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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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Gruesome Exhibits Inquest on Joan Smith Mother Carried Out of Court Father Says He Suspected Hughes. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 5

A large crowd filled the courthouse to-day, when the inquest into the death of Joan Smith was resumed by the coroner, Mr. R. C…

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Court Concidence

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 1

There was a strange coincidence in the Brisbane police court the other day, when one of the principal Crown witnesses was Sergeant John O'Connor, of Windsor. He…

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Alleged Criminal Assault Bush Being Searched. Rappville

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 4

While riding across the bush from Yulgilbar, in company with an elderly man, a young girl is alleged to have been criminally assaulted by her companion,…

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Factory Murder Bloodstains on Apron. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 5

Giving evidence at the inquest concerning the death of James Flanagan, who was found with his head battered in Murray's factory, Dr. Bull said the…

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Girl's Death Bailiff Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day Douglas Arthur Newell, 25, bailiff, was charged with having slain Mary Thomson, who was knocked down and killed by a motor…

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Woman's Death Murder Charge Against Husband "Get Out of Here." Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 5

At the inquest concerning the alleged murder of Mrs. Gill by her husband, John Gill, 33 at statement by accused was read, in which he said when he got home early…

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Charged by Cow

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 4

Mr. E. A. Trevitt was charged by a cow in Brisbane street, Murwillumbah, near the Post Office on Tuesday afternoon. The animal, which was being…

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Local and General Alleged Criminal Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 4

The Casino police on Tuesday arrested the man who, it is alleged, criminally assaulted, a young girl, who was riding across the bush from her father's home…

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Lord's Son Arrested on Money Stealing Charge. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 5

Lawrence Palk, son and heir of Lord Haldon, has been arrested. Palk disappeared mysteriously from a city office on December 28, with a sum…

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"Sorry I Missed Her" Man Charged with Shooting at Wife. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 5

At the Balmain Police Court William Harold Lang, 31, street singer, was committed for trial on a charge of maliciously shooting at Kathleen Lang, his wife,…

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'One Good Sniff' Sale of Cocaine Alleged Man Ands Woman Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day Robert Landford, 29, laborer, and Lillian Sproule, 49, were, charged with having illegally sold cocaine…

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Arbitration Court Acknowledged Failure Rejected Everywhere

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 6

In an article on the subject of the Arbitration Court the "Age" (Melbourne) says:--"Throughout Australia faith in the…

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S,A, police Most Discontented Body. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 5

Addressing a special of the South Australian Police Association Constable Fenwick, secretary, said there never had been a more discontented body…

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BATTERY Sensation at Ascot Three Out for Life Prnce Offa and Party Police Were Called In. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 5

THE BIGGEST SENSATION ON A SYDNEY RACECOURSE FOR MANY YEARS, OCCURRED AT ASCOT THIS AFTERNOON, WHEN…

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Police Court. CORAMBA

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 1

At Coramba Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M John Patterson Si[?] was charge under the dairy regulation with [?]…

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Three Years Gaol Numerous Charges of Fraud London

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 5

James Spiers, the clerk who was arrested yesterday on 10 warrants alleging 88. charges of fraud, was to-day sentenced to three years' imprisonment…

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Theft of Tobacco. on Night of Fire Young Man Fined

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 5

At the Dorrigo Police Court on Tuesday last before Messrs. A. C. Newman and A. Walker, Js.P., William Suarpe, alias James, McKell, age 24,…

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Murder? Woman's Body Found Partly Hidden in Scrub. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 5

The body of a young woman was found in the scrub near Frankston to-day. The discovery was made by a bread carter, on his rounds…

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Riot at Mill Incident at Shanghai Hankow Situation Improved Murder at Foreign Settlement. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 5

The Chinese foreman of the Shanghai Foreign Settlement tramways, while driving in a ri[?]sha this morning in a quiet part of the…

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Terrible Record of Confessed Murder Suspected of Murder, Incendiarism and Robbery. Paris

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 5

The parents of Charlotte Barbichon, second wife of Guyot, are demanding an inquiry into the cause of her death from a bullet wound at, Monte Carlo. Guyot is…

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