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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

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Brutal Assault Sydney Tram Conductor Thrown Off Tram and Robbed: Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 5

Walter Loftus, train conductor, was the victim of a brutal assault and robbery at a late hour last night. The first that was known of the affair…

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Girls Story Alleged Attempt to Assault jumped through a window. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 5

Tho police detained a man to-night, following on the story of a girl, who alleges that an attempt was made to assault her in a building at Bondi." The attention of…

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Intent to Murder Charge Two Men Committed for Trial. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 5

At Wollongong court, Clarence Sargent and Sidney May were committed tor trial on charges of shooting at Anthony Lalieh, with intent to murder…

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FINED £2 New Guard Leader Called Premier a Scoundrel Magistrate's Judgment Notice of Appeal Given. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 5

Judgment was given to-day. by Mr. Laidlaw, C.S.M., in the case in which . Eric Campbell, leader of the New Guard, was charged with having used…

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Doctor's Claim Upheld by Full Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 4

The Full Court held today that a doctor who operated on a man in a private hospital for an injury suffered in the course of his employment was entitled…

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Collapsed in Court Death of Unemployed Man. Mudgee

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 5

A! teed Byfield, defendant in an ejectment ease at Mudgee, tainted under cross examination and died soon afterwards. Deceased, who had been out of work,…

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'Having It Out' Ulmarra Farmers' Squabble Charges and Countercharges Threatening Language—insulting Words—assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 7

January 27, 1932, will be long remembered by certain residents of the rural township of Ulmarra, and more particularly of the main road leading from the…

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Murder Charge Self-defence Plea Husband and Wife's Lover. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 5

At the trial at the Criminal Court of Montefiore Snellgrove for the alleged murder of Leslie Harford, accused said he did not intend to kill him…

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Bomb Thrown Police Injured at Lucknow. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 5

Four police sub-inspectors, two head constables and three passers-by were, slightly injured last night when a bomb was thrown at a police detachment…

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Train Robbers Throwing Goods Off Trucks Police Arrests Suspects. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 5

During a chase after alleged thieves at Sutherland early this morning, eight shots were fired by the police before the men were apprehended. It is stated that…

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Man Shot Affray At Tweed Heads in Rough Country Police Make Arrest. Tweed Heads

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 4

A shooting affray happened at Bingham Point, six miles from Tweed Heads, this evening, as a result of which one man is in hospital here…

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Maclean Police Court Threw Watermelon

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 3

At the Maelean Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Walter Tunks pleaded guilty to a charge of throwing a missile, to wit a piece' of watermelon,…

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£50 Five for Cattle Stealing

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

At the Drake Police Court on the 22nd ult., before Mr. J. E, McCulloch, Police Magistrate, James Stonebridge, a well-known grazier of the district was…

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Police Association New Secretary Appointed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 5

Mr. C. J. Cosgrove, gaol recorder at Darlinghurst, was to-day appointed secretary of the New South Wales Police Association…

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Woman's Throat Cut Intent to Murder Charge Dying Depositions Denied. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 5

John Thomas Cammidge, 52, fettler, was committed for trial at the Central Court to-day, on a charge of having feloniously wounded Lillian Ethel Hedge,…

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Sex Relations Full Court Judgment Case From Forbes "Must Keep Pace with Modern Times." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 5

Delivering a Full Court judgment the Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street, said the law must keep pace with modern times, and that a judgment…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., yesterday morning, Patrick Walsh, 71, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having been four…

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Alleged Horse Stealing Elderly Hindu Charged Fine of £15 Imposed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday, Cheri Singh, 70, was charged with having an January 25, at Grafton, stolen a brown…

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Sequel to Brisbane Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 8

Consequent upon the murder of M[?] Stephens in Brisbane on Saturday nig[?] last, in the hold-up of herself, her husband and son on their return home with the…

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Cattle Stealing Charges Glenugie Creek Arrests Further Adjournment Granted

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

The case in which Charles James Welch, 19, and Frederick George Essex, 26, were charged with having stolen seven head of cattle, the property of…

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