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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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British Fascists Imitate Italian Methods Officials Charged with Assault Victim Made to Drink Castor Oil. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 5

William Symes, Arthur Mills and Albert Sharman, officials of the British Union of Fascists, were charged at the police court with having…

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£1019 in Tin Stolen From Stable Recovered by Police. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 5

A kerosene tin containing £1019, the life savings of Henry Baker, market gardener, of Cheltenham, was unearthed on Thursday night from a stable without…

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Pilliga Tragedy Murder Of G. W. Nott Bones Found in Safe Gruesome Discovery. Pilliga

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 5

The inquest on George W. Nott, the Pilliga stock and station agent, whose charred remains were found in the ashes of a fire near the…

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Romantic Story Told in Newcastle Court Once Secretary to the Princess

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 7

A man who once held the office of secretary to a Turkish Princess stood in the dock at Newcastle Quarter Sessions on Friday to answer three charges of…

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Domain Riot Seven Men Arrested Stone Strikes Police Sergeant Ugly Situation Tactfully Handled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 5

When police officers attempted to intervene at the protest meeting against the proposed Disloyal Organisations Bill, in the Domain, this…

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Letters in Pilliga Murder Police Search. Bubben Junction

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 5

It has been revealed that George Nott received threatening anonymous letters from a woman a few days before he disappeared. The police made a…

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Alleged Stealing "Stones From Railway"

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 3

At Coffs Harbour Police Court yesterday a young man named Edward James, Skeat was charged with stealing a quantity of stone, valued at…

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BLOODSTAINS Shirt And Waggonette Wagga Murder Case Evidence at Inquiry. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 5

Giving evidence at the inquiry which was resumed to-day into the death of Percy Edward Smith, Mrs. Susan Hannah Pearce, of Wagga,…

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SPENT £1000 at Races Rather Than Pay Debt Story in Bankruptcy Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 5

Although he owed the Bank of Australasia £2130 in respect of a guarantee given on his brother's banking account, William Thomas Beavis, of West…

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No Riots Hyde Park Demonstration Self-discipline and Restraint Unobtrusive Police Control Organisation Was Complete. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 5

Self-discipline and restraint were the outstanding features of the demonstration in Hyde Park to-day by hunger marchers from England, Wales…

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Ulmarra Police Court Drunkenness and Language

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 3

At the Ulmarra Police Court on Monday morning, before Messrs. H. G. Greenaway and R. Carlton, J's.P., James Vogee was charged with being found…

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Local Police Visit the Schools

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 4

Following the system adopted in metropolitan districts Sergeant A. Capp and Detective Constable A. J. Paterson yesterday visited all of the Grafton schools…

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"Greta Garbo" in Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 4

Betty Ross, alias Greta Garlio, 21, a blonde, appeared in the Brisbane Police on Saturday, charged with having sold liquor without a license at 54 Ivory street,…

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Obituary Mr. Justice James References in the Full Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 5

The death occurred this morning, after a short illness, of Mr. Justice James, of the Supreme Court. He had been in indifferent health for…

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League of Youth Free State High Court Case Question of Legality. Dublin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 5

On the ground that it was vexatious the court, to-day rejected the Attorney-General's..application for dismissal of the Blue Shirts leader, General O'Duffy's…

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Lismore Burglary Case

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 7

A further adjournment of the charges of breaking, entering and stealing in which Thomas McLaughlin (21), Allan Muter (23), and Harry Phillips (23) are…

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Wagga Murder Morey Committed for Trial "Man Cruelly Murdered." Wagga

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 4

Returning a verdict of murder against Edward Henry Morey, at, the inquiry into the death of Percy Smith, whose body was found in a bag in the Murrumbidgee…

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Afghan Murder Crime Played on His Mind Gav Himself Up. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 5

Mahomet Bux, who walked into Carnarvon police station recently and allegedly confessed to having killed an elderly Afghan, Abdullah, 15 years ago because…

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Disguised As Woman Suspect Evades Police for Eight Months. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 5

When Graham Chaplin, formerly a. public servant, was charged at the. Police Court yesterday with having, stolen £1680. the property of the King, the police…

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People's Prudential Assurance Co. Evidence in Bankruptcy Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 5

During the hearing of the application by Vivian Archibald Chandos Partridge, in the Bankruptcy Court, for a variation of the order which refused him a…

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