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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Folios Court Incident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 3

At I lie Cloneurry (Qld.) Police Court the other day, John Maekormaek was charged with wilfully damaging a railway bridge. Constable Askin gave evidence…

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N.Z. Murder Strange Circumstances. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 5

In connection with the murler of John Corrigan and his wife. Ellen Corrigan, it is stated that their son. John Corrigan. awakened his sister and brother and told…

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Supreme Court the Grafton Sittings

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 4

The sittings of the Supreme Court will open at Grafton to-morning morning at .30 o'clock. His Honor Mr. Justice Kenneth Street will preside and Mr. F.A. Dwyer…

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Scattered! Crowd at Race Meeting Police in Disguise. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 1

Police raided the Horsley Estate, eight miles from Fairfield, yesterday, following, a report that betting on a large scale had been carried on there. When they arrived…

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ENFORCEMENT Decision Reserved New Points- Raised High Court Argument Ends. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 5

Addresses in reply to new points raised by counsel for the Commonwealth, in their arguments on the Financial Agreement Enforcement…

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New Zealand Murder. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 5

John Corrigan, 23, was remanded until Tuesday at Mangamahoe to-day on a charge of having murdered his father and mother. The police stated that defendant…

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W.A. Murder Appeal Against Death Sentence Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 5

John Thomas Smith, alias "Snowy" Rowles, will appeal against the death sentence passed on him on a charge of having wilfully murdered Leslie Brown,…

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Supreme Court Criminal and Civil Actions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 4

His Honor Mr. Justice Kenneth Street, who will preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court, commencing at Grafton this morning, arrived by train from…

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Radio Sets in Cells Gaol Mystery Solved One Concealed in Bible. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 5

For some time the authorities at Mt. Eden prison have been mystified as to the source of prisoners' knowledge of events in the outside world…

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Police Promotions Changes in Higher Ranks Supt. Mackay Next Commissioner? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 5

Supt. Mackay, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch, has been promoted to the position of Acting Metropolitan Superintendent of Police. By virtue of the…

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Ten Per Cent. Cut Arbitration Court Argument "Basic Wage a Sweating Wage" Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 5

Mr. C. Crofts, supporting the claim for the restoration of the te[?] per cent. cut in wages which is before the Full Bench of the Arbitration Court, said that at the…

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Gaol Breaking Coff's Harbor Escapee Pleads Guilty at Supreme Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 4

Before his Honor Mr. Justice Street, in the Supreme Court sitting at Grafton yesterday Nelson Raynor, 19, pleaded guilty to a charge of having on September 26,…

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Barrie Murder Morton Sentenced To Death Judge Agrees with Verdict Battered Old Man and Woman. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court today William Morton, 26, laborer, was charged with having murdered Alexander Frederick Barric, 85, at his…

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Cards on Train Men Charged With Cheating

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 2

Robert Denman and Harry Burton Vallander appeared!before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at Coffe Harbour Police Court, on remand, on two…

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Divorce Court Jurors

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 4

His Honor Mr. Justice Street announced yesterday that the jurors summoned for, the divorce sittings, of the Supreme Court at Grafton will not be required to…

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Embezzlement Alleged Country Press Co-op. Clerk Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day, Albert. Thomas Wordsworth, 39, a clerk, was remanded until April 4, on a charge of having embezzled £30 from the…

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Board at Hotel Court Case Settled

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 3

Patrick skip, against whom a warrant was issued at Coffs Harbour Police Court on March 16 tor his arrest for disobeying a summons, was…

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'Not Guilty' Lismore Murder Case Elderly Hindu on Trial Acquitted and Arrested on Another Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 7

Rhem Singh, an elderly Hindu, presented a sorry sight when he was placed in the dock at the Supreme Court, Grafton, yesterday, before his Mr. Justice…

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Missing Jewellery £450 Worth of Rings Breaking and Entering Charge Young Man at Supreme Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 4

A plea of not guilty was entered at the Supreme. Court, Grafton, before hia Honor, Mr. Justice Street, by Lesle Robert Kent. 26. to the charge of having at…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1932 · page 4

At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday morning J. O'Sullivan and William Russell, a colored man were charged with having been found drunk…

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