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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 48 of 65

Not Drug Addict Evidence of Police Witness £3000 Libel Action. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 3

During the heaving of the case in which Mrs. Augusta Smith is claiming £3000 damages from Sydney "Truth," for alleged libel, Mr. Maxwell, K.C., for…

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Pathetic Story Mother Charged with Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 6

Charged with the murder of her five year-old son, Jack, Kathleen May Beeby, 30, a single woman, presented a pathetic figure as she stood in the dock at the…

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Dorrigo Police Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 2

At the Dorrigo Police Court last Friday before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., the Police proceeded against Amos Sullivan on a charge of offensive…

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Burglary at Casino

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 7

While Mr. and Mrs. Coombes were absent from their home in Walker street, Casino, on Sunday night, thieves broke in and stole jewellery to the value of £10…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing the Whiporie Cases

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 3

Further evidence was tendered at the Casino Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P. M., in the case in which George Olive was charged with…

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Phillip Street Murder Funeral of Mrs. Bryce. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 4

Police again searched the beach at Cron[?]a to-day for the body of Du[?]e Bryce, one of the principal figures in the Phillip street murder mystery, but…

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Battered to Death Shocking Triple Murder Prussian Mystery. Cologne

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 5

A mysterious, shocking triple murder was discovered in a second floor flat at Dortmund. The body of a man named Moser, 50, engineer, was discovered in the…

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Cattle Stealing Charges More Cases at Casino

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 8

In the Casino Police Court George Olive and Joseph Francis Franey were charged with stealing a heifer, the property of A. J. Dudgeon. After, hearing evidence, the…

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Victim of Assault Man Found in Gutter. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

George Carter, 41, was found lying in a pool of blood in a gutter outside his house at Rozelle last night. There was a jagged wound in the left arm and an…

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Supreme Court in Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 4

Chief Justice Harvey, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Dalzell, who will be his associate, will officiate at a sitting of the Supreme Court, Probate Jurisdiction,…

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Nude Cult Police Watching Beaches. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

Fearing that thousands of sensation seekers would rush the spot if its location was made public the secretary of the Australian Health Club declines…

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Struggle in Bank Alleged Attempt to Steal Theft Charge Against Young Man. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

A young man who, it is alleged, stole the sum of £1810 from the counter of the Union Bank at the corner of Pitt and Hunter streets this afternoon, was…

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For a Stamp? Three People Killed German Murder Mystery a Slender Clue. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

The "Daily Express" Dortmund correspondent says the police believe that the engineer, Moser, his wife and his mother-in-law, may have been,…

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Air Crash Victims 'Robbed and Burned' Charges Against Mayor and Police Chief. Bucharest

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

The Mayor of the town of Balatsiza and the Chief Inspector of Police, have been arrested on a charge of robbing and burning the bodies of the six…

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Telegrams Phillip Street Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1931 · page 5

Police to-day abandoned the search tat Cronulla for the body of Dulcie Bryce, whose mother's body was found in the water following the mysterious murder of…

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Woman Shot Point Blank Range "Last Night on Earth" Police Make Arrest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1931 · page 5

Shortly before midnight last night Miss Lindaa Lancaster, 27, housekeeper at an infants' home in Henry street, Ashfield, was seriously…

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Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 2

John Delaney, a young man, pleaded guilty at Coffs Police Court yesterday to a charge of travelling on the railway without paying his fare. He…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 4

Arising out of an alternation which occurred at the South Grafton School of Arts on Saturday, September 12, three private summons cases against Victor Irwin…

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Missing Cream Cheque Alleged Theft From Letter Box

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 3

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P. M., Charles George Cramp, 23, was charged with having at Newton Boyd between…

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Menace Alleged. Murder Charge Echo. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 5

When James Hogan, 30, and Alphons[?] Clune, 29, appeared at Redfern court today, on a charge of having, on Saturday, demanded money with menace from…

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