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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Another Fight Wrestlers at Newcastle Police Stop Contest. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 1

The police were compelled to intervene in a wrestling match between Billy Edwards (13.6), and George McLeod (15st.), at the Newcastle Stadium last night…

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Recent Crimes Influence of Moving Pictures Police Chief's View. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Childs, expressed the opinion to-day that economic depression could not be blamed for turning honest men into criminals…

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Ready to 'Fire' Petrol Soaked Premises Timely Discovery Police and Firemen Guard Building. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 2

Police and firemen guarded a building in Bathurst street throughout, last night, after making the sensational discovery that one of the floors on the…

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Serious Assault Case Three Men Charged. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 5

The trial commenced to-day, of John Ryan, 25, laborer, William Pemberton, 22, boxer, and Walter Stevenson, 23, French polisher, on a charge of having committed…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 4

Yesterday, at the Grafton Court of Petty, Sessions before Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, P.M., Charles G. Stuart was convicted on a charge of having failed to…

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State Award Federal Court's Jurisdiction Full Court to Hear Application Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 5

When the Iron Trades Unions applied to Judge Beeby in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day for a ruling that the metal trade employees in the State…

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'Dummy Package' Lismore Notes Case £500 Missing Bank Official Charged. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 5

Thomas Jackson, 33, accountant, on remand, appeared at Lismore Court this morning charged with stealing £500, the property of the Lismore…

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Police Smoke Social Visit of Chief Secretary

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 4

The committee of the Grafton branch of the Police Association of New South Wales has everything in hand for its fourth annual smoke social, which is to…

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Bombs Thrown at Chief of Police Sensation in Calcutta. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 5

Two bombs were flung at a car containing Sir Charles Tegart, Police Commissioner, as he was driving through Dalhousie Square, in the centre of the…

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Bandit on Train Customs Officers Shot Dead Canadian Sensation Robber Shot Down by Police. Winnipeg

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 5

Two United States immigration officers, Inspector Dalton, of Rainier (Minnesota), and Inspector Jones, of Warrorad (Minnesota), were shot dead…

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Car Stealing

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 4

A request has been forwarded by the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland to the Home Secretary's Department, (Q.) to have included in the Police Offences…

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Cowardly Assault 200 Men Attack Five Waterside Riots at Adelaide. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 4

Five volunteer wharf laborers were stoned by a crowd of 200 as they were walking to work near the wharves at Port Adelaide this morning…

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Victorian Police Chief Reappointed at Reduced Salary Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 5

The State Ministry has reappointed Brigadier-General Blarney to the position of Chief Commissioner of Police at the reduced salary of £1250 a year,…

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Pictures and Crime Views of Victorian Police Chief. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 5

The Chief Commissioner of Police, General Blarney, agrees with the N.S.W. Commissioner that films which glorify criminals have an undesirable effect on…

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W.A. Murder Accused's Alleged Statement "Had to Do Something or Bust." Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 2

At the inquiry concerning the death of Charles David Patterson, 27, a taxi driver, who was found dead at the wheel of his car at Wattlegrove, the Coroner…

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Daughter's Death Father Worried-suicide Message Sent to the Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 4

A verdict of suicide was returned by the Coroner at the inquest concerning the death of James Betts, 52. at Camden. Evidence was given that the death of…

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'Wicked Liar' Telephone Receptacle. Stolen Two Youth Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 5

When Max Henry Duncan Gardener, 19, and Herbert Baker, 19, laborers, were charged at Kogarah to-day with having stolen a telephone receptacle Gardened…

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Police Coup

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 6

There was something of a Gilbertian touch about a police raid at Brisbane early on Sunday morning, when a plain-clothes constable assisted in the arrest…

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Dispersed by Police Watersiders at Adelaide. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 1

Five hundred Waterside workers who were marching on the volunteer labor bureau were dispersed by police to-day. Batons Were drawn, and the police…

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Bomb Thrown at Calcutta Police Station Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 5

Following the attempt to assassinate Sir Charles Tegart, Police Commissioner, another outrage occurred in Calcutta last night, when a bomb was thrown at the…

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