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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

1,576 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 56 of 79

Man Sentenced in England Was Deported From Australia. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 5

A Magistrate at Woodgreen sentenced Benjamin Fieldhouse to six months' imprisonment for obtaining £10 under false pretences…

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Drus Traffic Nine Months' Gaol for Woman. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day Alice Snowden was sentenced to nine mouths' imprisonment with hard labor for supplying cocaine. Evidence was given that the…

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Married the Man Woman. Charged With. Maliciously Wounding. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 5

When the case in which Eileen Hannon, 20, was charged at Newcastle Court with having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on Charles James. Jones was…

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MURDER? Melb. Society Girl Found Dying on Bed Skull Fractured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4

A sensation has been caused by the death of Norma Rhys McLeod, 29, a well-known society girl, who died yesterday, shortly after, she was…

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Champion Boxer. Awarded £120 by Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 8

Edward Monson, middleweight champions boxer of Australia, was awarded £120 the [?] amount claimed, in the Jury Court to-day…

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Worked Once Crder for Tobacco. Police Were Waiting. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4

A wholesale firm, dealing largely in tobacco, on Saturday received a telephone call requesting that a retail tobacco firm, which was named, be supplied with about…

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'Woman From Country' Alleged Boarding House Thief Arrested by Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4

Detectives yesterday arrested an expensively dressed young woman in connection with a large number of robberies. It is alleged that she stole hundreds of…

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Court Sensation Judge and Crown Prosecutor Allegations at Glen Innes Sessions. Glen Innes

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4

When the case in which Rody Daniel O'Grady was charged with embezzling large sums of money from the Tenterfield Council, by whom he was employed,…

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Fitzroy Street Smash Police Court Sequel

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 4

As a sequel to the Fitzroy street smash on Tuesday, William Young (53), Chinese herbalist and market gardener, was charged before Mr. J. Doughan, J.P., at…

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Police for Palestine. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 5

A hundred young men, who have been recruited in London for police service in Palestine, leave to-morrow morning to take up their duties. They are going…

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Seven Years Ex-Town Clerk Sentenced Cash Deficiency Over £7000 Defalcations Over Long Period

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 3

With impassive countenance' Rody Daniel O'Grrady, ex-Town Clerk of Tenterfield, received the Judge's Sentence of seven years' hard labor…

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Court Sensation Judge and Crown Prosecutor Involved Alleged Discussion of Case at Dining Table Denied

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 3

What promised to be a sensational case opened in even more sensational circumstances than expected, when Rody Daniel O'Grady, at the Glen Innes Court of…

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Dance Trophy Lost. Leads to Assault Charge

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 3

An incident at a dance held [?] Glenreagh on August 22 led to [?] case at Coramba Police Court Tuesday last, when Isaac Sylvest[?]…

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Brutal Assault Man Punched and Robbed Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 4

Albert Morris, 37 employee of the Bankstown Council, informee the police that while on his way home last night a stranger asked him for a matel…

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S.M. Solicitor Scene in Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 4

There was an unusual scene at the Central Summons Court to-day when Mr. Gates, S.M., ordered a constable to remove Mr. Dovey, solicitor, who was…

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Court at Hospital Evidence at Bedside ''The Grey Shadow" case SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 4

A court was Constituted in a ward at a Private hospital at paddington to-day, when Joseph Ryan 29, motor driver, who has been referred to as the "Grey…

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In Circus Soviet Murder Trial Monk and Abbess Charged. Kieff

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 5

Soviet freakishness is exc[?]elling itself in an amazing trial, which has begun here. Yevlad Tzckhun, Archdeacon of the Lavra Monastery, is charged with…

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N.Z. HORROR Eight Burned To Death Murder--then Fire? Police Baffled. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 4

The theory that some, and perhaps all, of the eight persons whose bodies were found after a fire at Himitangi, were murdered is advanced, following…

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Sequel to Thrashing Charge of Assault Dismissed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 3

When Reginald Pyner saw Albert Goodfellow thrashing his 12-year-old son he punched the father. Yesterday, at the Parramatta Court, Goodfellow charged…

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Arbitration Court No Remedy for Striking Unions Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 3

In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Chief Judge Dethridge said punitive provisions against strikes were futile. The only remedy, he thought, was to deprive…

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