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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

1,628 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 51 of 82

Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 4

At the Small Debts Court yesterday, Frederick Russell Blood sued Mona Brandy for the recovery of a sum of £2163, representing goods sold and…

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Apprentice's Claim Employer Unable To Pay Three Months in Gaol Remarkable Claim. Sydney, Monday

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 5

Great interest has been -created in the case of George Hughes, who has served three months in Maitland gaol, after an application for wages was…

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Insurance Office Police Raid--official Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 6

A sensation was caused in Martin Place to-day, when detectives visited the Southern Hemisphere Assurance Association, Ltd., in Kinooppal Chambers, and…

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Unemployment Tax Test Case in High Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 6

Miss C. Jollie Smith, solicitor, to-day issued a writ tor an injunction to restrain the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales from deducting the unemployment…

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STOLE £665 Bank Clerk Sentenced. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 5

Ernest Smith 32. a bank clerk, of Surrey Hills, Melbourne. who had been convicted of stealing £605 while a servant of the E.S. and A. Bank, was…

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Counterfeit Coins Man Sent to Gaol for Three Years. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 4

Henry Meadows, 23, laborer, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment to-day on a charge of having made counterfeit coins and having had possession of…

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Six Months' Gaol Man on 27 Charges of Stealing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day no less than 43 charges of stealing were preferred against Percy Berckelman, 25, but the police withdrew sixteen…

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Police Transfers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 4

The following transfers were reported at the office of the District. Superintendent of Police-yesterday:--Sergeant, (third-class) N. G. Ormsby, from Bangalow to…

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Grazier Arrested Charge of Sheep Stealing. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 4

Detectives to-day arrested Samuel Carrick, 46, grazier, of Tarwinyale. South Gippsland, and charged him with sheep stealing…

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Three Men Charged Alleged Breaking and Entering. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day, Walter Naughton, 35, laborer, Victor Johnson, 29, agent, and John Gillan, 29, laborer, wine charged with having broken into and…

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Police Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 2

At the Dorrigo Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. Carr Boyd, P.M., W. Richards, Megan, proceeded against a man named Morcomb, also of…

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Three Years' Gaol Fire in Newspaper Office, Young Man Sentenced. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

Found guilty of maliciously setting tire to the "Tweed Daily" office at Murwillumbah with intent to injure, Walter Aubrey Kelly, linotype operator, was…

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Assault After Football Match

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court on Monday, before Mr. R.C. Atkinson, P.M., William Browne Lisle Butt proceeded against Edward Jeffreys for unlawful…

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Maclean Police Court Trouble After Football 14 Match

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 3

Before Mr. C.G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Maclean Police Court yesterday morning the following eases were dead with:--…

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Police and Their Work

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

Systems of identifying criminals, particularly by the use of finger prints, were described by Detective-Inspector F. J. Pigott in a talk in Melbourne at…

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Burglars Sentenced Two Years and a Half Imprisonment. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

David Corbin, 23, who pleaded guilty to receiving a quantity of men's wear knowing it. had been stolen, and Edward Bartlett, charged with breaking…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 4

Patrick Darcy was charged, at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, with drunkenness, and was fined 5, in default detention until the rising of the court…

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Attack on Police Constable Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 6

In the Criminal Court, Jack Spencer, laborer, was, found guilty of wounding Constable Higgins, with intent to do grievous bodily harm and with intent to…

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Missing Island Planter Case in Probate Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 4

Justice Davidson, in the Probate Court to-day, made an order giving the Public Trustee leave to swear to the death of Harry Jacobsen, a retired island planter,…

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Assault Case Motor Car Stealing Charge. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 3

The police arrested two men on a charge of assaulting Stanley Lyne and occasioning actual bodily harm. Lyne was escorting two girls to their…

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