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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Hospital Employees Access to Arbitration Court Wanted. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 5

Members of the Hospital, Dispensary and Asylum Employees' Union of Australia at a mass meeting of members decided to affiliate with the State…

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Dance Hall Assault

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 4

Norman Thompson was sentenced to four months' hard labor at Morce Police Court for assaulting Norman Walter. Clarence Rooke at a dance hall…

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Twenty Years Gaol Sequel to Belgrade Shooting. Belgrade

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 5

Ratchitch, who was charged with the murder of Stephen Raditch in Parliament House in June last year, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment…

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Life Sentence Young French Millionaire Murder of Taxi Driver. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 5

After ten days' hysterical scenes at Limoges, in which crowds outside the courts daily demanded his death, the young millionaire Beau Brummel Charles…

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Police Find £1000 in Safe During Drug Traffic Raid. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 4

Police and Customs officials carried out raids on houses in Harris street, Ultimo, and Foster, street, city, to-day, and took possession of about 30…

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'Wastes Time' German View of British Court Procedure. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 5

Cross-examination of witnesses, by counsel, the normal British procedure, was tried for the first time in a German law court. It was watched by many lawyers…

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Hit on Head Man and Woman Injured Police Make Arrest. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 4

Alarmed by a woman's screams, Henry Giles, a boarder in a house in Dandenong road, Windsor, late last night rushed into the room occupied by Mrs. Alvina Helen…

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Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd), Cornelius Sullivan pleaded guilty to. charges of drunkenness and…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 4

Before the Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. L. G. Curr-Boyd pressiding, P. H. Weatherstone, agent for Tooth and Company, was granted…

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Adequate Police Supervision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 5

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Chaffev, said to-day there is adequate police supervision on the Coalfields to see that law, and order are maintained. The police…

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District Court and Quarter Sessions

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 4

The District Court and Court of Quarter Sessions will open at the Grafton Courthouse to-day, before Judge Mocatta. Mr. R. J. Browning will appear as Crown…

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Murder and Suicide Well Known Actress and Actor New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 5

Margaret Lawrence, one of the most noted actresses in America, was murdered in her city apartment by an actor, Louis Bennison, who committed suicide…

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Justice Stephen New Supreme Court Judge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 5

Justice Stephen was sworn in to-day as a member of the Supreme Court. A big muster of both branches of the legal profession was present, together with…

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Found Dead in Bed Well Known Police Officer. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 5

Inspector Benjamin Trathen, officer in charge of George street north police division, was found dead in bed by his wife. Death was due to heart failure. He was…

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Six Months Gaol Assault on Timber Worker. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 5

At Balm a in Court to-day James Phegas 26, and James Fitzpatrick, 26, both laborers, were charged with having at Rozel on May 25, in company with other me…

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Police Station Burnt

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 4

Word has been received of the accidental destruction by fire of the police station at Ravenshoe. North Queensland. The outbreak occurred, at 4 a.m. on…

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Quarter Sessions Breaking, Entering and Stealing a Kempsey Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 2

At the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday before his Honor Judge, Mocatta, Timothy Roy Donovan, aged 21, pleaded, guilty to a charge of breaking and…

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Gaol on One Charge to Stand Trial on Another Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 5

At the Parramatta Court to-day Per Roy Jones, 19, laborer, was committ for trial on a charge of having assault a married woman and committed an a…

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Bag Snatcher Fired Shot at Girls Nine Months Gaol and £30 Pine Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day, John Hampson, 18, laborer, was sentenced to nine months gaol, on a charge of stealing a handbag belonging to Lorna Chadleigh…

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Sordid, Story New York Tragedy Actor and Actress Murder and Suicide. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 5

While there is not a scintilla of further fact to explain the murder of the actress, Margaret Lawrence, by Louis Bennison, investigators have…

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