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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 63 of 66

Constable for Trial Alleged Assault on Lubra. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 5

Constable Gordon Cameron Scott was committed for trial at the Darwin Police Court to-day on a charge of having assaulted a lubra named Dolly at Wearyan…

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Alabama Case Two Negroes Sentenced Appeals Lodged. New York

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 5

At Decatur (Alabama) a jury to-day convicted Clarence Norris, the second of seven negro youths to be convicted on charges of having criminally assaulted…

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Suspects for Trial Murder of Afghan King. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 5

Abdul Khaliq and several accomplices shortly will be placed on trial for the murder of the Afghan King, Nadir Shah. Police investigations, it is alleged…

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POINT 22 Pistols Police Ban on Imports. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 5

In future the New South Wales police will not sanction the indiscriminate importation of point 22 calibre pistols into the State. This announcement was made…

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Husband Shot Widow As Accessory Man on Murder Charge Melbourne Tragedy. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 5

Percy Horatio Barnard, 56, theatre commissionaire, and Mrs. Margaret Smith, 42, widow, were before Judge Wasley in the Criminal Court to-day…

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Petrol Supplies Police Raid on Service Stations Sensational Developments Expected. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 5

Using a dilapidated car and disguised as laborers a number of detectives conducted a series of raids upon 20 city and suburban petrol service stations and…

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Dangerous Driving Sydney Doctor Fined £81 London Police Court Case. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 5

A sentence of two mouths imprisonment and a fine of £81, with £21 costs, was imposed on Dr. John Rex Godsall, of Sydney, who complained that the…

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Tennis Court at Hospital

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 4

The Ex-Students Hockey Club have, in a nice sisterly way, joined hands with the Grafton Hospital nurses in an endeavor to raise funds to construct a…

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Triangle Again Fatal Shooting of Husband Wife Charged As Accessory. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 5

"I'll shoot the pair of you. I'll shoot [?] you first, and then I'll shoot the[?] missus afterwards." These words were used by Smith,…

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P.m. Welcomed at Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 3

When Mr. S. J. Bliss took his seat on the Bench at the Maclean Police Court for the first time on Thursday last, Mr. T. McL Lobban extended a welcome on…

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Mount Isa Company Wants Wages Cut Case Before Industrial Court. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 5

Applications by the Mount Isa mines for an all-round reduction of 7 a week in wages and safeguards against stoppages of work, were heard by the Full…

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Drew Revolvers Police in Brisbane Suburb Menaced by Crowd. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 5

When police raided premises in Paddington on Saturday and arrested a man for having gaming instruments in his possession the crowd became so menacing…

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Car Accident on Armidale Road Police Official and Wife Armidale

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 5

Superintendent Pattinson, of Sydney police, and his wife escaped serious injury when their car dashed over a 20ft. embankment at the side of the Grafton…

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Lawlor Will Pope Will Get £16,000 Widow's Share £8000 Result of Court's Judgment Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 5

It is estimated that the Pope will receive £16,000 from the estate of Patrick Lawlor, late of Alma road, Camberwell, as a result of the recent…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 7

Before local Justices at the Maclean Police Court on Saturday last, George Lawson Ward, a native of London, was charged with having used indecent…

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24 Years Gaol--and He Smiled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 5

Already sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude for having shot at a constable at Carlingford, with intent to…

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Murder Charge. Casino Man's Death Fight Follows Quarrel. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 5

A sequel to the fatal fight between two young men in Casino, on Saturday night, was the appearance to-day, in Casino court, of William Robert French, 20, on…

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N.T. Crimes Police Arrest Suspects Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 5

A message from Darwin reports that Constable Fitzer has despatched a brief telegram to the local Superintendent of Police, A. V. Stretton, reporting that he…

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Police Station Attacked Bombs Thrown on Roof. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 5

A terrorist attempt to wreck the central police station at Poona was made early his morning. Two bombs were thrown on the roof which was slightly…

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Verdict of Not Guilty Criminal Assault Charges Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 5

The case in which William Stephen Woods, 48, contractor, was charged with having criminally assaulted Olga Smith, 19, at his home near Trundle, on August 8…

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