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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

1,819 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 57 of 91

Brushgrove Police Station

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

Mr. A. J. Pollack, M.L.A., has been advised by the Chief Secretary's Department in reply to his representations on behalf of Brushgrove and Cowper District…

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South Grafton Police Building

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

With regard to personal representations made by Mr. A. J. Pollack, M.L.A., in South Grafton recently, and the inspection subsequently made by the Minister…

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More Police Sixty Men Complete Training Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

Sixty constables who have completed their period of training at Sydney Police Depot have been detached to the metropolitan district. They have been sent to…

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Unemployed in W.A. Objection to Police Interference. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

A timber workers' meeting at Perth carried a resolution protesting strongly against the Government's use of the police to break up unemployed…

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Judge Beeby's Fractured Leg Arbitration Court Postponed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

Matters set down before Judge Beeby at the Sydney sittings of the Federal Arbitration Court next week have been postponed indefinitely. Judge Beeby sustained…

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Sued Council Brought His Jury to Court Strange Case in Victoria. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 6

An unusual case was before the Heidelberg police court yesterday, when Rupert Millane summoned the president and councillors and ratepayers of the local…

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Savidge Case Did Police Commit Perjury? Lord Birkenhead's Frankness No Cause for "Hysterical Indignation," London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 5

In a frank speech in the House or Lords, when the reports of the Savidge tribuna[?] were considered, Lord Birkenhead, on behalf of the Home Office,…

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Newcastle Magistrate Collapsed and Died. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 5

William Perry, Newcastle Stipendiary Magistrate, collapsed and died last night after having complained of an attack of indigestion. Mr. perry is a brother of…

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Police Patrol Chase Shots Fired at Stolen Car. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 5

In an effort to stop a man in a stolen car at St. Kilda last night the police patrol fired several shots. The stolon car was pulled up, skidded…

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Man Stabbed in Eye Police Arrest Victim's Father Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 5

William Gordon, 35, railway ganger, is alleged to have been stabbed in the eye during an altercation at his home at Randwick last night…

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92 Arrests Police Raid Cafe Curious Crowd Block Traffic. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 5

A body of police raided the Cosmopolitan Club, Pitt street, last night and effected 92 arrests on a charge of beings found on unlicensed premises. A man…

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Police Court Assortment of Charges Eviction of Tenant Sought

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 7

A number of minor cases were heard before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning. DRUNKENNESS…

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District Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 4

There will be a sitting of the District Court at Grafton on Tuesday, August 21. The last day for entering plaints is August 3 (Friday next)…

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Father Charged Son Stabbed During Quarrel Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Alexander Gordon, 58, engine driver, was remanded on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm on his son, William, at…

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To Save Herself Girl's Story of Assault. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 5

The police are now nearly certain that the girl's story of an attack by a masked man at her home at Tighe's Hill on Saturday night was a myth. They…

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Sentence Increased Appeal to High Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 5

In the High Court to-day, Alexander Lindsay Whittaker appealed against the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal in increasing to five years, the sentence…

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£250 Paid Into Court Brisbane Watersiders' Secretary. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 4

A. Brown, branch secretary of the Watersiders' Federation, to-day paid the fine of £100, with £150 costs, imposed upon him by Mr. Archdall, Police…

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Mayor in Court Charge of Driving While Drunk. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 5

The Mayor of St. Peters, Edward Burrows, 56, was charged at Newtown court to-day with having driven a motor lorry while under the influence of liquor, and…

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Law Society Appeal to High Court Charge Against Ex-attorney-general. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 5

The Southern Law Society to-day appealed to the High Court against the majority order of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in refusing to strike the name…

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Man Sentenced Woman Bound Over. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 5

At Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Clyde Harmon, 29, estate agent, who, with Marjorie Catherine Harmon, 22, was convicted of having assaulted and robbed…

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