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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Slashed with a Razor Vindictive Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 7

Because he refused to give a beggar two shillings, William Thomas, 26, an employee of the Prince Edward Theatre, Castlereagh street, was slashed with a…

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Police Association Smoke Social

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 4

The third annual smoke social of the Grafton branch of the Police Association, to be hold in the Criterion Hall on Saturday evening next, promises to be equally…

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Smashed Glass Panel South Grafton Incident Two Young Men in Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. C G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., the two young man, Percy Roberts and Sidney Raymond Carr, who on Friday…

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Clashed with Cutting Instrument Alleged Assault in City. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1929 · page 7

Norman McDonald, 23, laborer, was remanded at the Central Court on a charge of having assaulted William Thomas, occasioning him actual bodily harm…

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Surry Hills Murder No Clue to Assist Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1929 · page 4

Although exhaustive inquiries have been made over a period of eight days. the police have been unable to discover a single clue which would materially…

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Horse Stealing Charge. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1929 · page 7

Norman [?]ass. 18. was sentenced to three months' imprisonment to-day for horse stealing. The sentence was suspended on the accused entering into a…

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Death Sentence Passed S.A. Murder Case. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1929 · page 4

The trial of Frederick Carr, who was charged with the murder of his wife at Birkenhead, has been concluded. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the…

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Commerce Chamber Police Buildings Deputation to the Attorney General Quarterly Meeting at Tenterfield

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1929 · page 6

A meeting of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce was held at the Town Hall, Grafton, last night, when there were present: Messrs. J. B. McDougall…

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Babcock, Wilcox, Ltd. Charge of Corruption High Court Confirms Conviction Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1929 · page 4

The Full High Court, by a majority, to-day confirmed the conviction against Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., on a charge of having at Sydney corruptly given Silas…

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Coolamon Murder Nolan Sentenced to Death. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 5

At the Supreme Court, Frank Nolan was charged with having murdered Henry Skinner, at Coolamon, and was found guilty and sentenced to death…

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Sentence of Five Years Theft of £2922. BRISBANE

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 5

A sentence of five years imprisonment was imposed on William Rode, land and commission agent, on five charges of theft. Rode admitted the theft of £2922, but the…

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Peculiar Assault Charge Attempt to Kidnap? Father Bound Over. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 4

An extraordinary story was told at the Hornsby police court to-day, when Edith Winton, a young married woman, charged her father, William Moore, a man named…

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Charred Bank Notes Man Arrested and Charged Robbery at Enmore. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 5

Following an alleged attempt to pass certain charred bank notes, detectives, last night, arrested a man and charged him with haying stolen £2700 from the safe…

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Local and General Police Association Smoke Social

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 4

The honorary secretaries to the Social Committee of the Grafton branch of the Police Association, Messrs. L. R. McLeay and J. E. Forsyth, received a telephone…

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Lying Amid Live Bullets' Woman Found Badly Injured Refused the Police Information. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 4

A woman was found lying among a heap of 50 live bullets in the hall of a house in Riley street, Surry Hills, last night. She apparently had been brutally…

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Alleged Theft

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 October 1929 · page 4

Joseph Harold Alfred Appleby (32). Herbert Stewart (38) and David Joseph Casey (41) were charged, before Mr. J Doughan, J.P., at the Grafton Police…

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Gelignite in Court Nervous Magistrate Railway Station Robbery. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 October 1929 · page 5

At North Sydney police court to-day, John Williams, 23, fireman, Patrick McCarthy, 22, laborer, and Arthur Williams, 27, laborer, were charged with having…

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Bottle of Beer Leads to Alleged Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 October 1929 · page 5

Thomas Price was walking along Campbell street last night with a bottle of beer of his coat pocket when three men, who had been lounging in the shadows of a…

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Car Collision Police Sergeant Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 October 1929 · page 5

Details of a sensational motor car collision in Centennial Park last night show that one of the cars was overturned and the other, driven by a woman, dashed…

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Sentenced Hit and Run Motorist. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 October 1929 · page 3

In the Supreme Court yesterday, Jeame Billett, 29, who was found guilty of having killed Stella Waite, at a tramway stopping place, at New Farm, and then driving…

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