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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Blackmail Charges Three Men Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1929 · page 5

Francis Reynolds, 29, Rov Beck, 24, and Stanley Stewart, 27. who were convicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions during the week for conspiracy to blackmail a man…

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Conspiring to Steal Firemen Sentenced. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1929 · page 5

Judge Macindoe, in the General Sessions, sentenced John Melbourne Wilkins, 28, and John Leonard Barr, 25, members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, to…

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Robbing the Dead Former Constable Sentenced. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1929 · page 5

Declaring, that he had been found guilty of larceny of a particularly contemptible kind, Judge Macindoe sentenced Charles Leslie Stewart, a former constable, to nine…

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Police Impersonators Redfern Woman's Story. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1929 · page 5

A woman residing at Redfern informed the police that she was aroused from her sleep at 2 o'clock this morning by a knock on the front door. Upon…

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Two Years Gaol Ex-cabinet Minister Sentenced. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 July 1929 · page 5

M. Klotz, who was seven times Finance Minister and a signatory of the peace treaty at Versailles, who was charged with uttering cheques when he had…

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Local and General Police Court Case Adjourned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 4

Mr. D. W. Macpherson at the Grafton Police Court yesterday applied for an adjournment of the case, in which the police will proceed against Charles…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 4

At the Small Debts Court, yesterday the Postmaster General's Department proceeded against Thomas Reid for the recovery of the sum of £1011…

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Bullet in Stomach Boy Charged with Shooting. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 5

Charles Rachford, 14, was admitted to hospital on Saturday suffering with a bullet wound in the stomach, and later another boy, aged 16, was arrested and…

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Impounding Pigs Morris V. Barn[?]er Case the Magistrate's Decision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 7

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. gave, his reserved judgment in the case of Morris v. Barnier, in which the plantiff…

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Stealing Car and Money Threw £40 Into the River. Devonport (Tas.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 5

At the local court Alfred Miles, 27, Stanley Robinson, 21, and Edward Cornelius, 25, pleaded guilty to stealing a motor car from Ulverstone and £105…

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Divorce Court. Two Cases at Bellingen

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 3

Two divorce petitions were hear[?] by Judge Mocatta at the Bellinge[?] court last week. H. W. Smith, Glenreagh, sought [?]…

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Coal Commission Open Court To-morrow. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 5

The chairman of the Coal Commission announced that the Commission would sit in open court on Wednesday and hear evidence and the addresses of counsel in…

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Women Fight in Courtyard Police Had to Intervene. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 5

A few minutes after James Deyine, 37, was fined £50 for being in possession of an unlicensed pistol there was a scuffle in the courtyard of Central-Police Station…

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Stock Returns Failure to Lodge Offenders Before the Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 7

Charles Waldo Sabine, stock inspector, acting on behalf of the Grafton Pastures Protection Board, at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, proceeded…

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Basher Gangs Mr. J. Garden's Pets 'Raised His Hat to Them' Allegations Against Police. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1929 · page 5

Addressing a meeting of timber strikers at Islington the secretary of the Sydney Trades and Labor Council, J. Garden, declared that he raised his hat to the…

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Heated Words Then Three Shots Man Wounded in Back Woman Charged with Attempted Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 4

Sensational shooting occurred at the Fairfield railway station this afternoon, when a young woman walked into a room where a number…

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Thief Sentenced Seventy Charges Withdrawn. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 5

After Albert Williams, 38, laborer, had been convicted at the Central Police Court to-day on two charges of robbery, and sentenced to twelve months…

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Car Stealing Five Young Men Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 5

The police have arrested five young men on charges of motor stealing. Ten motor cycles and live cars have been recovered, some from dams and river beds,…

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Charge of Wife Murder. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 8

The Coroner to-day committed Fred Carr for trial on a charge of having murdered his wife, Maude Harriett Carr. on June 28 or 29. Acting on the…

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Young Men Remanded Alleged Theft and Housebreaking. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 5

Harry Manley Schooer, 19, who was arrested at Darlinghurst last night, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of theft, and was…

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