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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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£2816 Involved. Charge of Stealing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day Trevor Doyle, 46, was charged with having stolen £2816, the proper[?] of the New South Wales Schoolt[?] Federation, of…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 4

Yesterday morning, Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, P.M., in the Grafton Licensing Court, granted an application for the transfer of the license for the Imperial…

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£500 Bail Ellis Murder Charge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 4

Bail in £500 was granted, this afternoon to Alfred Wrigley Ellis, who is charged with the murder of his son, Edward Ellis, jockey…

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'Inhuman Crime' Burwood Inquest Verdict of Murder and Suicide Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 5

An inquest was held by the Parramatta Coroner, at Burwood to-day, into the deaths of Hazel Christina Sly and Frederick Charles Sly…

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Valla Gold Mines. Parties Again Go to Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 3

A complaint by G. A Liddell, of Melbourne, alleging non-fulfilment of conditions on the Valla Gold Mines lease, came before Mr. E. A. Mahony…

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Mad Rush To See Hero's Coffin Paris Tragedy One Dead--scores Hurt Dense Masses Break Police Cordon. Paris

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 5

Tragedy marked the scenes at the Are de Triomphe late this afternoon, where hundreds of thousands passed the beir of Marshal Foch…

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Stealing Wheat

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 2

For stealing 18 bags of wheat at Gunningbland, Lewis Arnold Hohnburg was fined £20, and his uncle, Emil Hohnburg, £25, at the Forbes court. The Magistrate…

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Local and General Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 4

Rupert Taylor, Thomas Ford and Thomas Francis Cavanagh, all of whom were first offenders, failed to appear at the Grafton Police Court yesterday…

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On Big Scale Sheep Stealing in New Zealand Auckland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 4

Further reports of sheep stealing in New Zealand show that 3500 sheep were taken from the Canterbury estate, one flock of 800 ewes completely…

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Party in Vault Shocking Desecration Two Men Sentenced. Geelong

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 5

At Geelong Court to-day W. W. Donnelly, 19, and Norman Cahir, 20 were each sentenced to six months' gaol for having stolen coffin fittings from a vault…

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"Inciting to Assault" Brutal Attack on Timber Worker. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 6

When Charles Hofner, 26, described as a "saw doctor," was charged at the Central Court to-day, with having incited three unknown men to assault James…

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Still at Large Escapee From Long Bay Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 5

William Kirkpatrick, who escaped from Long Bay gaol yesterday, is still at large, although the surrounding country is being combed by the police. His recapture,…

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Fruitless Search Hyde Park Murder Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 4

Since the body of Vera Stirling was found in Hyde Park on Friday morning, a large force of detectives has been inquiring into the affair, but the search for…

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Wife Bartered Strange Tale in Children's Court. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 6

The statement that a man had bartered his wife to another man, in consideration of the payment of a child's funeral expenses, was made in the Children's Court…

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Magistrate and Press

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 4

During the hearing of a case in the Magistrate's Court at Toowoomba, Mr. F. C. M. Burne, P.M., took the opportunity to refer to comments on reports…

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Theft of Electricity

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 3

Albert Lambert Andrews, butcher of Carnegie, Victoria, appeared at the Caulfield Court last week, charged with having wilfully tampered with electric light…

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Policeman Fined for Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 3

Constable James Armour, of Paddington, was last week fined £3, with £717 costs, at Paddington Court on a charge of assaulting Robert George Lynch,…

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Gaol Escapee Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 1

William Hines, 22, who broke out of Leichhardt lockup last month, was recaptured last night, in Campbell street, city…

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Capital Offence. Sentenced to Death. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 2

Arthur Edward Semple was convicted at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of having committed a capital offence on a girl. He was…

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Alleged Serious Offence Two Young Men Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Arthur Sample, 19, and Leslie Giles, 20, were charged with having committed a capital assault on a girl, aged 16…

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