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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 35 of 66

"Incorrigible Offender'' Three Years for Theft of Wallet. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 5

Convicted on a charge of stealing a wallet, Andrew Somerville was sentenced to three years. The Judge said that the prisoner was an incorrigible offender and…

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Infant's Body Recovered Suspicion of Murder. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 5

The post-mortem examination of the body of the infant recovered from Mercwether beach yesterday revealed that it had lived. The police are satisfied that…

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S.P. Men Warned Gaol Instead of Fine Children Used to Make Bets. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 5

A warning that he would send starting price bookmakers to gaol in future instead of fining them, was given by the Magistrate in Prahran Police Court to-day…

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Alsatian Dogs for Police for Patrol on Waterfront. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 1

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Childs, has decided that police patrolling the waterfront shall be accompanied by Alsatian dogs which have undergone a…

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Ulmarra Police Court Breaches of Motor Regulations

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 4

At the Ulmurra Police Court on Wednesday before Messrs H. G. Greenaway and R. Carlton, Js.P., George Charles Robert Stockdale was charged that on June 16…

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Maltese Plot Disclosed to Murder, Lord Strickland. Malta

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 5

A committee is investigating a sworn charge by a Nationalist member of Parliament, Albert Mizzi, that a police inspector. whom he names, approached him…

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Begging Nuisance Special Police Necessary. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 5

When Alfred Davidson, 35, appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of begging alms in city streets, the Police Prosecutor said that this practice was…

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Road Records "Valueless Stunts," Says Police Chief. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police intends to recommend that action be taken against motorists attempting or creating records on the ground that excessive speed is…

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Crime Prices £10 For 'Knocking Rotten' Remarkable List Quoted a Murder Would Cost £100. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 5

Ernest Herbert Lanyon, of Dandenong, was remanded for sentence at the General Sessions to-day on a charge of having maliciously incited…

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Daring Escape From Police Car Handcuff Wrenched Off in Bush Near Kempsey. Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 4

Wrenching himself free by brute force from a fellow prisoner to whom he was handcuffed, Carl Delroy, who was arrested at Port Macquarie,…

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Unique Charge Wasting Time Of Police False Statement Alleged Defendant to Stand Trial. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 4

One of the most unusual charges and the first of its kind in the history of the Victorian police force came before the South Melbourne Police…

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Died in Arms of Policemen As Name Was Called in Court. Armidale

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 5

About the time his name was being called at the Armidale Police Court on a charge of drunkenness, Bruce Anderson was dying in the arms of two policemen…

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Coff's Harbor Chamber of Commerce Meeting Establishment of District Court Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 7

At the Coff's Harbor Chamber of Commerce meeting on Friday night, it was decided to again make representation to the Minister for Justice for the…

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Court's Surprise Cattle Stealing Case

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 3

Having obtained leniency on the plea of poverty, a defendant at Coff's Police Court last week greatly surprised the Court when he declined a…

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Taree Poisoning Case Mrs. Hannah Webster Charged Taree

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 4

At the police court to-day, Mrs. Hannah Webster, who was arrested yesterday, was remanded until July 24, on a charge of having feloniously administered poison to…

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Maclean Institute Question of Ratability Valuation Court Appeal Dismissed. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 1

In the Valuation Court at Maclean today, Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., gave his reserved decision in the matter in which the Maclean Literary Institute Committee…

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Clash in Court Coroner And Counsel 'Biased Against Motorists' Motor Smash at Homebush Parramatta

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 5

The District Coroner, Mr. Richardson Clark, to-day committed Frank Leonard Kleinig, driver of a car, for trial en a charge of manslaughter,…

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District Court Dorrigo Case at Bellingen Feros v. MEGALOCONNOMEN Claim Under Landlord and Tenant Act; Reduction of Rent

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 5

This was a case arising out of the letting of restaurant premises at Dorrigo. The main contest at issue was the…

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Maclean Police Court Language Charges

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 2

At the Maclean Police Court, before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., on Thursday last, Charles Edward Gray, of Maclean, was charged with using indecent language in…

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Another Man's Coat Charge of Theft at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 8

At the Maclean Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M. Leonard Landrigan, of .Palmer's Island. appeared on remand to answer a charge of…

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