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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Three Years Gaol Associate of Razor Slashers and Gunmen. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 5

Norman McDonald, 23, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day on a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm…

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Girl in the Taxi Melbourne Assault Charge Struggle on the Wharf. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 8

John Richard, Wilkinson, 31, was committed for trial at the South Melbourne police Court to-day on a charge of having assaulted Daisy McKenzie, 16, causing…

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Soviet Police Spy Found with His Throat Cut. Warsaw

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 5

Lamboff, a Soviet police spy, Whose dead body was found in a lavatory here, had been ordered to return to Moscow and report upon the Russian colony in…

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Floods in the South Biggest For 40 Years Seven Inches in an Hour Residents Rescued by Police Towns Without Light and Power. Murrumburrah

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 5

The biggest flood for 40 years followed a terrific cloudburst yesterday afternoon. Torrential rains also fell at Harden, Goulburn and Neville…

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Police Methods Arrested Man's Complaint Outspoken Comment by Magistrate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

Outspoken comment was made by Mr. Geddes, S.M., at the Central Court yesterday, when Peter Peterson, 30, laborer, complained that after his arrest on a…

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Poison in Herbs Evidence at Inquest Wife Charged with Murder. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

Giving evidence yesterday, at the inquest into the death of Thomas Henry Flanagan, whose wife has been arrested on a charge of murder, Mrs. Ellen Jane…

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Newtown Murder Police Hot On Trail Foreigner Detained Vengeance of Secret Society? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

There was considerable police activity yesterday concerning the murder of the Italian, Dominico Belle, who was stabbed on Newtown railway…

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Hungarian Murders Another Woman Sentenced to Death. Budapest

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

Lidia Szaes was condemned to death at Szolick for poisoning her father and mother by putting arsenic in their tea in order to inherit a vineyard…

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Ammunition Seized by Police. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 4

Police yesterday seized 150 rounds of 303 military cartridges and a number of revolver bullets from a military cadet who had the ammunition stored at his…

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RETRIAL Norco, Ltd., Robbery Theft of £925 Father, Mother and Son Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

At the Darlinghurst sessions to-day, Augustus Charles Reeves, 42, store-man, Augustus Charles Reever, 18, laborer, and Clara Reeves, 40…

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Grafton Police Cour8

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 4

There was no appearance of James Strachan, 35, at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning to answer a charge of having been found drunk in Prince street…

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Unlawful Assembly Thirty-one Men Charged. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

Thirty-one men appeared at the local court to-day charged with having knowingly continued in unlawful assembly. The charges are the sequel to the…

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Belle Murder Government Offers £250 Reward Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

Cabinet to-day decided to offer a reward of £250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of the Italian, Dominico Belle, who was…

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Inciting to Murder Charge Against Lithgow Industrialist. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

The police arrested William Orr, a well-known Lithgow industrialist, after a Communists' meeting at Cessnock last night. Orr was charged with having incited to…

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Infant's Head Buried in Backyard Police Searching for Trunk. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

Sydney police are investigating the discovery of the head of an infant unearthed yesterday in the backyard of a residence at Enfield…

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Opium Shoking Elderly Chinese Fined £20 Case at Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 4

Sammy Chong, an elderly Chinese, appeared at the Grafton Police Court, before Mr. A. F. Chapman, P.M., yesterday to answer a charge of having on February…

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Two Strangers In Trouble At Maclean Police Constable Resisted Bench Takes Lenient View

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 3

Two strangers, giving their occupations as travelling tinkers, arrived at Maclean by the morning boat on Thursday. The temperature was high and the visitors, it…

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Rothbury Riot Norman Brown's Death Accidental, Says Coroner Police Action Commended. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner, Mr. Reed, at the inquest concerning the death of Norman Brown, the victim of the…

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Afraid to Go Home Girls Concoct Assault Story. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 2

Two girl residents of Newtown, aged 17 and 16, respectively, visited the local police station early this morning, and stated that while returning to their homes…

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Malicious Charges Police Completely Exculpated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 2

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, commenting on the Coroner's verdict at the inquest concerning the death of Norman Brown, said he felt sure all law-abiding citizens…

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