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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Legal Profession Its High Standards Comments in Full Court Appeal Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 4

The Full Court granted a new trial in the action of James Croll and another against Robert Duncan McRae on the ground that counsel for plaintiffs had so…

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Women in Male Attire Charged with Motor Cycle Theft. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 3

When a constable arrested three persons at 4 o'clock this morning and charged them with being in the unlawful possession of a motor cycle he found that two…

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'Falling Flat' Ghandi's Disobedience Few Volunteers Murder Conspiracy Alleged. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 3

Ghandi is finding the villagers apathetic towards his disobedience campaign, and when he and 78 volunteers started the second day's trek…

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Powcull Alleged Ring-in Police Say Powcull Is Violian. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 1

At the Canterbury court to-day, Cecil Shannon, a horse trainer, Henry Chisholm, 54, a school teacher, and Albert Redbon, horse trainer, were charged with…

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Coramba Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

A number of convictions were recorded at the local court on Monday of last week for infringements of the motor traffic regulations. The court was presided over…

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Escapee Sentenced. Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 5

John King, 45, who escaped from custody by jumping out of a train recently, was sentenced to–day to six months on a charge of stealing and nine months for…

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Boy Startled Police Thought He Had Unearthed a Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 5

A boy visited Darlinghurst police station yesterday and excitedly explained there had been a murder in his parents' backyard. He said he had been digging…

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Stealing Melons Young Men Fined £4

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

For having stolen eight melons to the Value of 8 from the property of Nicholas James Boyd, William Kearns, 19, and Frederick Charles Thornthwaite, 18, were…

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Murder Charge Knife Wound in Stomach Struggle in Residential. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court to–day William Ralph, 37, laborer, was charged with having murdered Arthur Adolph Lange, in a residential at Surry Hills,…

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On Bench Two Honorary Justices to Defeat Justice' Police Sgt.'s Allegation Prosecution Declines to Proceed. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 5

Tadeucz Wlodarczyk, a Pole, appeared at West Maitland Court to–day, on a charge of having at Rothbury on December 15, stolen a suit of clothes,…

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Idle Son Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 4

The case of an aged mother and her 32 year old son, being charged with vagrancy, came before the Rockhampton Police Court recently. The defendants…

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Fox Trial Son On Murder Charge Mother's Death Remarkable Scene in Court London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 5

One of the most remarkable scenes in the Fox murder trial was when room 65 was reconstructed in the court, on resumption of the trial of…

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'Stop This Man" Drunken Driver Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 5

At the Central Court to–day Gerald Brocklehurst, 30, manager, was sentenced to a month's hard labor for having driven a car while drunk. He was also…

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Local and General Police Changes

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 4

Acting Inspector Hamilton has been transferred from Gosford to Kempsey, to take the place of Inspector Toohill, and Sergeant Muir has been transferred from…

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Murder Charge Statement From Dock Surry Hills Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 5

The trial of William Ralph, 37, on a charge of murdering Arthur Lange, was continued at the Central Criminal Court to–day…

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Triple Murder Live Wire Across Road Sensation in Austria. Vienna

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 5

A triple murder, unprecedented in the history of crime, is being tried at Korneuburg where a young farmer, Franz Neumayer, is accused of killing his…

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Unlawful Arrest Police Sergeant to Pay £75. QUEANBEYAN

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 5

Judge Sheridan to–day awarded Victor Samuels, of Canberra, £75 damages, in his claim for £400 against Sergeant J. R. Shepherd, for unlawful arrest…

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Gun Duel Police And Suspects Constable Wounded One Man Arrested. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 4

During a fierce gun duel between suspected shopbreakers and two policemen to–night, Constable Patrick Higgins, 33, was wounded in the…

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Bullet in Side Suspect Shot by Police Sequel to Alleged Robbery. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 5

An exciting police chase terminated in Hague Avenue, near Hyde Park, late last night, when a man, who is alleged to have broken into premises in Liverpool street,…

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Police Sergeant Arrested on Charge of Murder. Budapest

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 5

The police had reached a dead–end in their investigations regarding the burgling of the Szalotna post office and the murdering of a 65–year–old postmistress…

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