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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 66

Police and Strikers Fight in Barcelona. Barcelona

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 5

The Anarchists, are being arrested at the rate of 200 a day, but in spite of this crime increases. Bomb explosions occurred in two factories and a hundred…

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Unsophisticated Defendant Counterfeiting Case at Parramatta Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 4

There was a remarkable incident at the Parramatta Sessions, when William Green, one of four persons charged with having uttered counterfeit coins, after saying he…

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Brutal Assault Aged Chinese Robbed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 5

Loy Young. 62, was the victim of a brutal assault in the city early this morning when, after having been punched and kicked into an unconscious condition, he…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court Alleged Betting on Hotel Premises Charges Against Licenser and Barman Fails. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 3

Before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., at the Coff's Harbor Court, charges against Robert James Garrett, licensee of the Fitzroy Hotel, for having suffered betting…

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Brilliant Davis Cup Victory in Singles Crawford And McGrath Defeat Nunoi and Satoh Terrific Hitting on Rain Soaked Court. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 5

The A.P.A. special representative at Roland Garos Stadium says that after many tense moments Crawford and McGrath won two great victories…

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'Half Full' But Appeared Before P,m, Grafton Police Court Incident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 2

"How many drinks have you had this morning?" said Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., to Joseph Reed, 48, at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning…

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Vagrants Keeping Bad Company Sent to Gaol for One Month

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 3

Allegations that they were making little effort to support themselves, and that they were keeping bad company, were made at the Grafton Police Court…

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Congress Leaders Early Release From Gaol Viceroy Studying Position. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 5

Significance is attached to the Vice-roy's few days' visit to Nainital, the summer headquarters of the United Provinces Government, where it is…

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Dismissals in Victorian Police Force. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 4

A statement that two detectives had been dismissed and other members of the force probably will be dealt with similarly was made in the Criminal Court to-day…

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Fraud Alleged Charge Against Auctioneers Police Allegations. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 5

That bogus sales had been conducted and "buttoners" employed in the business was alleged by Detective Lawrence at the Central Court this afternoon when…

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S.P. Betting No Post Office Information Police Rebuffed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 5

The task of special squads of police in checking illegal betting is being made very difficult because the avenues of information to which the…

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Into the Sea 1500 Guns and Pistols Confiscated by the Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 5

Revolvers and pistols of all typos seized and confiscated by the police during the last few months were taken outside the heads in a police launch to-day and…

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Cut Restoration Standard 44-Hour Week Claim Before Full Arbitration Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 5

Addressing the Full Arbitration Court to-day, during the hearing of the claim by the Australian Textile Workers' Union for the restoration of the 10 per cent…

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Coramba Police Court Dismissed Costs Against Complainant

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 7

Before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., at Coramba police court, Thomas A. Mulhearn, jun. v. John B. Carroll, for alleged indecent language…

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In Empty Truck on Railway Property Offenders Before Coramba Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 2

Before Messrs. T. T. Macaulay and A. Lindsay, Js.P., at the Coramba Police Court, the following persons were charged with trespassing on railway property,…

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Thirty-hour Week Rejected Decision of Full Arbitration Court. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 4

The combined unions' application for a 30-hour week was refused by the Full Arbitration Court to-day. Mr. Justice Webb said if the proposal…

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Dr, Storer Case Magistrate Reserves Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 5

After hearing further evidence to-day in the case in which Dr. Robert Vivian Storer is being proceeded against on information alleging that he sold an obscene…

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J,p, Sentenced Forging and Uttering Charge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 5

James Herbert Tweedale, a Justice of the Peace, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of having forged the…

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Long Court Hours

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 3

When adjournments were mentioned at Coff's Police Court a couple of times on Wednesday the Police Magistrate, Mr. Henry Hawkins,…

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Uttering False Coins Two Men and Two Women Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 4

Herman Carl Oberdoff, 29, engineer, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment; William Henry Green, 54, wharf laborer, to 23 months; Ellen Master…

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