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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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Dropped Dead Goulburn Police Sergeant Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 August 1927 · page 5

Sergeant John Waugh of Goulburn police, dropped dead in the courthouse grounds yesterday .He was apparently in good health and had been duty…

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Civilians V Police Seven Charges Dismissed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 August 1927 · page 5

After hearing further evidence in the ease in which Albert Mahony and Cecil John Millet alleged an assault against Plain-clothes Constables Carroll and…

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Referee Punched Police Reinforcements Called Wild Time at Football Match. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 August 1927 · page 2

There was a with time at Birchgrove Oval yesterday, during a Rugby League, match between Balmain and Eastern Suburbs…

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Coffs Police Station

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 4

Considering it to be a matter of urgent Importance to the community, the Chamber of Commerce is still pressing for the removal of the…

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District Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 4

The following cases are listed for hearing in the District Court at the sittings which open at Grafton to-day:--McDonald v. Cook, Robb. v. O'Meara, Winkler…

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Lost Motor Tyre a Charge of Stealing Successful Prosecution

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 6

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday afternoon before Mr. E. A. Malrony, P. M., Albert Edward Zietsch appeared on remand to answer a charge of having stolen…

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Youthful Car Driver Charged with Manslaughter Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 5

The coroner to-day committed for trial Erie Lofts, 15, on a charge of the manslaughter of Mavis Hurst, 7, at Kogarah, on August 5…

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Brothers Arrested Alleged Assault on Policeman Disturbance at Picture Show. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 5

Constable Schultz was severaly injured on Saturday night, after he had removed two in en from a picture theatre where, it was alleged, they had been…

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Local and General Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 4

In the Graf ton Licensing, Court yesterday, Mr. E. A. Mahony, 'P.M., granted an application for the transfer of the license for the Copmanhurst Hotel, Copmanhurst,…

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Nature of an Oath Grafton Court Incident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 4

"How eld are you, my boy?" asked the P.M., when a bright-looking lad responded to the call of his name and took his place in the witness box at the…

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MURDER Two Big Robberies New York Sensation Policeman Under Arrest. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 5

Two sensational robberies and a murder occurred at the week end. Judson Pratt, son of a wealthy architect, was shot dead while delivering £100…

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Handbag Stolen Thief Produces Revolver Woman's Story to Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 5

Dolly Quinn, of Victoria street, Darlinghurst, informed the police this morning that she was in a house in Riley street, when a man walked in, snatched…

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Poker in Train Three Men Sentenced. Junee

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 4

At Junee police court three, men were convicted of having played a game of poker in a railway carriage and with being rogues and vagabonds…

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Rabaul Murder Five Natives Convicted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 5

A message from Rabaul states that the Chief Judge found five natives guilty of the wilful murder of four white men at Nakanai and sentenced them to death…

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Police Hints Crime of Being Run Over

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 3

Advice to householders, pedestrians and motorists as to the best methods of safeguarding themselves against burglars, sudden death in the streets, and motor car…

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Police Strikers Reinstatement Never Considered, Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 4

In the Victorian Legislative Council Mr. H. Smith moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the possibility of the Government reinstating the police strikers…

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District Court Grafton Sittings. Matrimonial Causes

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 8

At the Grafton District Court yesterday, before his Honor Judge Mocatra, Sarah Ann Drew petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with George Drew, on…

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Hit Referee 'Not Much of a Sport' Fighting Footballer Fined Admonished by Magistrate Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 5

At Balmain Court to-day, Michael John Russell, 33, laborer, was charged with riotous behaviour at Birchgrove Park on Saturday, during the progress of the First…

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Little Girl's Plight Police Searching for Man. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 4

While walking along the road at Newport yesterday a little girl and her brother were accosted by a man on a bicycle. The man gave the boy…

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'Labor Daily Levy on Unionists Improperly Made, Says Magistrate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 September 1927 · page 6

The Chief Industrial Magistrate, Mr. G. C. Addison, giving judgment to-day decided that the levy made on unionists for the support of the "Labor Daily"…

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