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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

1,576 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 47 of 79

Bribe Charges Police Officers Suspended. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 4

It is reported that a detective sergeant and a plainclothes Constable were suspended yesterday as a result of allegations of bribery made during the trial of Mark…

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Insurance Swindling 'Policy Holder's Death' W.A. Doctor Sent to Gaol. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 5

Dr. David Ewin McLeod, 38, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment yesterday on three charges of swindling insurance companies…

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Police Phones Cut Paris Communists Arrested. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 5

Possibly, as reprisal for the round-up of Communists which has been taking place all the week, to prevent a big anti-military demonstration on August…

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Bank Hold-up Sensational Sequel Young Man Shoots Himself When Questioned by Police. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 4

There was a sensational sequel to a bank hold-up by an armed and masked man at Griffith this morning. This was an attempted suicide by a…

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Ill-fated H47 Finding Of Court-Martial Navigating Officer of L12 Dismissed and Reprimanded. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 5

Whether or not the all important verbal message was delivered to the Captain of the submarine, L12, a few minutes before its disastrous collision…

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Stock Returns Police Court Prosecutions Disregard of Summmonses

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 4

Further prosecutions were conducted by the Pastures Protection Board, at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, against a number of…

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Drug Traffic Man Charged at Canberra. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 5

Roland Sanderson Talbot, employed as a porter at the Hotel Acton, Canberra, was arrested and charged with having administered drugs and having obtained…

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Nine Months Breaking And Entering Four Men Sentenced Allegations Against Detectives. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 4

Albert Sacgar, Keith Gray and Albert Clarke Clarke charged at the Parramatta Sessions to-day with breaking, entering and stealing at Liverpool…

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After the Sale Well-Known Citizen Charged Drunkenness Alleged Constable Severely Cross

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 1

The hearing was proceeded with at the Grafton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. P.M., of the charges against Charles William Cribb…

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Flood Warning Clarence to Hunter All Police Notified

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 4

Superintendent Parker, of Grafton, and all police stations in the areas mentioned received the following flood warning from the Weather Bureau,…

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Communists and Police Number Killed and Wounded .Belgrade

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 5

As a precaution against a Communist rising, planned throughout Europe for August 1, the police surrounded a secret meeting at a Reds' hotel in the village…

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Valuation Court Copmamhurst Shire Council Three More Settlements

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 4

In the Valuation Appeal Court, Grafton, yesterday, Mr. R. C. Law, who appeared for the Copmanhurst Shire Council announced that three more settlements had…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 4

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Small Debts Court, Grafton, yesterday, Gordon Yardy, of Kangaroo Creek, proceeded against George Fletcher, of Coutts…

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Rural Workers Access to Arbitration Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 4

A meeting of the A.W.U. to-day decided to send a deputation to interview the Acting Premier, Mr. Buttenshaw, with a request that the Government should not…

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Sidney Case Verdict Of Murder Inquest on Exhumed Bodies Acute Arsenical Poisoning. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 5

A verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown was the verdict of the Coroner's jury at the conclusion of the inquest in…

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Six Months Gaol Thirty-four Stealing Charges. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 5

At the North Sydney Court to-day Harold Schoer 26, was sentenced to twelve months goal for stealing from a dwelling. On another stealing charge he was…

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Heavy Fine for Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 7

In the Forbes Court, one day last week, Tom Smith, 19, was charged with assaulting Albert Gosper, at a dance in the local Town Hall. "Only for your age."…

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Thrilling Chase Alleged Car Thief Excitement at Tweed Heads Police Court Sequel

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 5

A sensational chase after an alleged motor car thief at Tweed Heads on Monday culminated in the arrest of Thomas Owen Goswych…

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Girl's Nose Cut Off Assailant Sentenced to Three Years. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 5

At the Gladstone Court to-day. Thomas Arghryopulos. 28, a Greek, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Katherina…

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Year's Gaol Reckless Motor Driver Same Sentence at Two Trials Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 4

At Darlinghurst Sessions to-day James Campbell Paterson, 35, motor manager, who was convicted of having driven a motor car recklessly, thereby colliding…

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