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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Dorrigo Farmer's Wife Charged with Reckless Driving Case Dismissed. Dubbo

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 5

Although a verdict of accidental death was recently given at the Coroner's inquest concerning the death of the late Rev. L. R. Bensley, the Methodist…

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Police Force to Be Strengthened. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 7

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Chaffey, says that the Government is contemplating a further strengthening of the police force. Although there are many…

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Police and Basher Gangs Won't Take Garden's Instructions Police Inspector Knows His Duty. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 5

Referring to the charge of Mr. Jock Garden, that the police endeavored to trap timber strikers by disguising themselves as timber workers, the Chief…

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'Official Matters' Disclosures In Newspaper Court-martial Sequel Air Force Man Charged. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 July 1929 · page 4

A series of disclosures in a Sydney weekly newspaper regarding the Australian Air Force had a sequel in a case before the Military Court-Martial at…

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Exciting Interlude at Workers Compensation Court Girl Strikes Former Employer. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 July 1929 · page 5

There was an exciting incident in the Workers' Compensation Court yesterday when a 20-year-old girl named Dorothy Hannell, who was claiming compensation…

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Turkish Communists Sentenced Gaol for Disseminating Propaganda. Constantinople

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1929 · page 5

The trial of 35 Communists, accused of disseminating Communist propaganda and attempting to undermine the existing regime in Turkey, resulted in 26 of them…

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Mass Picketing Volunteer Workers Abused Disturbance Quelled by Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1929 · page 4

About 2000 timber workers congregated outside the timber yards of George Hudson and Co., at Globe, to-day, and carried out mass picketing…

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Alleged Criminal Assault. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1929 · page 4

The police are searching for two men who, it is alleged, criminally assaulted a girl aged, 17 at Canning Bridge yesterday…

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Congestion in Supreme Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1929 · page 5

Never before has the Supreme Court, been so congested. There are over 400 civil cases awaiting trial, in addition to 500 divorce suits…

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Body in Trunk Parisian Sensation British Army Engineer Arrested Rough Handling by Police. Paris

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1929 · page 5

The parents of Jeannine Bigogne heard piercing screams last night, but did not associate them with their child, until she failed to return from…

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Clash at Glebe Bottles and Stones Police to the Rescue Massed Pickets and Volunteer Workers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1929 · page 4

Volunteer timber workers at George Hudson and Son's yards, Glebe, would have been roughly handled by 2000 pickets but for the strong police force which…

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Escaped Prisoner Sentenced. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 6

At the Criminal Court Frank Lounder. 28, prisoner at the Yatala labor prison, who escaped from the Adelaide Hospital, while being treated for an injury to his…

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Burglar at Grace Bros. Successful Police Raid. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 4

Receiving information that burglars were in Grace Bros store early this morning, 50 police surrounded the big building and found a man lying full length on the…

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Mass Picketing Police Will Take Effective Measures. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 4

The members of the Disputes Committee controlling the timber workers, made it clear to-night that mass picketing, will be continued to-morrow. Messrs. George…

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Perth Riot Unemployed and Police Fourteen Persons Arrested. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 4

Further particulars of clash between the police and the unemployed. show that altogether 14 men were arrested. The police are to be congratulated on the…

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Body in Trunk Mother Passed Murderer the Bigogne Horrcr Battered Suspect in Court. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 5

A poignant fact of the Bigogne murder is that the mother, while searching for her daughter, passed in the corridor of the hotel the…

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S.P. Bet Allegation Against Police Magistrate Adjourns Case Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 5

When Maurice Twoomey, 59, tobacconist, was charged at the Parramatta court to-day with having used his shop for betting purposes, he pleaded guilty under…

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Open-air Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 4

Although there were only six degrees of frost, according to the screen reading at the Warwick post office, last Tuesday morning was considered by Warwick…

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Man and Woman Charged Arson and Fraud Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 5

Alma Brown, 29, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having conspired with James Henry Brown, 21, grocer, to commit arson at Kogarah…

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231 Last Year Additional Police Enrolled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 3

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Chaffey, said to-day that during the year ended June 30, 231 additional police had been added to the force. Last month about 50 new…

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