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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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Eight Charges of Stealing Against Armidale Youths

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 4

Laurence Frederick Henry Hines (22), and Leslie James Morley (20), had eight charges of stealing in company, at Armidale, on October 9, preferred against them…

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Civic Corruption Mayor Sentenced, Fined and Disfranchised. Indianapolis

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 5

Mayor Duvall, who was convicted of violating the State corrupt practices law, was to-day sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment and fined £200, and disfranchised…

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Another Murder Mystery Grazier Round Shot

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 2

Mr. Ronald Lachian Leslie, aged 48, a well-known Western grazier, who resides at Manly, was found dead, huddled up in the back seat…

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Police Clean Up Eastern Suburbs Robberies. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 4

The police to-day arrested six men in the city and Surry Hills and preferred charges of stealing against them. As a result of these arrests it is believed many…

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Tamworth Murder Jury Fail to Agree Accused to Stand Second Trial. Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 5

The jury failed to agree in the case in which Cyril Thompson was charged with the murder of Frederick Thorley. Thompson was committed for trial at the…

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14 Arrests Smuggled Chinese? Ten Celestials Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 4

Police and Customs authorities have now made 14 arrests as the result of investigations into the landing of Chinese at Cremorne…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 4

Two cases of drunkenness were dealt with by Mr. J. Doughan, J.P., at the Grafton Police Court. yesterday morning Alfred Coleman (47), failed to appear…

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Newtown Burglary. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 4

Burglars secured £400 worth of silk frocks and furs when they entered the shop of J. Rosen, at Newtown, last night. They gained an entrance through the…

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Leslie Murder Three Brothers Charged Bail Refused Looking for a Motive. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 5

At the Central Police Court, to-day Herbert William Higgs, 36, picture show proprictor, William Guy Higgs, 26, salesman and Bruce Doubleday Higgs, 21, clerk,…

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Theft of Cart and Harness

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 6

In the Toowoomba Police Court Wiliam Abel, aged 26, laborer, was charged that at Canungra, on June 2 he stole a set of spring cart hardness and a spring…

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Glen Innes Assault Case. Moree

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 6

The police have arrested a young man in connection with the assault on a settler's wife at Glen Innes last week:…

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Alleged Assault on Wife Death of Victim. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 5

At the City Court John Kennett, 60, was remanded on a charge of serious assault on his wife Julia, aged 58. It is alleged that accused kicked his wife, who…

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Wife Charged With Shooting Husband Inverell Sensation Domestic Differences. Inverell

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1927 · page 5

Norman Clifford Hoey, shearing [?] tractor, was shot dead, while sitting in motor [?]r in Byron street, Inverell, night. He received the charge in…

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The Balkans Story of Murder Scheme. Belgrade

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 October 1927 · page 5

"Politika" asserts that frontier authorities at Tsaribrod seized confidential documents addressed by the Pro-Macedonian Revolutionary Association to a…

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Ku Klux Violence In Alabama 10[?] Persons Charged Barbaric Terrorism. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 October 1927 · page 5

Likening the conditions in the Crenshaw county, Alabama, to those existing at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, a special Grand Jury at Luverne…

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Ghastly Crime Woman's Dismembered Body Found on River Bank Police Dragging for Trunk London

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 October 1927 · page 5

A SHOCKING TRAGEDY, RESEMBLING THE LONDON TRUNK MURDER, HAS COME TO LIGHT AT GLASGOW…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1927 · page 4

The Quarterly Licensing Court was held yesterday, before the chairman, Mr. E. A. Mahony, when the licensing inspector, Sergeant McAlpin, reported that the…

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Industrial Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1927 · page 4

At the Industrial Court yesterday the case Hammet versus Cox was mentioned, and an adjournment was granted for fourteen days…

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Chinese Agent Charged Smuggling Prohibited Immigrants. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1927 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Lee Lin, 55, a Chinese, described as an agent, was charged with being directly concerned in smuggling prohibited immigrants into the…

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Son Arrested the Glasgow Murder. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1927 · page 5

James Mackay, 40, has been arrested at Glasgow and charged with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Arbuckle. The police visited a house occupied by…

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