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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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£250 REWARD The Condon Murder City Cafe Incident Detective's Sensational Experience. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mitchell, to-day recommended to the Chief Secretary that £250 reward be offered for the arrest and conviction of the…

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Wrestlers' Dispute Abortive Appeal to Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 4

In the Practice Court to-day, Mr. Justice McArthur refused to grant Adolph Ernst, professionally known as Ad Santel, a wrestler, an interlocutory…

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Want Jobs Back Echo of Police Strike Mutineers Approach Labor Government. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 5

A deputation from the Trades Hall Council and the Ex-Police Association asked the Chief Secretary Mr. Prender gast, that the ban placed on police…

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Stealing a Revolver a Gunner Convicted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 August 1927 · page 5

At the North Sydney Police Court to-day Edgar George Brown, aged 25, a gunner, was charged with having stolen from Victoria Barracks a revolver valued at…

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Northern Murder In[?] Information Suppress [?] Strikers. Innisfall [?]

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 August 1927 · page 5

The Magisterial inquiry [?]der of Picket J. Hines, on [?] to-day, when it was adjor[?] No light whatever was [?]…

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Condon Murder Ferry Passenger's Story. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 August 1927 · page 4

A passenger on board a Sydney ferry boat yesterday informed the police that a man who got into conversation with him remarked, "Have you seen my…

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Serious Clash Police and Communists. Paris

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 August 1927 · page 5

A serious clash between Communist strikers and the police occurred in the Avenue d'Italic thin afternoon, when a crowd of strikers, as a protest against…

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May Continue Engineers' Strike Not Satisfied with Terms Union May Withdraw Prom Arbitration Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 August 1927 · page 5

Although the representatives of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, which attended the compulsory conference presided over by Judge Beeby yesterday…

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Cessnock Imbecile Another Alleged Assault. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 2

Oliver Collins Grose, aged 48, laborer, was remanded at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday on a charge of having attempted to assault a woman known to…

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Motor Cyclists Surprised Sydney Police Raid. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 2

The police went to Regent's Park yesterday where motor cyclists were participating in an acceleration test, and took the names of about fifty riders with…

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New Trial Refused Saceo-Vanzetti Federal Court Only Hope Execution Fixed for Today Call for "World Strike." Boston

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 5

A new trial for Sacco. and Vanzetti was" refused by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The defence counsel has appealed…

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Local and General . Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 4

There was no appearance at the Grafton Police Court yesterday of Frank Denis Pigott to answer a charge of drunkenness, and Mr. E. A. Mahony,…

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West Kempsey Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 4

The Public Works Department has received four tenders for the erection of a new residence and gaol at West Kempsey police station. G. L. Brest, £4448, was…

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Murder Story Denied. Madrid

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 6

The Convent vengeance story, cabled on August 6, when a father, after seeing how his daughter had been treated, ray, amok and shot six nuns, is without…

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Police Raid Chief Secretary Inquires Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 5

As the result, of complaints which followed a police raid on the premises of the Roma Cafe, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gosling, conducted an inquiry…

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Handbag Thief Caught in Police Trap. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 5

The police arrested a man at Fairy Bower, Manly, on Saturday night, and charged him with theft. It is alleged that he was in the habit…

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Bribe Story Scheme To Square J[?] Man Charged "Everything Is All Right Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 4

An extraordinary story was [?] at the General Sessions to-day, [?] Thomas McGaughay was charged [?] having invited Daniel McMichaell…

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Domain Orator ''Follow Me, Boys' Arrested by Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 5

Harry Meatheringham, a well-known Domain orator, was arrested in the Domain yesterday on a charge, of riotous behavior…

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Fires in France Police Searching for Blue Car. Paris

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 5

New outbreaks of fire in the Riviera district have occurred. The police are searching for a woman and three Lien in a mysterious blue motor car which has…

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Too Fast Police Car's Chase Stolen Car--six Shots Fired. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 5

Six shots were, fired by the police during an exciting chose after a stolen motor through the city streets early on Sunday morning…

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