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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Charge Reduced Hindu Before Court Small Fine Imposed

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 June 1932 · page 3

That in endeavoring to exercise, his parental control over his daughter, he lost his temper and struck her, was the plea advanced on behalf of Keber Khan…

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Secret Document Exposes Brutal Lang Plan! Found at Parliament House Publication Causes Sensation In Sydney Reign of Terror for State Is Proposed If Lang Party Is Returned Red Guards to Supersede Police Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 June 1932 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph" this morning prints a facsimile, of a document which is alleged to have been found in a room at Parliament House said to have been occupied by sitting members of the Lang party. It is marked strictly confidential and its publication to-day caused a…

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"I Will Murder the Police."

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 June 1932 · page 4

"I will murder the police" is a threat alleged to have been made by an aboriginal participant in a brawl among aborigines at North Lismore early on…

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Ulmarra Police Court Driving Unregistered Car

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 June 1932 · page 6

At the Ulmarra Court on Petty Sessions on 'Wednesday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Henry Gillett pleaded guilty to driving an unregistered motor…

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New Guard Assault Case Appeal Adjourned to Monday. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 June 1932 · page 5

"Royal Commissions have nothing to do with the Courts of Justice," remarked Judge Curlewis, at the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court to-day, when he refused to…

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Expensive Leather Valued At 2 Fine of £4 Theft at Grafton Railway Station

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 June 1932 · page 3

For having stolen a piece of leather of the value of 2, the property of the Transport Commissioners of New South Wales, Alfred Duffy, 29, was, at the…

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Head Blown Off Murder Suspected Tragedy at Victorian Mine. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 June 1932 · page 4

The strange circumstances of the death of James John Egan, 57, a contractor, whose decapitated body was found on March 22 near old mine workings at…

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Murder Charge London Society Woman Young Man Shot Dead "What Have You Done?" London

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 June 1932 · page 4

Crowds of fashionably dressed women queued up outside Westminster Police Court, but only about 20 obtained admission when Mrs. Elvira…

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Freak Will Reflection on Wife Court Sanctions Alteration. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 June 1932 · page 4

In a reserved judgment Mr. Justice Mann sanctioned a compromise between the propounders of the will of Edwin William Halse, fish shop proprietor, of…

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Two Children Bodies Found Floating Police Dragging for Mother's Body. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 June 1932 · page 4

This morning Harry Truman, 13, of Sunshine, found the bodies of two boys, about 41 and 2 years, floating fully clothed in a swimming pool a mile from…

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Crowded Court Moxley Murder Trial Plea of Not Cuilty Eleven Jurors Challenged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 5

The trial commenced at the Central Criminal Court this morning of William Cyril Moxley, who is charged with having on April 5, at…

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Three Years N.Z. Communists Sentenced. Wellington ([?].Z.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 5

Charged with the publication and distribution of "The Red Worker" and other Communist literature, Richard Francis Griffin, Alexander Galbraith and…

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Solicitor Charged Misappropriation of £250 Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 2

At the Central Court to-day, Lancelot George Blackmore, 30, solicitor, was remanded until June 28, on a charge of having fraudulently misappropriated a cheque…

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Police Raids. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 3

Detectives made six raids on premises at which, it is alleged, the sale of shares in Slate lottery tickets was taking place…

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Adjourned Again Garden Assault Case Amended Plea Judge and Crown Counsel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 4

The case in which eight men, alleged to be members of the New Guard are appealing against their conviction on a charge of having…

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Wages Claim Master And Servant Argument Over Pots and Pans Magistrate Has No Jurisdiction

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday Amy Beatrice Ellem instituted proceedings against Walter Edward Morgan, dairy farmer, of Whiteman, for the…

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Car Stealing Man Charged in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Arthur Charles Edwards, or Douglas Clarence, was remanded on a charge of having stolen a car in Brisbane on June 8…

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Theft of Stolen Cars

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 1

The disclosure of the heavy and systematic traffic in stolen motor vehicles is e[?]gagidg the full attention of the N.R.M.A. which claims that the thefts would…

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Local and General Remanded on Charge of Theft

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 4

Jack Smith, 42, was remanded at the Grafton Police Court yesterday on a charge of having at Grafton on June 12, stolen a sum of £4, the property of Violet…

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Police Cordon Sixty Miles Long Shocking Triple Murder Bodies Found in Wood Swift, Sensational Arrest. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 June 1932 · page 5

A mysterious triple shooting tragedy is revealed by the discovery of the bodies of two well-dressed women, aged about 65 and 35, and a…

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