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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 65

Theft From Cricketers

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 2

While the members of Kippax's team were fielding during the watch against Ipswich on Friday, some thief got into the pavilion by an opening in the roof…

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Insurance Funds Clerk Admits Stealing Charge Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

A the Quarter Sessions this morning, Archibald Gerald Guthrie, 29, clerk, pleaded guilty to stealing £1289162 from the National Roads and Motorists'…

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Wounded Four Times Foreigner Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

When Guido Caletti, 23, was charged with assaulting with intent to rob at the Quarter Sessions, to-day, it was stated that he admitted that he had four bullet wounds…

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Clash with Police Eight Egyptians Killed. Cairo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

Eluding police, the Wafdist executive officers motored to Bern Suef and entered the house of a prominent Wafdist. A crowd gathered outside and the police,…

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Revolver Duel Police and Terrorists Wanted Man Shot Dead. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

A dramatic revolver battle, between the police and Jagdish and Sukdevraj, two suspected revolutionaries, took place in the Shalimar gardens, four miles from…

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A Loan? Senator Dunn's Wife District Court Story Remarkable Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

Remarkable evidence was given to-day, in the District Court, where Mrs. Alice Dunn, wife of Senator J. P. Dunn (Labor), appeared as a witness…

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£5000 THEFT Three Men Arrested After Eighteen Months Clever Robbery Recalled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 5

After nearly 18 months' careful investigation detectives arrested three men in connection with a daring robbery cf £5000 from the Australian…

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Arbitration Bill Police Chief Carpeted Evidence Before Committee. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 5

When the Legislative Council Select Committee which is inquiring into the Arbitration Bill resumed to-day, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Childs, was…

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Law Reform Cheaper Litigation Solicitors' Insurance Fund Powers of District Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 5

A brief outline of his measure to provide for law reform, was given to the Legislative Assembly to-day by the Attorney-General, Mr…

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2000 Counter Claims to Be Lodged by Trade Union Plan to Prolong Court Hearing Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 5

A mass meeting of members of the Textile Workers' Union decided to serve 2000 counter claims on the employers in opposition to their log cf claims providing for…

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Two Years Lismore Woman Sentenced. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 4

Nurse Ruby Louisa Gaudron was found guilty, at the Lismore Quarter Sessions, to-day, of unlawfully using an instrument, and was sentenced to two years'…

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£1000 BAIL Sydney Bank Robbery Three Men Before Court Statements to Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day Joseph Wall, 58, builder, William Morse Evans, 49, chemist, and Arnold Walker, 42, salesman, were each…

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Two Years Young Man Sentenced Slashed Girl with Razor. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Thomas William Bennett, 20, was sentenced to two years imprisonment, on a charge of having slashed with a razor Patricia…

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Ulmarra Police Court a Traffic Breach

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 6

On Wednesday last, at the Court of Petty Sessions at Ulmarra, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. Cecil Gordon [?]reise pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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"Financial Murder."

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 3

Summing up the woes of small business men who have been hit by the depression in this State, one of them declares:—"This time last year I was…

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Stealing From Trucks Sentence of Six Months. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 4

At the Glebe Court to-day Leonard Flanagan, 20, ah unemployed barman, was sentenced to six months on three charges of stealing…

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"Intent to Murder" Charge Against Trapper. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 5

John Mc[?]arlane, 38, trapper, appeared before the City Court to-day, on a charge of having shot Constable Hutchison, with intent to murder him. He was…

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Police Party Ambushed in Burma. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 5

A large party of Burma rebels attacked a detachment of police near Prome last night, and it is feared that W. L. Austin, District Superintendent of Police, and…

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District Court Postponement of Actions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 4

[?] the District Court, to-day Judge White announced that in future, applications made for the postponement of actions would not be entertained by the…

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High Court Decision Picnic Not an Entertainment. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 5

The F[?]l Court of the High Court unanimously decided that a picnic was not an entertainment, within the meaning or the Federal Entertainments Tax…

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