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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 36 of 66

Two Months' Gaol Stole Rug From Motor Car. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 4

Alleged to have taken a rug from a motor car which he said he was minding, James Kennedy, 50, a laborer, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment,…

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"Not Much Drunk" Aboriginals at Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 2

Three aboriginals, Billy Boney. (54), Lizzie Boney (50), and Jimmy Marsh (46), were charged at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, with having been found…

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Third Degree Alleged Prisoner and Police Questioned for Eleven Hours. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 5

The allegation that he had been brutally attacked by the police after 11 hours' questioning, and forced to make a statement incriminating himself,…

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Murdered Three Women Italian Sentenced to Death. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1933 · page 5

At Spezia (Italy) Cesar Serviatti was found guilty and sentenced tp death for murdering and dismembering three women, whose savings he. secured under promise…

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Maclean Appeal Court Municiual Assessments

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1933 · page 2

Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., decided the different appeals lodged against the Assessments made by the Maclean municipality on Thursday last, which had been…

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Girl and Lover Found In Dying Embrace Girl's Death From Poison Told Police to Go Away. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1933 · page 4

Giving evidence at an inquest into the death of Maida Garner, 17, of Albion, who died in the Brisbane Hospital on June 13, from strychnine…

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Alleged Assault Neighboring Farmers Quarrel Magistrate Dismisses Information

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 4

The adjourned hearing of the case in which Albert James Wallis, farmer of Pillar Valley, proceeded against Stanley George Lloyd, a neighboring farmer upon…

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Bank Robbery Insurance Companies Sued Claim for £6200 Echo of Cloncurry Theft. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 5

Three insurance companies, the Ocean, Accident and Guarantee, the Queensland Insurance Company, and the London Assurance Corporation,…

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Charge of Murder Baby in Rubbish Tip Young Woman at Hotel Charleville

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 5

Thelma Grace Clare, 23, a single woman, appeared at the police court to-day, charged with the murder of her newly born male child…

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S. Grafton Council Bent Street Concrete Road Access to Properties Tennis Court Lighting

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 7

The ordinary meeting of the South Grafton Municipal Council was held last night, there being present: The Mayor (Ald. Carl T. Sehwinghammer), Alds. T…

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King's Evidence Sensation In Court 'Paid for Bomb Throwing' Attempt on Petrol Depot. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 5

The case involving the sensational attempt to blow up the premises of Independent Oil Industries, Ltd., at Glebe on January 7 took a dramatic…

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Local and General Lion Surprises Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 July 1933 · page 4

As the Magistrate of Omaruru (South Africa) was motoring to Karibib to hold a Periodical Court, a lion sprang into the road about 50 yards in front of the…

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Took Clients' Money Customs Agent Sent to Gaol Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 July 1933 · page 5

Declaring that it was essential that people in a position of trust must be absolutely honest, Judge Curlewis, at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, senfenced Harry…

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Revolution Over Declaration by Hitler People Jeer Ex-police Chief. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 July 1933 · page 5

"The resolution is over," declared the Chancellor (Herr Hitler) in a communique to State Governors who are warned that they are now responsible for the main…

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Set of Harness Man Charged with Theft Acqquittal Recorder

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 4

Aubrey Bernard Heber appeared before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., at Coffs Police Court on Wednesday on a charge of stealing a set of harness…

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Noisy Footballers Youths Charged at Court Evidence of Identification Lacking

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 3

Nine youths belonging to the Woolgoolga second grade football team were acquitted at Coffs Harbour Police Court on Wednesday on…

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Police Object An Auctioneer's License

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 2

Police objections were lodged against the granting of an auctioneer's license to Victor Aaron Rose, Coffs Harbour, but at the court on…

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Heart Failure Woman Dies; Son Collapses Assault at First Feared. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 5

Answering a call to a house at Bondi this afternoon, the police found Mrs. McPhail (70) dead on the floor and her son unconscious beside her bleeding freely…

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Words on Beach Court Decides Family Quarrei

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 1

The postponed case from the Jetty, in which Florence May Burnett charged her brother-in-law, James Burnett, with having used insulting words to…

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Police Pay Tribute Victim of Burglar Chase. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 5

Nearly 30 police, representing all ranks, attended the funeral to-day, of Arthur Rose, who received fatal injuries when pursuing the burglar who wounded…

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