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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

1,471 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 65 of 74

Cormaba Coramba Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 7

During the past week the local Justices dealt with the following cases:—Alfred Pollard for drunkenness was fined 26 or one day's hard labor in…

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Stolen Motor Cycle Two Men Charged Police Allegations. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Reginald Jack Challenger, 24, and Clarence Thomas, 22, mechanics, were charged with having Stolen a motor' cycle and side-car of the…

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Dismissed Two Police Constables. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 5

The dismissal of two constables from the force to-day created a sensation in police circles. In the case of one man, it is stated, he…

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Woman Before Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 4

Charged with having occasioned bodily harm to H[?]nore Morphew on September on J[?] Middleton was remanded at the Central Court until December 13 on…

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Gulgong Escapee Big Police Force Searching. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 5

Fourteen members of the police force are searching for Thomas Hurter, who escaped from Gulgong lockup a week ago. The latest report is that the fugitive…

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Police Defended by Prisoners' Aid Official. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 5

The managing secretary of the N.S.W Prisoners' Aid Society, Mr. R. W. Robinson, to-day referring to the allegations by the chairman of the Howard Prison…

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Marketing Acts Ultra Vires the Constitution? Appeal to High Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 4

Interest has been aroused in local marketing circles at the action of the Queens land Government in appealing the High Court of Australia against the…

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Fraud Charge Golden Casket Ticket Two Men in Court Boy with Marble. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1932 · page 4

At the local court to-day, Donald Mackay, 45, clerk, and William Llewellyn Evans, 44, traveller, were charged with having conspired with a…

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Coramba Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 2

At Coramba Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., Henry Anderson, William Thompson, J. Delaney, William Smith and E…

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Sentenced to Death Murder of Wife and Two Sons. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 5

Hubert Cedric Jepson was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and two sons at New Plymouth. The jury recommended him to mercy…

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Alleged Criminal Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 3

At the Central Court to-day. Alexander, Shearer, 27. baker, was remanded [?] November 22 on a charge of having [?] assaulted a girl in his employ…

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Solicitor Sentenced 18 Months on Prison Farm Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 5

Bertram Theodore Heavener, 36, a former solicitor, who was yesterday convicted of having omitted to account for part of a client's money, was sentenced to…

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Small Debts Court Dentist Makes Claim

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 4

In the Small Debts Court at Colts Harbour on Wednesday, before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., W. H. T. Riding, dentist, claimed £13/13/ from Samuel…

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Surry Hills Assault Death of Eric Kissick Valentine Charged with Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 November 1932 · page 5

Late this afternoon, Eric Hartley Kissick, 17, who, with his father, was brutally [?]atiered white in bed in an apartment house in Surry Hills yesterday morning,…

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Redfern Shooting Police Still Hopeful. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 November 1932 · page 5

Police this morning interviewed Frederick Williams, 24, the victim of yesterday's shooting at Redfern, but he was unable to give them any information. The…

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Lure of the Turf £10,000 Involved in Frauds Twenty-three Months Gaol Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 November 1932 · page 5

Charged at the Quarter Sessions with having uttered forged share transfers, James John Ferguson was to-day sentenced to 23 months' imprisonment…

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Mining Dispute Concerning a Granites Mine Equity Court Grants Injunction. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 November 1932 · page 5

In the Equity Court this afternoon, Griffith A[?]sley made an ex parte application against Joseph Stevenson, of Haberfield, James Secreet, of Alice…

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Alleged Theft of Explosives

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1932 · page 4

About a hundred plugs of gelignite, a the of detonators, two coils of fuse, a brace and several hits, car battery, torches, pliers, keys, knives, file…

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Coff's Harbor Auctioneer Charged

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1932 · page 3

At the Coff's Harbor police court, before the Police Magistrate, Victor Aaron Rose, auctioneer, was charged by August Nelson With having fraudulently omitted…

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Novel Court Scene

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 November 1932 · page 4

Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., at Burren Junction, A. Samios was fined £3 for being the keeper of dirty premises. The case was heard in the railway…

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