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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Police Warning Share System Lottery Tickets. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 5

Police are investigating allegations that State lottery tickets have been sold on the share system. Certain persons are reported to have issued these tickets without…

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Three Killed Police and Unemployed Clash. Detroit

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 5

Three persons are dead and more than a score were injured when police clashed with 3000 unemployed marchers who attempted to enter the employment offices…

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Strong Police Guard Big Trial in Melbourne. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 5

When six men who were charged with shooting Constable Derbam with intent to murder him, were brought to the Criminal Court to-day the prison van was…

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Improper Conduct Warning to Solicitors Divorce Court Judge Speaks Out Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 5

The Judge in Divorce, Mr. Justice Owen, strongly commented on the "highly improper" conduct of a number of solicitors in Pending divorce suits…

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Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 3

At the Ulmarra Police Court on Wednesday before Mr. C.G. Carr Boyd, P.M., Leonard Bailey was charged with failing to attach a duty stamp to a receipt…

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Stabbed with Knife Warders in Maitland Gaol. Maitland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 3

During the midday meal in Maitland gaol, three warders were stabbed with a knife by a prisoner. Two prisoners locked in adjoining cells became noisy, and the…

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False Advertisement Man Sent to Gaol for Month. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 3

In the Criminal Court, Joseph Cocking, blacksmith, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of having attired a false document…

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Shots Fired by Casino Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 4

Constables Fleming and Kennedy, of Casino, recovered a stolen car on Saturday night after firing three shots from revolvers when the men in the car refused…

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Death Sentence Commuted S.A. Murder Case. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

The Executive Council to–day commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence passed on Arthur Thomas James, aged 17, for the murder of Mrs. Edna…

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On the Track Detectives As Hoboes Paddington Crime Search for Murder Suspect Dramatic Arrest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

After months of unceasing search, during which detectives, dressed as hoboes, tramped from one end of New South Wales to the other in search…

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Alleged Theft of Railway Property

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 4

Oswald Kelly, 36, appeared before Mr. F. H. Cleland, J.P., at the Grafton Police Court, yesterday, on a charge of having, at Grafton, during the mouth of…

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Maclean Police Court Sequel to Collision Motorist Fined for Traffic Breach

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 4

On Thursday before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Maclean Police Court, Norman Wantage pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Oval lane,…

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Yagoona Murder Was Callous and Brutal Woodley on Trial. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court today Reginald Frederick Woodley, 19, laborer, was charged with having murdered Cecil Budworth Baker, at…

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Then and Now Ten Per Cent. Wage Cut Case Before Arbitration Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 5

"If anyone is to take the responsibility Of reducing the purchasing power of the people in order that private industry may put some of the unemployed into work if…

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Charge of Stealing Petrol Mudgee Residents Charged. Mudgee

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1932 · page 5

Three well-known residents of Mudgee were arrested yesterday and charged at the local court with having broken into Hicks' store, at Gulgong, and stolen 40…

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Charge of Stealing Books. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1932 · page 8

The Rev. Wilfred Keith Steward was charged at the local court with having stolen £60 worth of books, the property of the Rev. E. S. Kick, principal of the…

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Fine of £8 Stealing From Railway Trucks. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1932 · page 5

At the Burwood Court to-day Horace James, 20, and Leslie Jackson, 20, were charged with having trespassed on railway property, malicously damaged a…

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Consorting with Criminals First Woman Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1932 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day Nellie Cameron, 21, the victim of the recent shooting affray, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for having…

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Valedictory Supt, C, . J, Lindfield Popular Police Officer

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1932 · page 3

A fine tribute to the esteem in which Supt. C. J. Lindfield is held by the officers of the police force on the North Coast was paid at the police barracks,…

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Charred Remains Discovered by the Police Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1932 · page 5

Finding the doors and windows of a cottage at Normanhurst locked, the police this morning battered down the door and discovered the charred remains…

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