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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Chopper Used Man's Head Smashed Brutal Murder at Unemployment Camp. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 4

Michael Desmond, 55, unemployed, was brutally murdered at the unemployment camp, which is only 100 yards from the Sutherland railway…

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Stole From Gaol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 2

At Penrith Police Court, on Monday, William Smith was found guilty of stealing a pair of trousers arid a flannel shirt from Goulburn Gaol, and…

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Alleged Theft "Mill Belt from Repton"

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 1

At Dorrigo Police Court Timothy Quiulan and Walter Gill, who own a small sawmill at Leigh, came before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., on a…

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Fifty Men Sentenced Aftermath of Auckland Riots. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 5

The maximum penalty of three years was imposed on 50 men arrested during the recent rioting…

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Young Woman's Death Police Commence Inquiries

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 4

Following the death early yesterday morning of Miss Cassy Martin, 21, of Grafton, the body was removed to the morgue where the Government Medical…

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Three Years Two Italians Sentenced White Slave Traffic Case at Lismore Sessions. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 4

"A bad ease," commented Judge Clancy, at the Lismore Quarter Sessions this afternoon when Victor Callegari and Innocent Larese, who…

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Arson Change Police Threat Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 5

Frederick Tzzard and Amos Green were committed for trial by the Windsor Coroner on a charge of arson in connection with a fire at the home of Percy…

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Bullet in Lung Garage Proprietor Shot Murder Near Hobart. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 5

Shot at close range by one of a party of three men, who drove up to his garage at Kempton, 28 mlies from Hobart, early this morning, Herbert McKinley died…

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Police Parade 1400 to March To-day Governor to Take Salute. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 4

A parade of police on a scale seldom witnessed in Sydney will be held to-morrow when more than 1400 of the force will march in procession through the principal…

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Tas, Murder Three Men Before Court. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

At the local court to-day, Henry Price, 29, Keith William Wrathall, 26, laborers, and John Keith Tingman, engineer, were remanded for eight days, on a charge of…

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Girl Wife's Wealth Shocking Murder in France Family Sent to Gaol. Paris

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

After inducing a wealthy orphan girl to marry Armand Donnadien, the latter's family, who are rich but miserly, began a campaign to get possession of the girl's…

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Telegrams Never Advised Stealing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 8

The Minister for Education, Mr. Davies, last night gave an absolute denial to the statement that in a speech at Newtown he had urged the people to seal. He…

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Dole No Disgrace Comment by Magistrate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

When Allan Murphy, 56, bookmaker, was charged at the Burwood Court with having attempted to commit suicide, evidence was given that the defendant had…

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Wilkinson-denzel Murder Accused Moxley Remanded Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

"William Cyril Moxley, 34, a woodcutter, was remanded at the Central Court to-day, until Tuesday next, on a charge of having at Liverpool, on or…

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Police March Governor Takes the Salute. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

Fourteen hundred members of the police force marched through the city streets to-day. They were reviewed by the Governor, Sir Philip Game, who took…

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Youth Shot 'Red-Bearded Man' Mate's Story to Police May Be a Fabrication. New Castle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

Samuel Caiderwood, 19, was fatally shot in the head in the bush near Mulbring, in the Kurri Kurri district, this morning…

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18 Months Dairy Co. Secy, Sentenced "Not the Only One Concerned." Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 May 1932 · page 4

Patrick Casey, ex-secretary of Casino Co-operative Dairy Society, who was found guilty at Lismore Quarter Sessions of, on January 22, 1931, making a false entry in…

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Murder Mysteries Recent Unsolved Crimes Glen Innes Shooting Case Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 May 1932 · page 5

Detectives investigating the three recent murders still unsolved have come into possession of information which may lead them to make arrests in at…

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Court Refuses Attorney-general's Request to Stop Criminal Action. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 May 1932 · page 5

A request by the Attorney-General that no further criminal proceedings should be taken against a man who had been sentenced to imprisonment for two years…

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May Die Man Who Smashed Window Desperate--wanted to Go to Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 May 1932 · page 5

Desperate through inability to obtain employment, Austin Walsh, 29, of no fixed abode, smashed a plateglass window of a shop at Parramatta to-night by…

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