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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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Theft Charges £4500 Worth of Jewellery Stolen. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

At Brisbane Police Court two mer John Mulligan and Arthur Bayley, were remanded to Melbourne on charges of theft…

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Box's Death French Chef Charged Bail Fixed at £500. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Pierre Titrien Mousset, 52, a French chef, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having murdered George Dunne, in Little Burton street,…

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Split Notes Police Issue Warning. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Four faked pound notes were put into circulation at Victoria Park pony meeting yesterday. The police to-day issued a warning to…

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Italian Shot Dead Countryman to Be Tried for Murder. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Angelo Delguzzi was committed for trial at Trayning on a charge of having murdered Sabatino Fattero on Christmas Eve…

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Police Nonplussed Mount Victoria Motor Fatality. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

The police are still nonplussed as to the whereabouts of a motorist who is said to have been responsible for the death of John Hunter on Sunday last near Mount…

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Police Dragging River. Girl Believed to Have Been Drowned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

The police are dragging Georges River at Bankstown for the body of Norma Boland, who is believed to have been drowned there yesterday. She was at…

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Joan Smith Was Child Dead When Buried? Boy Says He Is Certain Statement to Police Story of Tragic Affair Gradually Unfolding. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

JAMES HUGHES, WHO IS HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF JOAN SMITH HAS A MADE A STATEMENT TO THE…

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Mosquitoes at Broken Hill Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 4

With reference to the reported trouble with mosquitoes at the Broken Hill gaol, the authorities state that they are doing the utmost to keep the pest down. They…

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Theory Handed Over to Police Incident at Deepwater

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 1

Theory, the Northern Rivers race mare, which won the big double at the Armidale and New England Jockey Club's Christ mas meeting, was the subject of an…

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"Tell the Police" Body Found in Baths. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 5

A body, which was identified as Harry James, 35, a resident of Glebe, was recovered from the Domain free baths this morning…

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Boy of Eleven Speaks Five Languages Surprised Court Officials Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 5

A boy witness, aged eleven, at Redfern court to-day surprised the officials when he stated he could speak five languages…

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54 Chests of Tea Man Charged with Theft. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

At the Central Court to day Charles William Webster, 36, carrier was charged with haying stolen 54 chests of tea, valued £433, the property of Robert…

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Magistrate's Rebuke

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 1

"You are discharged. I am sorry you were arrested," said a London, Magistrate one day in September to Harry Vaughan Nelson, a business manager,…

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Typhoid in Gaol Another Death at Goulburn. Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

George Joyce 21, a prisoner at Goulburn Goal. died of typhoid to-day. Two more prisoners are in hospital suffering from the same disease, the origin of…

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British Court Martial Four Germans Acquitted. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

A message from Weisbaden (Germany) states that a British court-martial acquitted four young Germans accused of attacking two British soldiers, one of whom…

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Man Shot Another on Murder Charge Young Woman's Story Victim's Alleged Attack. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

At the Brisbane Police Court today George Ward, 29, laborer, was charged with the wilful murder of William Kerby, otherwise known as…

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Bondi Assault Case Brauner Again in Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 5

Having been remanded on five previous occasions on the charge of having assaulted a young woman with intent to commit a criminal offence William…

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Grafton Police Court Two First Offenders

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 7

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. W. B.. Geddes, P.M., Henry Murray pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found drunk in Through…

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Charge of Stealing Samples

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 4

Leslie C. Weston, a young man, was charged, in the Brisbane Police Court, before Mr. J. S. Berge, P.M., with having stolen, between December 1, 1925, and…

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Alleged Bank Theft Accused Remanded. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 5

At the police court to- day Henry Collins, 28, laborer, who was arrested at Tobwoomba the previous day, was charged with stealing £140 the property of the…

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