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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

1,576 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 48 of 79

Local and General Quarter Sessions and District Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 4

The Court of Quarter Sessions and District Court will sit at Grafton on Tuesday next…

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Reparation Frauds Alsatian Banker Sentenced. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 5

An Alsatian banker, Lucien Levy, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for participating in reparation frauds, involving £600,000. He was ordered to…

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Lunch Hour Theft "Hotel Barbers" at Work

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 1

A daring theft by two men of the type generally known as "hotel barbers" was carried out during the lunch hour at the Royal Hotel, Casino, on Tuesday, when a…

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Strikers Dealt with Demonstration at Hudson's Sequel in Police Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 4

Incidents which occurred at a mass demonstration of pickets outside Hudson's timber yards, at Glebe, on July 19, had their sequel at the Glebe Court to-day,…

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Bodily Harm Woman Car Driver Charged Allegations of Drunkenness. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 4

At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions to-day, Margaret Forsyth, wife of the wellknown bookmaker, was charged with having done grievous bodily harm to Harry…

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Justifiable Homicide N.T. Aboriginal Murder Case. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 5

In order to protect his lubra, Wilaberta Jack fired and killed another aborigine. Harry Henty. At the trial yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of justifiable…

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A Busy Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 3

There is sufficient matter before the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to keep the Judges employed until the end of the year. At present 39 disputes of…

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Police Attacked by Glebe Labor Aldermen. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 5

Labor aldermen of Glebe Council last night delivered violent speeches in the local council against the police and volunteer timber workers…

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Land Court Grafton Homestead Farms Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 5

In the Land Court a reference was submitted by the Minister for the return to the Local Land Board for rehearing of further consideration of application by…

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Decree Absolute High Court's Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 7

The High Court held to[?] that once a d[?] for the dissolution of a marriage has been made absolute the court had no [?] to review if no matter what…

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Police Tracker Four Years for Serious Offence Darwin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 5

In the Criminal Court, an aboriginal police tracker was found guilty of an offence against a young native woman, and sentenced to four years'…

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Finger Prints Patient Who Lost Memory Police Take a Hand. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 5

Cyril Mott, who was recently discovered in Goulburn Hospital suffering from complete loss of memory and who arrived in Sydney yesterday morning, was…

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Shot Dead 'Gunman' Gaffney's End 'I Want His Blood' Story in Coroner's Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1929 · page 5

The inquest concerning the death of George Gaffney, 24, known as "Gunman" Gafney, who was fatally wounded during a shooting affray at Maroubra…

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Octogenarian Caretaker Charged with Serious Offence. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1929 · page 5

James Morphy, 86, native of New South Wales, was convicted yesterday at the Perth Police Court on a charge of unlawfully assaulting two girls each 10…

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5000 Swiss Francs Young Migrant Charged with Fraud. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1929 · page 5

The police boarded the liner Oronsay when she arrived at the heads yesterday and arrested a young man was later charged with fraud involving 5000 Swiss…

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Bookmakers Arrested Crowd Hooted Police: Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1929 · page 2

The police arrested seven men at Harold Park coursing meeting last night and charged them with betting after sunset. For a time it appeared as though…

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Young Bride Battered With Hammer During Husband's Absence Dying Depositions Taken Police Searching for Armed Man. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1929 · page 4

Mrs Cassie Patterson 25, who married only late Tuesday, was a victim of a brutal attack at her home in Allandale road Cessrnock yesterday,…

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Chang Charged Murder of Son of Chinese Prince. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 5

As the result, of the mysterious shooting affray at Beppu, the Japanese hot spring resort, on Saturday, Chang Sung Chang, a former war lord, together with…

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Theft at Buccarumbi

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 4

In the Glen Innes Police Court, on Friday morning, before Mr. J. E. Mc'Culloch, P.M., Herbert John Evans was charged with stealing a stockwhip, razor, strop and…

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Quarter Sessions and District Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 4

The Court of Quarter Sessions and District Court will sit at Grafton to-day. His Honor, Judge Mocatta, will preside, and Mr. R, J. Browning will appear as…

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