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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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Missing Man Police Assist in Search. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 5

Two blacktrackers and six police recruits from the St. Kilda road depot have joined the search parties that are looking for Alexander Bell, 26, single, of Yarra…

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MUSSOLINI Plot To Assassinate Four Accused Charged Bomb Outrage at St. Peter's. Rome

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 5

An official admission of the existence of a plot for the assassination of Signor Mussolini is revealed by the announcement of the trial to…

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Knows Nothing Of God, Bible, Church Nine Years Old Boy "Sad Case,'' Said Magistrate. Warwick

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 5

A boy aged nine years who was called to give evidence in an action heard in Texas was rejected as a witness by Mr. P. G. Knyvett, P.M.,…

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BRITISH M.P. Invited To Murder Rasputin Sensational Evidence Rasputin Film Case. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 5

The court was electrified in the course of the Rasputin case when Mr. Locker-Lampson, P.C., M.P., declared that his acquaintance,…

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Police Hurt Fierce Struggle In Domain Communist Meeting Six Men Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 5

Five police officers were injured at the Domain to-day, when members of a protest meeting against the proposed Disloyal Organisations . Bill forcibly…

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Stealing From Wreck

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 3

Several charges of stealing were called at Macksville Police Court last week affecting the loss of goods from the wreck of the drogher "Dove,"…

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Local and General Alleged Theft

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

Two charges of theft were read against Mcrvyn Raymond Scholiz, aged 20, at Coffs Police Court yesterday morning, and he was remanded…

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Verdict for Plaintiff Small Debts Court Action

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

Before Mr. S. J. Bli[?]s, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday afternoon, W. J. Hawthorne and Sons sued Stephen Conroy Bellamy for the recovery of…

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Abduction Charge Logan Again Before Court Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 5

John Logan again appeared at Mt. Isa police court to-day, to answer a charge of abducting El[?]en Hooker. Another serious charge in connection with the girl was…

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Through the Grille Escape From Bellingen Lock-up Police Searching

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 4

Between 10 o'clock on Sunday night and 6 o'clock yesterday morning, a man under arrest escaped from the lock-up at Bellingen, and was still at large last…

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Good Results South Grafton P. And C.A. Annual Meeting Reports New Cricket Pitch and Tennis Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 7

The yeoman service rendered by the parents in the interests of children was stressed in reports tabled at the annual meeting of the South Grafton Parents and…

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Old Offender Convicted for Three Offences. Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 6

At the Ulmarra Police Court on Monday morning before Messrs. H. G. Greenaway and McGlinchey J 's.P., John Lawson pleaded guilty to being found drunk [?]…

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Hoaxing the Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 2

At Cheltenham (Vic.) Court, Albert F. Adams, 18 years, unemployed boot clicker, King street, Mentone, was charged with having, by means of certain false state…

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Sedition Trial Communist Clergyman Charged Toronto

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 5

Armed soldiers patrolled the Supreme Court area, at the opening of the sedition trial to-day, of Rev. A. E. Smith, a noted Communist, who is charged with stating…

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Man's Begging Letters Masquerading As a Woman "Contemptible." Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 6

Alleged to have described himself as [?] mother of ten" and to have obtained parcels of clothes which he later sold, Edward George Faversham, 36 years, waiter,…

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Three Chinese in Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 4

The sequel to a raid last week on a house in Devonshire street, Newcastle, by Sergeant Deane and Constables Goode and Dawes was the appearance at…

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"A Rotten Thing to Do" Judge Harsh on Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 2

Surprise was expressed by Mr. Justice Macrossan in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday in a case in which Ivan Edwards (23) was charged with uttering…

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Trundle Inquest Verdict of Murder and Suicide Evidence by Woman's Son. Trundle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 5

At the inquest into the deaths of James Wighton and Margaret Peeler, in a shed at the slaughteryards, on Saturday night, Jack Peeler, son of the woman, said…

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Woman Doctor Sentenced 25 Years for Murder. Chicago

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

At her second trial, Dr. Alice Wyne Loop, who is charged with having murdered her daughter-in-law, was found guilty to-day, and sent, need to 25 years…

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'Knowingly' in Possession of Skins Magistrate in Error. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

The Full Court reserved judgment today held that a company could "knowingly" have in its possession the skins of protected animals some months ago…

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