Coffs Court. Evictment Order
Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., on Wednesday, C. A. Gilles sued Matthew Thompson for having failed to quit a residence owned by the…
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Courts & crime, 1931
1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 37 of 65
Charge of Murder Body Under Tons of Earth. Wellington (N.z.)
George Errol Coats, 29, a laborer, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with having murdered Phyllis Symons, whose body was found buried under tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sale of Hernani Business Cases Before District Court
At the Bellingen District Court last week there were two cases in connection with the sale of a business at Hernani, one being J. C. McDougall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Church Dispute Enoggera Impasse Archbishop Duhig Heckled Police Called to Quell Disturbance. Brisbane
Remarkable scenes were witnessed last night at a meeting at Enoggera to consider ways and means of repairing the local Convent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Sentences for Brutal Assault. Sydney
Heavy sentences were passed on two men, at the Quarter Sessions to-day, on a charge of maliciously assaulting a constable. It was alleged that Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Case Dropped on Constable's Evidence. Sydney
An unusual procedure was adopted at the Quarter Sessions to-day when Alexander Windibank, 29, laborer, was charged with robbery at the jewellery shop of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Street Dancing Stunt Police Take Action. Sydney
An attempt at organised dancing in the streets of Sydney yesterday was not successful. A George street picture theatre offered prizes to couples who danced from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interest in Mungana Case Court Accommodation Taxed. Brisbane
The number of newspaper representatives likely to be on duty at the Brisbane Supreme Court during the hearing of the Mungana case is expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Busy Day for Police Flying Squad Makes 50 Arrests. Sydney
The police flying squad in charge of Inspector Russell, arrested 50 persons yesterday on charges of starting price betting and drinking in unlicensed premises…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Shortage Sydney's Grave Plight No Recruits for Six Months. Sydney
Not since its foundation has the city police force been so gravely undermanned, the secretary of the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank Manager Sentenced Alleged Defalcations £8000. SYDNEY
At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Norman Edward Croft, 37, a former bank manager employed by the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., was sentenced to two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Protection No Cause for Alarm. Sidney
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Childs, stated, last night that, although the strength of the police force is lower than would have been the case in normal times,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Native Trouble Spearing and Stealing Camels. Perth
A report has been received from [?]40 Well, 400 miles north of Wi[?]una, that the natives have been causing "trouble." The report said they were very hostile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Legal Error Man Sent to Gaol. Melbourne
A remarkable story of a legal error was told at Geelong sessions to-day when Carl Otto Bushman, 31, was charged with having stolen horse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →P.m. on Police Duties
When a person arrested on a charge of being under the influence of intoxicating liquor while driving a motor car makes a request to be examined by a doctor the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World Court Austro-german Customs Case. the Hague
Fifteen black-robed Judges filed austerely into the Audience Hall at the Palace of Justice and began, before a distinguished audience, the hearing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canberra Mail Robbery Ryan Still Missing Police Making Careful Search. Sydney
When the case in which Joseph Ryan and Lancelot Verne Lynch, charged in connection with the Canberra £10,000 robbery, came before the Quarter Sessions this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Money by Menace Allegations by Ex-police Inspector Pending Divorce Proceedings. Melbourne
William Thompson, accountant, of Albury, was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with having attempted to obtain money by menaces from Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kylsant Case Hearing At Old Bailey Fashionable Women Crowd Court "Company Living on Its Own Fat." London
Fashionably dressed women crowded into the Old Bailey for the opening of the Kylsant case. Mr. Justice Wright presided, and the jury included two women…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surry Hills Murder Arrest at Townsville. Sydney
Detective headquarters in Sydney tonight received a message from Townsville (Q.), to the effect that two Sydney detectives arrested a man at Townsville,…
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