing From Bank Clerk Charged with Theft. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

A curious story told at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day when Arnold Pemberton Walker, clerk in the Australian Bank of Commerce, was charged with…

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Six Months Gaol "A Filthy Young Brute." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 4

Sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Thomas Donoghue, 21, at Newtown court to-day, on a charge of having behaved in an indecent…

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Quarter Sessions Melee in Hotel Assault Charge Accused Found Not Guilty

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 2

At the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday, before his Honor Judge Mocatta, Cecil James Rusell, a jockey, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with…

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Still at Large Man Who Broke Out of Gaol. Cootamundra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 6

Harry Burton, who escaped from Cootamundra gaol on Monday, was seen near Harden late yesterday. Although the police conducted an immediate search he…

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Murder Mystery Nurse's Body Found Missing Since October. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

A brother of Nurse Daniels has identified the body found in a thicket near Boulogne, last Thursday, as that of his sister…

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Ferries Collide Marine Court's Judgment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

The Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquire delivered its reserved Judgment in the case in which William Henry Michelmore, master of the Manly ferry…

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Fire Under House Evidence in Coroner's Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 4

James Edison Ikin[?], who had been charged with arson, was present in court to-day, when the city coroner, Mr. H. Fletcher, held an inquiry into the cause…

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Baum Charged Big Frauds Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day, Harry Waldemar Baum, 32, solicitor, was charged with having fraudulently omitted to pay. Arthur Argiris the sum of…

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District Court Fahey v. HAWTHORNE

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

At the District Court, Grafton, yesterday, before his Honor, Judge Mocatta, Eric John Fahey, of Tyringham, schoolmaster, sought to recover the sum of…

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Sat on Suspect. Until the Police Came. Junee

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

When Mr. and Mrs. Ryan heard a man moving about in their stationery shop, Mrs. Ryan ran round to the back of the premises and slrprised a man working on…

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Man's Throat Cut Police Break Into Room. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 5

The police broke into a bedroom at the Nirvana Soap Company's premises at Redfern to-day, and found the caretaker, Herman Franks, 65, lying on a bed with…

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"Might Have Been Murder." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 4

James Day, 18, who was discovered Ryan's stationery shop, was at the local Police Court to-day sentenced to three months' hard labor. The Police…

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Telegrams Divorce Court Arrears. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 4

Asked in the Divorce Court to-day to fix an early date, for the hearing of a case from the country, Justice Owen told counsel there might be hundreds of cases…

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Boulogne Murder Case Death of Nurse Daniels Evidence at the Inquiry. Boulogne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 5

The Magistrate in charge of the Nurse Daniels' murder' case has made a definite request through diplomatic channels for the presence of Nurse McCarthy, of…

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Shocking Poverty Neglected Family Melbourne Court Disclosures. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 5

A man, aged 30, was at the Melbourne Court to-day charged with having failed to provide properly for his family. A police constable sated that while on…

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District Court a Cattle Transaction Question of Ownership Verdict for the Defendants

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 6

At the Grafton District Court yesterday, before his, Honor, Judge Mocatta, the action in which Eire John Fahey, of Tyringham, schoolmaster, sought to…

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Film Actress Petition in Divorce Court '"Husband Would Not Have Her." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 5

In the Divorce Court to-day, Marjorie Ainsworth Osborne, formerly Lord, who was once a film actress, petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Henry…

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Boulogne Murder Repudiates Napoleon's Column Story. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 5

Nurse McCarthy, who is at present at Birmingham, repudiates the story that she and Miss Daniels visited Napoleon's Column, but says they remained the whole…

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Assaulted in Police Cell. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 3

James Neville was badly knocked about in a cell at the George Street North police, station last night. When screams attracted the attention of the of…

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Demented Baker Resists Police and Firemen a Kentish Town Sensation. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 5

A force of police, three fire engines and several hundred people, besieged a baker's shop, in a Kentish town, the proprietor of which, Joseph…

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