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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

1,576 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 79

Domestic Tragedy Woman Charged with Attempted Murder. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

In connection with the shooting of Leslie Allie, 27, of Moonah, Louisa Cordwell, otherwise Allie, 46, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder…

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'I'm Unlucky' Attack On Volunteers Six Strikers Charged Balmain Court Crowded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 7

Balmain Court was crowded to-day when six timber workers, appeared on a charge arising out of the alleged assault on volunteers at Leiclihardt…

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Violent Assault Man Kicked and Robbed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Arthur Hickey was brutally assaulted in Railway Square. Sydney, last night. Three men approached him and one struck him a violent blow which knocked…

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Judge to Police Must Learn to Control Tempers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Osward Charles Schnabel, police constable, appealed to Judge Curlewis against his conviction at the Central Court on a charge of having unlawfully…

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Berlin Police Brutal Methods Exposed Shooting of Lone Journalist. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

A message from Berlin says it now appears that Mr. Mackay, the New Zealand journalist, was shot by the police for not the slightest reason. A taxidriver…

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In Woman's Clothes Young Maori in Court Crepe De Chine Frock and High Heeled Shoes. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

A Maori named Kikora Hune Haora, 26, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon on a charge of having masqueraded as a woman and obtained…

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Branson Murder Woman's Body In Tank Two Men Arrested One Released Other Charged with Murder. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

In connection with the murder of Alisa Olive Branson, whose body was found in a water tank near her villa at Les Baux, France, the police have arrested Joseph Giard, (formerly li'er gardener…

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Ten Men Charged Obtained Meal Without Paying. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 6

Ten men, who were charged, with obtaining a meal without paying, appeared, at the Centra Court to -day and were remanded…

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Baby Suffocated Murder Charge Fails. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

The Coroner to -day held an inquiry into the death of Dennis Raymond Hearn, aged eight months, at North Sydney on April 21. The child's mother, Hilda…

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"Cowardly and Brutal" Judge's Comment in Assault Case. Sydney Wednesday

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 3

At the Central Court to -day, James Burns, 36 who was charged with having, in the company of three unknown men, assaulted Jack Raynes, on April 22…

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Wild West Methods' Tasmanian Assault Case Accused Man Acquitted. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

At the Hobart Criminal Court Harry Morris, Council Clerk of Brighton, stated that while, in his office in February last Harold Emery accused him of interfering…

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Berlin Police Proofs of Deadly Shooting. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

A postmortem examination of 17 out of 24 victims disclosed that all where killed by police bullets. The official inquiry was unable to establish that a…

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'Up We All Go' Arrested Man with Detonators L Attempt to Explode in Police Car. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 6

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to -day Frank Fretusn was convicted on a charge of having maliciously' damaged a motor launch valued at £100 and was…

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Drunken Motorists Should Be Sent to Gaol Victorian Magistrate's Opinion. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 5

At the Hawthorne police court a woman J. P. was the only one of five Justices on the bench to agree with the Magistrate, Mr. McNamara, that Leslie…

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Alleged Safe Stealing

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

Following the recent robbery of safes in Tamworth, Wesley Francis, alias Wesley Storey, 18, was charged at Tamworth Police Court with breaking and entering the…

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Dorrigo Police Court. North Dorrigo Case

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 2

At the Dorrigo Police Court on Monday last, before Messrs. A. Walker, J. McSkimming and F. Long, J's.P., Oliver Radcliffe was charged with that…

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To Prevent Cattle Stealing

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

Graziers of Guyra district have formed an association for the prevention of stock stealing. At the inaugural meeting, Colonel H. F. White presided over a large…

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Domain Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

Reginald McAulffe and Arthur Williams were attacked with a bottle and brutally kicked by several men, in the Sydney Domain last night. One victim…

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Alleged Stealing of Motor Car

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

At the Singleton Police Court, Leslie Athol Clegg (alias Smith). John Trevane and Reginald Thomas Hancock (alias "John Mitchell) were each charged with…

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Launch Blown Up. Arrested Man Assaults Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 3

A dire threat was alleged to have been made by Frank Fretus, 38, contractor, convicted at Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday of having blown…

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