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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

1,628 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 39 of 82

Chicago Indignant Resignation of Police Chief. Chicago

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 5

Police Commissioner Russell and Chief of Detectives Stege resigned to-day after public indignation, had been aroused by the murder of the reporter…

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Woman and Daughter Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1930 · page 4

Vera Hamilton, 33 years, widow, and her daughter. Jean Hamilton, 17 years, both of Camden street, Oakleigh (Vic.), had recently to answer five charges of…

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Talkies. "The Greene Murder Case."

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1930 · page 3

Willam Powell, who plays the role of Philo Vance, in Paramount's picturisation of the gripping mystery story by S. S. Van Dine, "The Greene Murder Case."…

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Alleged Assault Story by Barnardo Girl. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1930 · page 5

A fifteen years old girl, who arrived in Australia recently under the Barnardo scheme, informed the police that she was assaulted yesterday afternoon in a house…

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Emu Plains Suggested Two Young Men Sentenced Kyogle Breaking and Entering Case

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1930 · page 3

Sentence was passed yesterday morning, by his Honor Judge Mocatta, in the Grafton Quarter Sessions, upon the two young men, who, on the previous day, had…

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Charles Murder Mattock As Exhibit Medical Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1930 · page 5

The trial of Cecil Farnsworth Charles, 52, on a charge of murdering his father, John Edward Charles, 79, at Glossodia, East Kurrajong, was…

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Strike Pickets Dispersed by Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1930 · page 5

The police to-day dispersed pickets outside Hardin's rubber works, at Rushcutters Bay, where a strike is in progress…

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Talkies ''The Greene Murder Case."

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 3

Public taste for thrilling mystery melodrama in moving pictures, evidenced by the overwhelming success of "The Canary Murder Case," the S. S. Van Dine story,…

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Appeal Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 4

Twenty-nine cases were listed for hearing, but all, with the exception of one, were adjusted out of Court, Elizabeth Poole, owner of lot 13,…

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Dorrigo Police Court FRIDAY, 13th JUNE (Before Mr. Carr-Boyd P.m.) Unstamped Weights

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 4

Sergt Johnstone, Inspector of Weights and Measures, Bellingen, proceeded against William Nighjoy, storekeeper, Dorrigo, on a charge of…

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Girl Strikers Police Prevent Picketing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 5

Police prevented the picketing of Hardie's rubber works to-day and the girl slid tiers made be attempt defy them…

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Charles Murder Son on Trial Statement From Dock. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 4

When the trial of Cecil Farnsworth Charles, charged with the murder of his father, was resumed at the Central Criminal Court to-day, James Davis said he…

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Maclean Licensing Court Renewals of Licenses

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 3

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at Maclean, the following renewals of publication licenses were granted, in the Maclean licensing district:--Charles Joseph…

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Cripple Robbed Four Men Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day John Vaughan 66 blacksmith, Thomas Townsend, 21, laborer, Albert Kenny, 21, laborer, and Harold Oram, 39, laborer…

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Bad Memory Sydney's Missing Journalist What Police Say. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 4

Murray Hulett, a member of the staff of "Truth" newspaper, who was reported missing yesterday morning, and who, it was believed, had been kidnapped, or…

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Flood Waters Receding in Manning Two Men Rescued by Police Boat. Taree

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 5

The Manning River early this morning reached its maximum height, only 29 inches below the great flood of February of last year, and is now…

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HASTINGS River Now Falling Police Boats at Work Sixteen Inches at Wauchope, Wauchope

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 5

After rising almost to the level of the big flood last year, the Hastings River, at Wanchope, is now falling slowly and the weather is clear…

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Sold Boomerangs to Attend Coroner's Court King of Aboriginal Tribe. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 7

The chief witness at the Parramatta Coroner's inquiry into the death of an aboriginal, Geo. Anderson, was "King" Walter, chief of the Murrumbidgee…

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Car Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1930 · page 4

At Casino Police Court on Wednesday. Edward John Gibson (21), a tractor driver, David Corbin (23), a laborer, Bernard Gorman (18), a moulder, and…

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Blew Safe Next to Police Station. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1930 · page 7

Burglars blew a sale at the Dundas Council Clambers, next door to the police station, and a constable, hearing the explosion, ran out just in time to see the…

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