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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

1,628 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 57 of 82

Money From Home Two Men Charged with False Pretences. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day, Christopher Harrington (18), waiter, and George Alexander (29), blacksmith, were charged with false pretences. It was alleged that the…

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Pistols, Masks Detonators Police Raid Seizures. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 7

Detectives raided a house yesterday morning and arrested three men in connection with several recent robberies. Eight loaded automatic pistols, gelignite…

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Loss of Tahiti Marine Court Inquiry Engineers Give Evidence Flaw in Shaft Suggested. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 7

The Marine Court of Inquiry into the sinking of the liner Tahiti was resumed to-day. Second Engineer Thomson said the door…

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Murwillumbah Assault Colored People Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 4

At midnight on Thursday night, Mrs. Eva Ivey and Joe Lomba, aboriginals, and Samuel William John Wilson, a native of Papua, visited Frederick Payne's…

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Brutal Assault Woman Battered with Iron Bar Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 5

Mrs. Florence Hardwick was brutally battered with an iron bar by two masked men who forced their way into her home at Annandale last night. She is now in…

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Fire in Garage Police Arrest Proprietor

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 4

A suspicious outbreak of fire was discovered at the Reliance Motor Garage, 153 Prince street, Grafton, on Saturday night…

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Footballers Fight Police Stop Match. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 3

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Court Case Sequel to Election Incident. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 5

A woman's accusation, to the effect that Mr. Redwood, who is a Queenslander, and the United party candidate for Bromley by election, was a Jesuit, and a traitor,…

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Injunction Sought Performing Church Rites Unusual Case in Equity Court, Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 4

An unusual case came before the Equity Court yesterday, when an injunction was asked for, restraining the Rev. Dixon Hudson, minister of the Church of…

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Loss of Tahiti 'Due To Peril Of Sea' Court's Finding Tributes to Master and Crew. Wellington (N.z)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 5

The Marine Court to-day found the loss of the liner Tahiti, was due "to the peril of the sea, which no reasonable human care or foresight could…

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Wife's Death Husband Charged with Murder Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 4

The police arrested a man, following on the discovery of the body of Alice Townsend. 43, in a house at Fitzroy, with her throat cut…

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Bondi Gang Police Arrest Suspect. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 1

By the arrest of a man in the city this afternoon the police hope to break up a gang which is alleged to have been terrorising the Bondi district for some…

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Wine Shop Tragedy a Hoax for the Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 5

The police received a report this morning that Ernest Good, proprietor of the wine saloon where Lancelot Saidler was shot on Saturday, had himself been shot…

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Police Defied Fatalities in Village Riot' Bombs in Calcutta Indian Quarter. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 5

A police officer and three villagers were killed and a number of police and villagers seriously injured in a riot at the village of Bulandshahi, in the United Provinces…

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Glaring Travesty French Methods Of Justice Wilson Murder 'Reconstructed' Youthful Prisoner's Ordeal Enormous Crowd--movie Pictures Taken. Paris

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 5

French methods of justice were never more glaringly travestied than the elaborate reconstruction at Le Touquet to-day, of the murder of Mrs…

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Oath in Court Blasphemous Informality Mr. McMAHON, S.M., on Untruthful Witnesses. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 5

Mr, McMahon, S.M., declared, at the. Redfern Court, that 95 per cent. of witnesses, who go into the witness box are untruthful…

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Local and General Mean Theft

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 4

A particularly mean instance of sneak thieving occurred on Saturday night, when someone took the Wagga District Ambulance bicycle from where it was…

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Money Demanded Man Charged with Menacing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 5

Leslie Joseph Grono, 23 groom was remanded at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having demanded money by menaces from Barney Goldstein financier…

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Nuptials in Gaol Young Girl Marries Habitual Criminal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 5

A marriage was celebrated in the chapel at Long Bay gaol yesterday, between a young girl and a man, 35, who is serving an indeterminate sentence as an habitual…

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"Mickey Mouse" in Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 2

In the Chancery Division, London, Mr. Justice Luxmoore concluded the hearing of the action in which Dean's Rag Book Company, Limited, manufacturers of rag…

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