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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

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Swift Punishment Sheep Stealers Tracked Special Court at Right. Goondiwindi

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 April 1931 · page 5

Two sheep stealers and a receiver received swift punishment when they were apprehended yesterday. Early in the morning John Mc'Casker…

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Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 3

Before Mr. C. G Carr-Boyd P.M., at the Ulmarra Police Court on Wednesday last, Charles Goggin, an invalid pensioner, pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in…

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Supreme Court Sittings

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 4

When the April sitting of the Supreme Court at Grafton opened yesterday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Davidson, there was a large crowd of jurymen and the…

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Triple Murder Seven Jews Ambushed. Jerusalem

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

Seven, Jews were ambushed near Haifa on Easter Sunday and three including a woman, were murdered. Four were injured…

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Charge of Assault Ex-prisoner and Prisoner's Wife. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

At Redfern Court to-day, Samuel Smith, 35, was charged with having assaulted Mrs. Wilhelmina Coffey, with intent to commit a capital offence…

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Murder Alleged Tragedy in New Zealand. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

Following the death of Robert Calvin Nisbet. 26, in Timaru Hospital, as a result of alleged assault and robbery in a motor car John Henry Fitzgera'd and…

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Brutal Assault Beaten Into Insensibility Man Robbed of £45. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 1

Roy Mclvor, 133, was viciously assaulted by several men at Camper down. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and admitted to the Royal Prince Alfred…

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Murder Suspected Man Found Dying in Street. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

Matthias Handley, 50, was picked up unconscious on a footway at Carlton last night and died on the way to hospital. The doctors said the man had been…

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Supreme Court Grafton April Sitting Charge of Rape

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 3

The April sitting of file Supreme Court at Grafton commenced at the Courthouse yesterday morning, Mr. Justice C. G. Davidson presiding…

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Bankruptcy Court Petition Against M.L.A. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 1

Before Judge Lukin, in the Federal Bankruptcy Court to-day, the hearing was commenced of a petition brought by Clement Vereo for sequestration of the…

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Alleged Soviet Spies Sixty-five Court-martialled. Bucharest

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

A court martial opened to-day of 65 alleged Soviet spies, the largest round up since the war. The court dealt, with a report of 224 pages regarding the activities…

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Maclean Police Court an Unlicensed Pistol

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 3

William Want was charged with being found drunk in River street Maclean, on the 4th inst., and further with riotous behaviour. Another charge preferred…

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Indian Magistrate Shot. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 5

Magistrate Peddle, who yesterday was shot, five times with a revolver, died this afternoon. A number of arrest have been made…

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Two Years Grant Hervey Sentenced "Vile Criminal.'' Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 4

In sentencing Grant Madison Hervey to two years' imprisonment on in a charge of having attempted to obtain £20 by fraud, by means of a forged…

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Appeal Court Maclean Sitting

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 3

Before the Police Magistrate on Thursday, at Maclean, the appeals by the Maclean Literary institute, Ada Gibson, William Gibson and Alice Connolley, Lower…

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A Police College. Training for Higher Ranks Sir Leonard Dunning's Advocacy

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 6

A White Paper, published recently in London contains reports by H.M. Inspector of Constabulary for the year September 29, 1930. It includes the…

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Supreme Court the Tucki Case Jury Locked to Until This Morning

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 6

The sitting of the Supreme Court was continued at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, before his Honor Mr. Justice C. G. Davidson, when the hearing was…

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Young Girl' S Story Assault in Fitzroy Gardens. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 5

Following a story told the police by a 16-year-old girl that she had been criminally assaulted while waiting for a tram in the city last night, two young…

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Report From Canberra Police Search on Mountain Side. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 5

Having been informed that portions of a plane had been seen on the mountain side, 25 miles west of Canberra, across the Murrumbidgee River, the…

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Police Methods Questioned Man Who Could Not Get Bail. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 5

Robert James McMahon, 36, laborer, was remanded at the Newtown Court today until Monday on a charge of having been found in a dwelling at St. Peters…

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