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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

1,628 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 59 of 82

On Friend's Grave Woman Detained by Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 September 1930 · page 3

Sutherland police last night detained a woman, whom they found weeping across the grave of a friend who was buried yesterday. In the woman's possession…

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Police Magistrate's Comment on Garage Charges

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 4

"In these collision cases the charges made by some garage owners for repairs are most excessive, and it is about time they were told to reduce them. If I…

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Charge of Theft

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 4

Before Messrs. E. R. F. Haydock and I. R. W. Huthnance, Js.P., in the Glen Lines Police Court on Tuesday, Joseph Alfred Simpson was charged with that…

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Jealousy Murder and Suicide the Parkes Tragedy. Parkes

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 1

A verdict of murder and suicide was returned by the Coroner to-day, after inquiry into the death of Jack Aubrey, 20, Who shot his wife, Jean Aubrey, 17…

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Bank Hold-up Police Make Arrest. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 1

Detectives arrested a man in a city street to-day, on a charge of robbery under arms, in connection with a hold-up at the Brunswick bank last week…

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Shot Himself Dead While Under Police Escort. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 5

Suddenly drawing a revolver from his pocket, William Alt, 45, who was accompanied by Detective Sergeant Morgan, shot himself dead outside the detective…

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Murder Verdict Redhead Skeleton Case Girl From Taree Father Cannot Be Pound. Taree

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 5

The inquest concerning the death of the 15 years old girl, May Doris Schubert, whose skeleton was found at Redhead, near Newcastle, and…

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Serious Clash Wharf Laborers at Newcastle Police Quell Disturbance. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 1

Further serious trouble, threatened among wharf laborers, near the North Coast wharf this morning. Unionists and volunteers clashed and although stones…

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Illegal Impounding. Case at Kempsey Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 2

At Kempsey Police Court this week Henry Gardem proceeded, against Joseph Murphy on a charge of having illegally impounded a bull from…

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Won't Tell Police Injured Motor Engineer. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 4

Edward John Fegan, 30, motor engineer, who recently arrived in Sydney from Brisbane, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital early this morning, bleeding…

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Stolen Motor Cycles £600 Worth of Parts in Shed Four Men Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 5

At Redfern court to-day, four men, Norman Gilroy Smith, 25, laborer, Albert Groth, 19, painter, Carl Augustus Timmins, 21, laborer, and Kenneth Charles…

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Unlawful Assault

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 4

Leaving a dance being held at a Broughton road. Kedron, residence about 10 o'clock on the night of September 12. Henry Geiger and Herbert William…

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Guyra Sheep Stealing Case

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 5

Addressing a meeting at Guyra, Mr. Lang said if the Labor party was returned, he would hold an inquiry into the Guyra sheep stealing case. He alleged that…

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Theft During Card Game

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 4

In the Gordonvale Police Court (Q.). Frederick Alfred Smith was charged with having stolen £1410, the property of John Samuel Clarke,. Acting Sergeant…

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Cattle Stealing at Bathurst. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 7

Reginald Leslie Beecroft, alais Bidding, 45, was sentenced to nine months' hard labor for having stolen four head of cattle at Brewongle…

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Talkies "The Bishop Murder Case."

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 3

The plot of S. S. Van Dine's dramatic novel. "The Bishop Murder Case," which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have made into an all talking picture, and which will be…

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Fines Instead of Gaol Sentence West Maitland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 8

Judge Sheridan to-day reduced many fines imposed on men convicted after the Ashtonfields disturbance in January last, and removed the gaol sentences imposed…

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"Police Spies" Garden and Communist Executive. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 4

At a recent meeting or the Labor Council, Mr. Garden declared that there were two police spies on the executive of the Communist party, one of them being a…

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Young Italian on Trial Attack on Prince Umberto Remarkable Address to Court. Brussels

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 5

The trial has begun of the 22 years old Italian Fernando Derosa, for attempting to kill Prince Umberto, their to the Italian throne…

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Talkies "The Bishop Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 September 1930 · page 2

That S. S. Van Dine's best seller, "The Bishop Murder Case," is fully as exciting on the screen as it is in book form, was indicated at the Garden Theatre, when…

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