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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 65

Mena Griffiths Murder McMAHON Taken to Leeton Evidence in Support of Alibi. Leeton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 5

Robert James McMahon, 35, who has been charged with the murder of Mena Griffiths, was taken to Leeton to-day, where 13 men identified him as the…

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Audacious Theft Brisbane Shop Window Cleared Public and Police Look On. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

In Brisbane last right in the sight of hundreds of passers-by, a men removed 200 watches form the lighted windows of Wallace Bishop and Son's shop, in…

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Mena Griffiths Murder McMAHON Still Held by Police Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

The view was expressed to-day by the Chief Secretary and the Crown Law Department, that, notwithstanding the alibi set up by Robert James McMahon,…

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Aborigines' Court Tribunals to Be Set Up

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

So that aborigines guilty of tribal offences may receive "just and sympathetic treatment," the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Blakeley, has decided to…

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S.P. LICENSES Alleged Conspiracy Three Men Charged at Manly Ministers' Names Mentioned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

Conspiracy in connection with the issue of starting price licenses was alleged at the Manly Court to-day, when Edwin Roes, 50, and William Ardill, 50, brokers…

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Police and Unemployed Another Clash in Adelaide. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

About 300 unemployed [?]shed with the police at South Park to-day, and were dispersed by a baton charge. The unemployed were attempting to intimidate…

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Ten Per Cent. Cut Applications to the Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

The Industrial Registrar, Mr. Murray Stewart, stated to-day that applications had been made to apply the ten per cent, wage cut to all except five of the…

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Severe Collision Police Car Struck and Overturned Seven Persons Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

Five policemen and two civilians were injured, two seriously, when a police wireless patrol car collided with a sedan motor car at the corner of Bay and New…

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Witnesses Wanted. Must Attend Next Court. Who Owned the Wine and Beer?

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 1

Adjourning a case at Coffs Harbour police court on Wednesday. Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., stated that if Tom Roberts and Jack Reedy are not at…

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Impudent Theft

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 4

An impudent theft occurred at Forbes a few days ago when a lawbreaker unharnessed a horse standing in a lane at the rear of a garage and made off with…

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Grafton Police Court Riotous Behaviour and Language

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 3

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. J. Dolighan, J.P., Francis McCarthy, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of having behaved in a riotous…

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£250 Fine Drug Trafficker Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 5

For having attempted to obtain cocaine from Clement Gray, chemist, of Northbridge, by false pretences Frederick Dangar, 38, was fined £250, in default [?]…

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REVOLVER Pointed Through Window Italian Shot Dead Countryman on Murder Charge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 6

The inquest, into the death of Giuseppe La Spina, 38, Italian fruiterer, who was shot in his shop at Newtown on January 22, was…

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Surprise Raids German Nazis Party Police Arrest Leaders. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 5

Police, in a surprise raid on the headquarters of the Nazis party, placed, the sentries under provisional arrest, set guards lit all the telephones, ransacked…

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Wife's Coffin Queer Court Story Husband Charged Alleged Attempted Murder. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 3

The case in which the mother of nine children accused her husband of attempting to poison her with sulphuric acid from a wireless set…

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Fierce Rioting Follows Murder of Merchant Gandhi May Meet Viceroy. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 3

The Hindu-Moslem riots it Benares, which followed the murder of a Moslem merchant, had the effect of inducing Gandhi to agree to a meeting with the…

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Theft or £200 Brisbane Solicitor Sentenced. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 5

James Hayes, solicitor, was to-day sentenced to two years and a half gaol, with bard labor, for the theft of £200, the property of William Grams…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Ernest James Zietsch, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found drunk in…

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Police Hold McMAHON Mena Griffiths' Murder. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 6

Robert McMahon, charged with the murder of Mena Griffiths, is still ill custody and rib have was made to-day in the direction of his release. It is apparent…

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Stolen Bicycle a Last Year's Theft Young Man Fined and Bound Over

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 7

On remand Eric Saunders, 20, appeared at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., to answer a charge of having on…

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