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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Six Months Timber Strikers Sentenced Attack on Volunteers Organised Movement to Use Violence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 5

When the five men charged with an attack on a number of volunteer timber workers, was resumed at the Balmain court to-day, all the defendants…

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Pie Stall Tragedy Naval Man on Murder Charge. Wellington (N. Z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 5

Erie Matthews petty officer on the warship Diomede, has been arrested on a charge of the murder of John Stevens, who was found unconscious in a street…

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Shrieked Deaf and Dimb Demonstrate Not Afraid of Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 5

A large number of deaf and dumb people gathered at the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society's rooms last night, to protest against the dismissal of their welfare…

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Wound Above Heart Woman Found Dead Husband Charged with Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

Mrs. May Antin, 44, was found dead at her home at Bankstown last night with a bullet wound above the heart. She had been living apart from her…

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Maclean Police Court Different Number Plates Motorist Fined

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

At Maclean Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Clarence Grant McPhee pleaded, guilty, through Mr. T. Lobban, to a charge of…

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Woman Sentenced to Five Years. Armidale

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 7

Alma Smith was sentenced to five years imprisonment at the Armidale Quarter Sessions, to-day oil a charge of feloniously slaying Marion Frazer, at…

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New Zealand Murder. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 7

The body of Samuel McAlees, a, road worker, was found lying on a lonely part of the mountain near Opotiki yesterday, and the police believe he was murdered…

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Slang in Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 4

When Mr. Cullity was rebuked for having used slang in the cross-examination of a witness in the Melbourne General Sessions, he told Judge Moule that…

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Clark Murder Case Appeal Against Death Sentence Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

Alister Jenner Clark, who was sentenced to death at the Central Criminal Court in March last, on a charge of having murdered his wife, appealed to-day to the…

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COURT Held By The Queen Asmosphere of Joy 500 Debutantes Presented. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

The first court this season was unique because for the first time since Queen Victoria it has been held by the Queen of England…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 4

In the Grafton Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., John Wilson, 58, was charged with having behaved in an offensive manner [?] Prince…

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Dastardly Outrage 12 Years Gaol for Elderly Laborer. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 4

In the Criminal Court, Joseph Finn, 63, laborer, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, for having criminally assaulted a married woman, aged 19, in the Huon…

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Police Patrol Pursuit Alleged Hold-up Gang. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 4

Acting on information that a man had been held up by three other men at the [?] of a revolver in the city, the police patrol set off in pursuit and succeeded in…

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Three Crimes Shrouded in Mystery Sydney Police Baffled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 5

Three recent crimes are still shrouded in mystery. Phillip Jeffs, who was shot in an under, world vendetta at Kensington during last…

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Month in Gaol Drunken Driver Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Robert Ward, 27, traveller, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and disqualified from holding a motor license for 12…

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Perjury Young Man Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 6

At Darlinghurst Sessions to-day Charles Morgan, 21, was sentenced to twelve months for perjury. It was alleged that when he was…

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Wife Murder Clark Appeal Fails. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

The Full Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed the appeal of Alister Jenner Clark, who was convicted on a charge of having murdered his wife by poisoning her…

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Clerk Charged Alleged False Statement to Deceive Creditors. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day, James Gordon McLaren, 29, clerk, was remanded on a charge of having made a false statement concerning the assets of…

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Shots Fired Woman with Revolver Attempted Murder Charge. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

At Newcastle a young woman suddenly drew a revolver from the pocket of her jumper, and firing several shots as she ran, chased…

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Referendum Military Instead of Police Extraordinary Application. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 6

In the Full Court to-day Justice James beard an extraordinary application by George Thomas Davison 80, of Georges Town, who asked for a mandamus to…

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