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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 47 of 66

Three Shot Dead Gaol Riot at New Orleans Thirteen Prisoners Escape New Orleans

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 5

Thirteen heavily armed long term convicts fled to-day from Angela penal farm, after a serious riot during visitors' hour. More than six men were shot, three being…

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Murder Verdict Woman For Trial Surry Hills Stabbing Case Alleged Statement to Witness. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 5

The allegation that the defendant admitted stabbing Arthur Carlisle Elliott, 33, who was found dead in a house in Riley street, Surry Hills, on…

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STARVING Bankrupt And Wife Had £3000--Now Penniless Outburst in Bankruptcy Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 5

There was a stir in the Bankruptcy Court to-day when Henri Weiller, a native of Switzerland, made a sensational outburst during his…

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Petty Thief Sentenced to Three Months Magistrate's Strong Comment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 5

Outspoken comment was made by Mr. McMahon, S.M., at the Central Police Court to-day when he declined to extend leniency to Edward Grant, 30, charged…

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Cessnock Murder Case Appeal Against Death Sentence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 5

Eric Leslie Jones, 29, of Cessnock has filed an appeal with the Court of Criminal Appeal against the sentence of death passed on him at the Central Criminal…

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White Man Ordered Flogging by Native Court. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 5

Two hundred marines, with two howitzers, entrained to-day for Bechuanaland to escort Admiral Evans, Acting high Commissioner, who is on his way to…

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Two Killed Grim Tragedy At Waterloo Murder and Suicide Heads Almost Blown Off. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 4

After murdering a young woman in the hallway of a small house in St. Slias' Place, Waterloo, to-nignt, a man placed a shotgun behind his ear and…

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Wife's Death Husband's Angry Outburst Scene in Coroner's Court Allegation Against Doctor. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 5

An angry outburst by a husband, in which he accused a doctor of "building up fear in my wife's heart that an operation was ten times more…

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RESHUFFLE In Federal Ministry Bruce and Greene Going Latham for High Court Queenslander As Attorney-general. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 5

Considerable changes in the personnel of the Federal Cabinet are expected within the next few weeks, directly resulting from the…

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Police Guard for Mission Station. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 4

Constables Graham and Morey lef[?] Darwin to-day, on the first stage of their journey to Groote Island, 600 miles away, to form a personal guard for the…

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Police Force Removal From Political Control Bill to Be Introduced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 4

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Chaffey, moved, in the Legislative Assembly to-night, for leave to introduce a Bill to appoint the Chief Commissioner of Police…

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OVERTIME Railway Employees an Award Matter Interesting Full Court Judgment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 5

By a judgment delivered by the Full Court to-day all time worked over nine hours in one shift on the railways of New South Wales must be…

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Castle Hill Shooting Man Charged with Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 5

Before the Chamber Magistrate at Parramatta Court to-day, Philip Bruce Benn, 27, orchardist, was charged with having murdered Wallace Edgar…

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Police Court Liquor Act Case

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 1

At Coffs Harbour Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. C. F. Denton, P.M., Albert Edwin Stone pleaded guilty to a charge of having been…

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P.M. Welcomed Coff's Harbor Police Court. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 3

At the Coff's Harbor Police Court to-day, Mr. C. F. Denton, relieving Police Magistrate at Grafton, was Welcomed to the Coff's Harbor Bench by Mr. C. A…

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Police Regulation Bill Introduced in Assembly. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 5

The Police Regulation Bill, fixing the office of Commissioner of Police and the appointment of Deputy Commissioner was introduced in the Legislation Assembly…

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Constable Injured Two Attackers Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 5

Vincent Feeney, 24, was sentenced of three years imprisonment, and his brother Leslie Feeney, 39, to 18 months, at the Quarter Sessions to-day for…

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Acquitted Husband on Murder Charge Tragedy at Yass. Yass

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 5

Reginald Gillogly was to-day acpuitted, at the Quarter Sessions, on a charge of murder arising out of the death of his wife, Ethel Amy Gillogly, in the…

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Crown Appeal Dismissed Full Court Judgment Former Deputy-industrial Commissioner. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 5

The appeal of the State Government against the award by Mr. Justice K. Street, of £2900, to Edward Crawford Magrath, former Deputy-Industrial…

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Son Charged with Murder Father Killed with Cane Knife. Suva

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 5

Returning unexpectedly to find his father with his wife, an Indian, during an argument, is alleged to have cut his father's wrists, legs and ankles with a…

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