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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Court-martialled Two Airmen in Trouble. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 6

Flying Officer A. G. Gerrand and Pilot Officer W. G. Rae, of the Royal Australian Air Force, were charged before court-martial at Laverton to-day with three…

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RAZORS--POISON Sensation At Corowa When Husband Met Wife Story in Coroner's Court. Corowa

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 5

A verdict of suicide was recorded by the Coroner at the conclusion of an inquest concerning the death of Frederick Warner who drank a bottle of…

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Hard to Draw Line Magistrate on Consorting Act. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 5

George Lawrence, 34, laborer, who was charged under the Act recently passed with having habitually consorted with reputed criminals, was discharged by Mr…

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Murder Trial Cingalese Prisoner's Evidence. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 5

Sensational evidence was given by a Cingalese prisoner named Deas at the resumption of the trial of William Podmore, on a charge of the murder of…

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Assault on Girl Former Canadian MP.'s Third Trial. Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 5

Louis Auger, former M.P. for Prescott, was found not guilty at Ontario Supreme Court to-day at his third trial on a charge of committing a grave offence against a…

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Three Months Gaol Stole From Poor Box First Trial in Vatican City. Vatican City

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 5

Giuseppe Paolis, who was cought extracting coins from an alms box at St. Peter's with a piece of whalebone smeared with birdlime,was the first offend[?]to…

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Baby's Body Buried In Backyard Dug Up by Police Amazing Incident at Dance. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 4

A case which the Coroner, Mr. Richardson Clark, described as "most peculiar" was heard at Parramatta to-day…

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Optional Clause Hague International Court to Be Approved by Federal Parliament. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 5

"When Parliament reassembles it will be asked to pass a resolution approving of the acceptance of the optional clause of the Statute of the Permanent Court of…

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Beeby Award Rule Nisi To Restrain Coal Owners' Application Granted by High Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 5

Before Mr. Justice Rich in the High Court Chambers, Sydney, to-day the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association applied for a prohibition…

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Police Complimented. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 February 1930 · page 5

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, said to-day he had received a letter from a Cessnock business man in which the police were praised and were commended for…

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Visit to Battlefields Prince in South Africa Little Girl Outwits Police. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 3

The Prince of Wales contracted a cold on the journey to Johannesburg. He was much better after breakfast and a rest and played a round of golf at the Country…

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Bomb Under Staircase Stranger Telephones Police Attempt to Blow Up Indian Room at Museum. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 3

Following a telephone message from a stranger, giving the name of Ali Khan, who declared he overheard Indian students plotting to blow up the Indian room at…

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Burglary at Bonville

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

While Mr. and Mrs. G. Yates were absent during the school holidays their residence at Bonville school was entered by burglars and several…

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Grafton Police Court Alleged Trespass

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Arthur Shafer was proceeded against by Percy Clarence George on a charge of…

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Coffs Police Station

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., has been informed by the Public Works Department, in reply to his personal inquiries, that…

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Coining Plant Seized by Police Young Man Arrested in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

Raiding a room in a residential in George street, near the Central Railway Station to-night, police found an elaborate coining plant. No spurious coins were…

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In Few Hours Bride To Widow Mysterious Tragedy Sydney Police Puzzled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

Peter Nudzick, 27, a Czecho-Slovakian, who was found dead in a house at Auburn, was married on Thursday afternoon last to Jean Gillespie…

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Fired at Police Accused On Trial Rozelle Armed Hold-up Fingerprint on Spectacle Lenses. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

At the Darlinghurst Sessions today, Thomas Herbert Skinner, 29, salesman, appeared on two counts, that, while armed, he assaulted and…

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Free Pits Early Opening Likely Setback for 'Reds' High Court—federal Government to Intervene. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

Within a few days it is expected that every unassociated mine in the South Maitland field will be working. The decision to work Millfield-Greta…

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Messiter Murder Podmore Committed for Trial. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 5

William Podmore was committed for trial for the murder of Vivian Messiter, manager of an American Oil Company. There was an extraordinary scene in[?]…

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