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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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Twice Decorated Now Confidence Man Three Years for Stealing. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 5

A sense of comradeship in arms prompted Commander Locker Lampson, M.P., to plead at the Marlborough street court to-day for leniency for Frederick James, a…

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Three Years Gaol Woman Violently Assaulted and Robbed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 5

Herbert James Daley, 18, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by Judge Edwards, at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, for having assaulted and robbed Mrs…

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Murder of Gold Seekers Trial Opens at Rabaul. Rabaul

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 5

The trial is proceeding at Rabaul of sixteen natives for the alleged murder of gold prospectors. Noel Collins, Bruce Marley, David Page and Leslie Fisher…

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Five Migrants Sensational Arrests Police Draw Revolvers Two Alleged to Be London Criminals. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 4

For some time past it has been reported to the police that suburban residences have been entered by thieves and property valued at…

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Love Tragedy The Broadstairs Murder 'Only a Butterfly' Story in Coroner's Court London

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 June 1927 · page 5

"That's Sonia's lamp. The butterfly painted on it is Sonia; she was only a butterfly, and now she is dead." This striking passage of heartbroken…

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Plot Discovered to Smuggle Russians Case in U.S.A. Court. Philadelphia

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 June 1927 · page 5

The authorities have revealed the existence of a widespread plot to smuggle Russians into the. United States in excess of the immigration quota…

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Jockey Arrested Alleged Assault on Girl. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 5

As a result of information supplied to the police, a well-known jockey was arrested at Darlinghurst, yesterday and charged with a serious offence against…

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"Receiver Worse Than Thief" Coke Stealing Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

Thomas Donohue was found guilty at the Central Court of having received a quantity of coke belonging to the Gaslight Company knowing it to have been…

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Bullet in Lung Car Proprietor Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 4

Thomas Kelly, 36, car proprietor, was remanded at the Central Court, charged with having shot at Frank Frederick Hayes, with intent to do grievous bodily…

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Forging and Uttering Two Young Men Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

Bertie Noel Quinn, 26, fitter, and Robert Dodd, 21, ironmoulder, were committed for trial from the Central Court to-day on charge of having forged and…

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STOLE £1892 Young Woman Sent to Gaol for Two Years. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

At Christchurch, Nancy Hastings Carr, 22, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge of stealing £1892 from her employer whilst acting as secretary…

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Railway Workers Wages Increase Claimed Application Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

The Australian Railway Union to-day applied to the Commonwealth Arbitration Court for a variation of the award covering certain sections…

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Year's Gaol Hit Boy with Shovel Tramway Employee Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 5

Sentence of 12 months imprisonment was imposed on a tramway employee named Alfred Humphreys, 26, at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, for common assault…

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£10,000 Theft English Mail Robbery Man Charged in New Zealand. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 5

The police at Hamilton arrested Joseph Foster and charged him with the theft of £10,000 from the British Government, on February 2, on which date a…

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Police Raid at Ipswich

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 4

As a result of a police raid at Ipswich on Saturday morning, 25 men were arrested on a charge of having been found in common gaming houses, and three were…

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Girl's Story Charge of Assault Alleged Assailant Acquitted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Henry Charles Davies, 33, was charged with having committed a capital offence on a seventeen-year-old girl at…

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Land Court Case a Bellingen Appeal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 5

In the appeal by the Minister against the appriased value of an area of 2 acres 3 roods, resumed for road purposes from additional conditional purchase No…

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N.S.W. and Vic. Police "Never Make Comparisons." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mitchell, refused to comment on the statement of a Victorian detective, that crime was worse in Sydney than in Melbourne…

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Victorian Police Increased Pay Likely Execution of Distress Warrants. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 4

A police deputation urged Mr. Prendergast, Victorian Chief Secretary, to abolish the practice of using police to execute distress warrants…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 4

Before Mr. C. F. Denton, J.P., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, William Alexander McLennan was charged with having behaved in an…

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