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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 53 of 65

Food Relief Alleged Intent to Defraud Offender Before the Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 1

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M, John Patrick McLaughlin, 38, was charged with having at Grafton on September 17 falsely…

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Wife in Tears Field Divorce Actions Crowded Court Case May Cost £30,000 Home Expenses Over £2600 a Year. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 5

When the hearing of the Field divorce cross-suits commenced, before Mr. Justice Owen, in the Divorce Court to-day, the court was crowded…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 4

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning August Hatten, 38, who Sergeant McAlpin said was on food relief, was…

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Murder Charge Govt. Official Acquitted. Los Angeles

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 5

David Clark, former Deputy-District Attorney, to-day was acquitted on a charge of murdering Charles Crawford and Herbert Spencer…

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Gas Victims Verdict of Murder and Suicide. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 5

At the inquiry into the death of the bookmaker Levin and his wife and little daughter, who were found yesterday in a gas-filled room, the jury at the Coroner's…

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Basement Murder Body of Dulcie Bryce Identified. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 October 1931 · page 4

The body of the young woman fou[?] on the rocks at Boat Harbor, near C[?] nulla, yesterday, has been definite identified as that of Dulcie Bryce…

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Guyra Fire Two Accused Sentenced. Armidale

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 5

At the Armidale Quarter Sessions William See Lun and Thomas Michael Welsh were found guilty of having maliciously, set fire to a store at Guyra…

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Fatal Fight Quarrel in Backyard Boarder Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 3

"Lie there you --, and may you die there." This statement is a[?]ged to have been made by James O'Brien to Richard John Carr, as the latter was lying…

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W.A. Shooting Police Arrest Suspect. Berth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 5

Following the shooting of Robert Graham, at Liveringa. Dick Fallon, an old stockman, was arrested. It is believed he was looking for…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., August Hatimen (38) was again presented on a charge of having been found…

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Valueless Cheques. Bring Eight Months' Gaol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 5

Frank O'Grady, who is well-known along the coast, appeared at Grafton police Court on Monday on several charges of having cashed valueless…

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Nine Months Old Printer Sentenced Attempt to Stir Up Mutiny. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 5

Thomas Wilkinson, 68, printer, was convicted of endeavoring to stir up mutiny by the publication of an article in the "Daily Worker," a Communist paper, in…

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Honest Swagman Finds £315 in Notes Returns Money to Police. Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 4

A swagman entered the post office at Milling, about 3.50 miles north of Perth, and handed over an attache case containing £315 in notes, which he found…

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Crowded Court The Field Divorce Case Not "A Social Climber" Wife's Mother Gives Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 5

The cross-examination of Mrs. Field was continued in the Field divorce suit to-day. There was another great attendance…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 4

For having behaved in an indecent manner in Prnice street on Thursday night David John Cameron was, at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, fined £2 in…

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Paintings Disappear. Arrest on Stealing Charge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 4

Valuable oil paintings, portion of the property an Italian painter, Signor Nobili, are alleged to have disappeared recently from studio in Rowe sheet…

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Solicitor's Clerk Sentenced Five Years for Fraud Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Cecil Joseph Francis Asprey, 32, solicitor's clerk, was sentenced to five years for frauds totalling £6000…

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Jumping the Rattler Twenty -Four Men Arrested "Pathetic," Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 3

A striking example of the times through which many young Australians are passing in theses days of unemployment was presented at the Grafton…

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Cow and Calf G. Barnier And H. W. Gibbons Lengthy Hearing Concluded Magistrate Orders Cow to Be Returned

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 3

The long drawn-out, case in which Horace W. Gibbous, of Camira Creek, was proceeded against at the Grafton Police Court on September 21 by George Barnier,…

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Phillip St. Tragedy Conclusion Of Inquest Verdict of Murder and Suicide Evidence of Relatives. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1931 · page 3

The inquest concerning the death of Sheila Marjorie Gilligan, whose body was found in the basement of a flat in Phillip street, Sydney, and the finding of the…

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