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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

1,471 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 48 of 74

Bridge Fatality Funeral Of Victims Four Hundred Police. in Attendance Big Wreaths Sent by Polson Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 August 1932 · page 5

The funerals, of Constables McCunn and Bush, who were killed by a car on the Harbor Bridge, on Friday night, took place at Rookwood today…

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Anti-war Demonstration Police Court Sequel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

Thirty-four men and two women who were arrested during the Communist anti-war demonstration on August 1 appeared at the Central Court to-day on various…

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Remanded on Charge of Theft

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 4

Dirk McGregor, 25, appeared before Mr. J. Tarn, J.P., at the Grafton Police Court, yesterday morning, and was charged that on or about September 20,…

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Union Secretary Charged. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 7

William Charles McKenzie, 44, married, secretary of the West Australian Timber Workers' Union, was arrested yesterday on a charge of having stolen £100, which…

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Publican Attacked and Stabbed Three Men Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

Joseph Maffesoni, licensee of the Doncaster Hotel, Kensington, was subjected to a brutal attack by three men, when he asked them to' pay for their drinks…

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Search for Gold Police Disappointed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

The passengers who arrived from New Zealand by the steamer Zealandia to-day witnessed an unusual spectacle of a party of police boarding the steamer to search…

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Ingham Murder 'Called Me a Scabby--' Accused Pleads Not Guilty. Townsville

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

The trial of George Barry Mitchell, on a charge of the murder of Alexander Fleming, at Ingham, commenced to-day. Edward Gallagher, a railway clerk,…

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Wagga Police Chase Constable Threatened with Axe. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

Thieves broke into a garage here yesterday and opened the safe, from which they took £8, besides stealing a quantity of motor accessories. An exciting chase…

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Fought Police to the Last Suicide with Last Bullet. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

Barricading himself in his flat a fugitive thief named Puschlow defied the police for two hours, firing a hundred shots at them before his supply of…

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Senator Dunn and Doctor's Bill District Court Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1932 · page 5

In the District Court to-day Senator J. P. Dunn was directed to pay £10126 to Dr. H. Kenny for medical attention to one of his children. Senator Dunn's plea…

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Horse Trainer's Wife Victim of Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1932 · page 3

The police are inquiring into a complaint by W. Thompson that his wife was attacked by a woman and a man. who called at their home at Parramatta…

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Saywell Murder Widow Remembers Nothing Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1932 · page 5

Mrs. Claude Saywell, who was seriously injured at the same time as her husband was murdered, at their home at Bellevue Hill, some months ago, was…

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Emergency Decree Political Conditions in Germany Special Court to Try Offences. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1932 · page 5

President Von Hindenburg is expected to sign an emergency decree, providing the death penalty for high treason, arson, using explosives, damaging railways,…

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Six Months' Gaol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 August 1932 · page 3

Robert Menzies, a sturdily-built man in his early thirties, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Kempsey Police Court this week…

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Talkies "Up for Murder"--to-night

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 August 1932 · page 7

The Universal story of the "eternal triangle" is depicted in "Up For Murder," which will be, screened to-night only at the Garden Theatre, with Lew…

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The Law an Ass' Industrial Court Ruinous to Country. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 August 1932 · page 5

Addressing the half-yearly meeting of Mangrovite Belting, Ltd., the chairman. Mr. Chas. Ludowici, said that the law was an ass, and that the Industrial Court…

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Stealing by Finding

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 August 1932 · page 4

Lewis Solomon, a naval pensioner, was charged, at Brisbane Police Court, with having stolen a diamond ring, valued at £40, the property of Bertha Marwick, in…

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Police Transfers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 August 1932 · page 4

Confirmation of the approval of the following police transfers was made available at the office of the District Superintendent of Police, Grafton, yesterday:…

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Iluka Police Station Closed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 August 1932 · page 4

Official information has been received of the intention of the Police Department to close the police station at Iluka. Constable W. J. Wiggins, formerly of…

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Sydney Drug Traffic Chinese Dealer in Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 August 1932 · page 4

When Yen Hon, 48, dealer, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having had cocaine in his possession, the police prosecutor said it was alleged that the…

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