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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

1,576 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 55 of 79

Don't Fight Police Chief to Footballers Junes Wins Maher Cup. Junee

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 2

Junee beat Cootamundra for the Maher Cup to-day by two points to nil. It was a good, clean fought, dashing game. Before the game commenced, Police…

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Jeffs Acquitted Darlinghurst Assault Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 5

Phillip Jeffs, 35, salesman, and William Archer, 35, baths proprietor, were acquitted at Darlinghurst Session to-day on a charge of having assaulted Charles…

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Murder of Aborigine. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 4

At Darwin Court seven aborigines were committed for trial on a charge of having murdered another aborigine, named…

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Youth Sent to Gaol Assaulted Constable. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 5

At Glebe Court to-day James McPhec, 18 was sentenced to a month's hard labor on a charge of assaulting Constable Baker during a mass picketing…

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Gas Poisoning Man in Unconscious Condition Was Charged with Serious Offence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 5

John Smyth, 29, a well known confectioner, was found early to-day in an unconscious condition, leaning over a gas iet at the home of his brother in…

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Woollahra Bank Hold-up Three Men Charged Magistrate Refuse Bail. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day, thomas Kelly, 39, physical instructor, Charles Passsmore, 57, agent, and Joseph Williams, 29, showman, were each charged…

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Cheque for £1775 Woman Charged with Forgery Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 5

A well-dressed woman was arrested by detectives in the city last, night, on the allegation that she had forged and uttered a cheque for £1775. The cheque, it…

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Police Association Annual Smoke Social

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 4

The members of the Grafton branch of the Police Association of New South Wales have decided to hold their third annual smoke social and reunion at the Criterion…

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Butcher's Shop Hold Up Two men sentenced to five years. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 5

William Wilton, 29, and William Nelson, 30, were each Sentenced to five years' imprisonment at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, for having held up Michael…

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Missing Man May Be on North Coast Police Notifed to Keep Look-out. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 5

The police in the Northern and North Coast districts of the State have been in structed to keep a close look-out for Edgar Clifford Treloar, district manager of…

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Arbitration Court Mr. Ravins Reply to Mr. Hughes "Playing with Words." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 5

Replying to Mr. Hughes' advocacy of the continuation of the Federal Arbitration Court, the Premier, Mr. Bavin, said to-day the fact was that since the…

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Two Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 4

In the Inverell Police Court before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., John William of having came up for sentence on a charge of having refused to pay £210 for board…

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Urunga Court Italian Fishermen Prosecuted

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 3

At Urunga Police Court, before Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, the following fishermen were prosecuted by Mr. E. C. Smithers, Fisheries Inspector:--…

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Shock for Police Woman in Sailor's Uniform. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 1

Following on a brawl at a party at Darlinghurst last night the police arrested four men on a charge of riotous behaviours. On arrival at the police [?]…

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Fight at Dance Police Arrest Fifteen Men. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 1

Fifteen arrests were made by the police during an affray between dancers outside a dance hall at Croydon Park last night. It is stated that a party was in progress…

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Swift Police Action Two Men Arrested in Hiding. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 5

Two men were arrested in hiding in the basement of the Excelsior Supply Company, George street west, fo-day. Swift police action followed the discovery that…

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Taxable Income Realisation of Capital Important High Court Decision Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 1

In an appeal case in the High Court it was held that the proceeds from a sale of timber were not taxable as income, being realisation of capital…

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Sales Manager's Claim £2000 for Alleged Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 5

In the Jury Court to-day, Pannteley Whittington Roope, sales manager, claimed £2000 damages for alleged assault, from Angus and Robertson, Ltd., the well…

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GREENIE . Alleged 'Ring In' at Far Western Meetings Five Men Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 5

Th trial of five men, charged with conspiracy in connection with an alleged "ring in" of the racing mare Greenie at country meetings,…

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Plan to Elope With His Own Daughter Alleged Against Father Story in Newcastle Court. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 5

An a mazing story was told at the local court to-day when Harold [?]aver, 36, moulder, was Charged With having committed an offence against his…

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