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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

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Police Activities Labor Party Criticism. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 5

The activities of the police were criticised at to-day's meeting of the State Parliamentary Labor, party, and it was decided to appoint a committee to make…

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FINED £50 Randwick Alderman Charged 'Pecuniary Interest' Helping Men on Relief Work. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 5

Richard Ernest Wilson, an alderman of the Randwick Municipal Council, was to-day fined £50 and was disqualified from holding civic…

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Federal Arbitration Court Race Club Employees' Wages. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 5

An application by the New South Wales Racing Clubs, for a 10 per cent. reduction in employees' wages, was heard by the Federal Arbitration Court to-day…

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Vic. Murders Police Procedure Questioned Ministerial Concern Three Serious Crimes Unsolved. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 5

The Chief secretary of victoria, Mr. Tunnecliffe, said to-day that he was seriously disturbed at the lack of success of the police in unravelling…

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Prison Horrors Conditions In Russia Brutal Secret Police Escaped Prisoner's Story. Helsingfors

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 5

A startling personal narrative of the O.G.P.U. (secret police) prisons was given by an escaped Ingrian peasant, Juyo Markoff, who was…

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Cattle Stealing Charges at Woodburn Farmer Fined £30. CORAKT

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 5

Considerable interest was taken in the hearing of several charges of alleged cattle duffing at the South Woodburn Court. The court was crowded, and many…

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Rouse Murder Reprieve Request Refused. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 5

The Home Secretary has refused to reprieve Rouse who was sentenced to death for the murder of an unknown man who was found burned to death in Rouse's…

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Shot by Police Man Who Ran Away Property Worth £300 Recovered Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 5

When a man failed to stop after being challenged by police in Sydney road, Granville, last night, Constable Gregory fired three shots and one struck him in…

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Riots at Perth Unemployed Fight Police Pickets and Stones Violent Street Fighting. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 5

Several arrests were made and eight persons were treated at Perth Hospital as a result of a violent clash between unemployed and police outside the…

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Wanted to Go to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 4

It is not often that a man wants to go to gaol but during last week two men in Casino requested that they be "put in." The first ease occurred on…

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Rouse Murder Confession Story Denied. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 5

Mrs. Rouse is a daily visitor to the gaol where her husband, who is condemned to death, is imprisoned. She denies that Rouse confessed his guilt and states,…

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Car Driver Charged Watson's Bay Accident Alleged Wanton Driving. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Richard Jack Johnson, 23, traveller, was charged with having feloniously slain David…

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Murder Charge Quarrel on Steamer Engineer on £500 Bail. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 5

Ernest Sinclair Oldfield, 24, assistant engineer, was charged at the Central Court to-day, with having murdered Richard Malone…

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N. York Murder Madman at Hotel Dead Woman's Brother. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 5

The murder of Mrs. Gordon continues to increase interest, due to the expanding series of sensational developments connected therewith…

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Doubling on the Dole . Two Men Sentenced. Coramba

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 5

Before Messrs R. E. Webb, and T. T. Macaulay, Js.P., on Friday last, Peter James Marsh and Ronald James were charged by Constable Freebody, of…

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Police Inquiry Charges Against Constables. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 5

A departmental inquiry was opened today when Constable John Wright and Constable Henry Coxhead were called upon to answer charges in connection…

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Man's Death Tragedy At Hotel Story in Court Allegations Against Woman. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 5

An inquest concerning the death on Samuel Newlands, at Parramatta, was resumed to-day. Dr. Alexander stated that a glass found…

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Sydney Fires Shop Occupier Charged Police Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 5

At the conclusion of an inquiry into fires which occurred in a shop at Darling hurst on February 21, the Corner committed Daniel Korol, occupier of the…

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Five Years Former Policeman Sentenced Sequel to Attack on Bank. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 5

At the Sydney Sessions to-day Joseph Patrick Kalinowski, 33, an ex-policeman, was sentenced to five years impprisonment for having shot at a constable with…

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Willie Young Appeal an Immigration Mater Full Court's Decision

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 1

In the Full Court, before the Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street, Mr. Justice Ferguson and Mr. Justice James, on Monday, the immigration, matter, Maher y. Young…

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