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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 50 of 66

Judge Flies to Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 October 1933 · page 4

Owing to the untrafficable state of the roads Mr. Justice Brennan was held up at Barcaldine (Q.) on Wednesday and had to requisition an aeroplane to be in…

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Card Game Man Lured To Death Police Recover Revolver Now Searching for Owner. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 October 1933 · page 5

The police have established that John Keane, who wa[?] murdered by gunmen at Mascot on Friday morning, was lured to a house, where he…

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Charged with Drunkenness

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 4

William Pirie, 54, appeared before Mr. G. F. Denton, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, and pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found drunk in…

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Motor Traffic Breaches of Regulations Grafton Police Court Cases

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 2

A number of prosecutions under the motor traffic regulations were heard before Mr. [?]. F. [?]. P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday…

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Police And Communists CLASH! Fists And Sticks Used Pedestrians Scatter "Six Hour Day" Procession. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 5

Undeterred by threat of rain thousands of people lined the city streets this morning to witness the first annual "Six Hour Day" procession,…

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Court Like Clothes Shop

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 October 1933 · page 4

With heaps of clothes ranged round the witness box, the Young Courthouse was reminiscent of a clothes' shop, when John Clancy and James McDonald were charged…

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Seven Years in Gaol After That, the Mission Field. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 5

When sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and declared to be an habitual criminal, a prisoner told the officials at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day that he…

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Judge Lukin Canberra's First Supreme Court Judge. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 5

The announcement that it was proposed to appoint the Federal Judge in Bankruptcy, Judge Lukin, as first Judge of Canberra Supreme Court, was made by…

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The High Court No Vacancy for Latham. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 2

In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Lyons was asked by Mr. Ward to "clarify the position and end the speculations now rife as to Mr. Latham's…

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Armed Man Desperate Struggle with Police Alleged Attempt to Shoot. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 4

Undeterred by the threat of a loaded revolver Sergeant Wood and Constable Dunk, of the Redfern Police Station, struggled with a powerfully built man in…

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Fracas at Harwood Axe and Tub Used Two Men Before Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 2

Robert McIntosh (45), a travelling cobbler, and Stephen Richardson (22) unemployed, and both strangers to the district, who were arrested and charged…

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Tram Employees Charged

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 2

Detective Lindsay Alford, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Alford, of Upper Orara, came into the limelight again this week through his detective work…

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No Permit To Carry Passengers Motor Lorry Driver Fined Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 4

At the Maclean Police Court yesterday before the Police Magistrate, the police proceeded against Arthur Moran for not being a holder of a permit to carry…

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Three Years Two "Go Getters" Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 7

Alleged to have promoted bogus company in Sydney and Melbourne, and described as "go-getters," Harold Ashworth, 51, and Henry Richard Roberts…

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P. & C. in Court Case

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 3

Halliday's Point Parents and Citizens' Association has been mixed up in a big court case at Taree, in which an ex-president, John Gordon, claimed…

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Hygienic Ideals Deputation To Minister Sterilisation of the Unfit Powers of Proposed Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 5

The questions of making it compulsory for persons to undergo an examination prior to marriage, creating a special court with power to…

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Aboriginal Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 2

At Darwin, before the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. E. Asche) and counsel for the defence, Mr. J. H. Harris, could argue whether there was a case to answer,…

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'Undue Influences' Equity Court Case Concerning a Will. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 7

Amazing allegations of undue influences were made in the Equity Cour tto-day when Amelia Park, 75, of Fairfield, applied for an injunction to restrain Esther…

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Shot Dead Bullet Through Heart "Chasing Wife with Axe" Man Charged with Murder. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 5

A man walked into the Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Cheltenham at 10 o'clock last night and, handing the sergeant in charge a [?]25 calibre…

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Child's Body Found Buried In Mud Mother Charged Wilful Murder Alleged Tragedy at Ipswich. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 5

The body of Anette Watkins, 6, was found lying in the muddy water of the Bremer River, near Basin Pocket, Ipswich, on Saturday. Within…

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