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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 61 of 65

Wanted by Police Victorian Election Candidate Peculiar Situation. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 December 1931 · page 5

A quarter of an hour before nominations closed to-day, a man over whom prison sentences totalling eight years and three months are hanging, walked into…

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Moratorium Act Application to Queensland Judgment Important Decision of Police Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 4

At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions a few days ago, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P. M., made an important decision as to the application of the New South Wales…

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Mail Robbery Charge of Stealing £10.000 Ryan Fails to Appear. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 5

The Canberra mail robbery, which occurred in May last, was revived at the Quarter Sessions to- day, when the names of Joseph Harold Ryan and Lancelot…

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Escaped Prisoner Walks Into Police Station. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 3

After having escaped from a police escort by jumping from the Broken Hill express at Codlawirra on Saturday, Sydney James Farrell, 21, walked into…

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Wounding a Constable Charge of Intent to Murder Plea of Insanity. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Loftus Arthur Johns (45) was charged with having feloniously wounded Constable Donald 1Smith with intent to murder…

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Grave of Missing Planter Police Search in Vain. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 5

One day last week the police received a letter card from an anonymous sender stating that the grave of Henry Jacobson, a retired planter, who disappeared about…

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Parisian Tragedy Two Men Dead Woman Injured Police Use Tear Gas Bombs. Paris

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 5

The police had to use tear gas bombs to enter a flat in the suburbs where they found Cecil Diaz, described as an Australian sculptor, and a former French…

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Stealing Charge Preferred Against Sergeant Money Alleged to Be Taken From Till Magistrate Dismisses the Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1931 · page 5

A charge of stealing £11 was preferred against Sergeant Cecil Joseph Chunk by [?]ande Booth, grocer, of Summer Hill, at the Glebe Court to- day…

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Alleged Theft of Fencing Wire

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1931 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning Timothy O'Driscoll, 30, was charged with having at Warragai Creek on or about October 22 stolen three coils…

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Alleged Assault a Case From Yamba

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1931 · page 1

At Maclean Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. S. A. J. Small and W. J. Rolph, J.'sP., a young man named Charles William Davis, who gave his occupation…

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Opium Traffic Suspected Police Make Haul

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1931 · page 2

The presence of opium traffic on the Tweed is believed to underlie the discovery by the police of a quantity of the narcotic, together with smoking…

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Mishap Cheats Car Thieves Smart Police Work

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1931 · page 6

Speedy police co-operation, plus a mishap, led to the recovery of a stolen car and the detention of two men on suspicion by the Murwillumbah police…

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Two Men Arrested Women Challenge Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1931 · page 5

Five detectives, who this morning raided a fiat at Glebe, and arrested two men in connection with the hold-up of six others, were met by a number of women,…

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Six Years Gaol Company Manager Sentenced Extensive Frauds Over Years. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 December 1931 · page 5

In the Central Criminal Court to-day, David Philip Ogilvy (46), company manager, who pleaded guilty to forgery, was sentenced to six years penal servitude…

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Law Clerk Sentenced Embezzlement of Funds. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 December 1931 · page 1

A sentence of four years imprisonment was imposed on Charles Everest, 36, formerly managing law clerk employed by Loughrey and Douglas, solicitors, for…

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Parramatta Sensation Police Office Suspended. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 December 1931 · page 6

There was a further sensation in police circles this morning when it was revealed that a well- known police officer in the Parramatta district had been…

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Ulmarra Police Court Failure to Stamp Receipt

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 7

At the Ulmaara Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Charles Pullen was proceeded against under the Stamp Duties Act for failing to…

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Stealing From a Bank. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 7

At the fourth trial of George Kenslow, to-day, he was conviced and sentenced to ten years hard labor for stealing £950 from the Commercial Bank of…

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Bank Manager Charged. Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 5

Alan O. Baxter, 35, who had been manager of a branch of the State Savings Bank for several years, was arrested at Collie yesterday, and charged with…

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Telegrams Charge of Stealing Explosives. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 7

Two men employed at the Long Bay rifle range were arrested to-day and changed with stealing a quantity of explosives from a shed at the rear of the…

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