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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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Heavy Fines Chinese Opium Smokers Sydney Police Raid. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 5

Chinese occupants of a Sussex street opium den went to great lengths to prevent a surprise by a police raid, but they failed and several Chinese appeared…

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Murder Trial Overshadows Stavisky Inquiry Frenchwoman in Dock Another Amazing Paris Case. Paris

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 March 1934 · page 5

Germaine Huot, 45, who at the age of 16 left a convent to become mistress of a succession of millionaires and titled and prominent men,…

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Extra Six Months' Gaol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 1

Breaking out of Bellingen lock-up proved a bad business for Gordon Frederick Hunt (27). Apart from the hardship he suffered after getting ou[?]…

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Two Years. Frenchwoman Sentenced Prefect's Death. Parts

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 5

German Hnet was found guilty in connection with the death of Jean Causeret, Prefect du Rhone, and sentenced" to two years imprisonment…

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Sheep Stealing Charge. Mother and Two Sons for Trial Cobar

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 5

Mrs. Simpson, a grazier, and her two sons were committed for trial on a charge of having stolen 274 sheep from an adjoining property. It was alleged…

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Religious Rioting. Indian Magistrate Killed Propitiation to Smallpox Goddess, Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 5

Fierce religious rioting at Veersingapet in South India last night resulted in the death of an Indian Magistrate and serious injuries to an Indian police, in…

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BANNED. Foreign Lotteries Drastic British Legislation. Fine, Then Gaol. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 5

The new Betting aud Lotteries Bill, which was read a first time in the House of Lords this evening, deals in a drastic manner with lotteries…

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News of the World the Prince Murder. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 5

Significance is attached to the police questioning throughout the night three men in connection with the murder of Judge Prince. One of the men, known as…

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SENTENCES Found Guilty Of Arson Two Men Sent to Gaol the Back Creek Fire Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 6

Yesterday morning, at the Grafton Quarter Sessions, the two men, Cecil Harold Eggins and Victor Roy Copas, who had been found guilty on the previous…

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Compensation Claim County Council Line District Court Proceedings

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 2

His Honor Judge Clancy, in the Grafton District Court yesterday, was concerned with questions arising in connection with a claim against the Clarence…

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Moratorium Act Judgment Debt Applications District Court Proceedings

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 2

His Honor, Judge Clancy, in the Grafton District Court yesterday, heard several applications under the provisions of the Moratorium Act. in respect of…

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Woman Fined for Assault

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1934 · page 4

John Thurles Cahill, of Devon street, Wooloowin, alleged; before Mr. H. L. Archdall, C.P.M., at Brisbane Police Court, that Hilda Hough, housewife, of…

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Expected Police Warning

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1934 · page 4

The remarkable statement that he expected the police to warn him before they took action was made by Patrick McDonnell at the Armidale Police Court, on…

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Police Want Help to Identify Reckless Motor Drivers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1934 · page 5

Any person who drives a motor vehicle negligently, furiously or recklessly, or at a speed deemed dangerous, commits a breach of the Act, says the Commissioner…

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Price Fixing Upheld by U.S. Federal Court New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1934 · page 5

The Federal Court yesterday upheld the price fixing N.R.A. code as constitutional which is another important step in the judicial interpretation of the recovery…

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Alleged Theft of Engine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 4

Advice was received in Tweed Heads on Thursday afternoon that the Brisbane police had arrested two men in Brisbane in connection with the theft of…

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Murder Charge Follows Brawl Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 5

Following the death of William Shean during a brawl near Wyndham on Good Friday Peter Andrew Parker has been charged with murder [?]…

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Murders By Bandits Six Shot Amazing Hold-up Brutal Methods Employed What the Police Discovered. Bremerton (U.s.a.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 5

Six persons were murdered by bandits at the home of a wealthy retired grocer, Frank Fleider, at Earlin Point near here. Their bodies…

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Alleged Theft of Money and Masonic Apron

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 4

Roy Kelvin Manning, 25, pastrycook, was last week remanded for 'eight days on a charge that on March 25, at Brisbane, he stole, with actual violence, from…

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Pilliga Murder Trial Opens To-day. Narrabri

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 5

The trial commences at Narrabri to-morrow, of Mrs. Annie Richards, on a charge of having murdered George Nott, at Pilliga…

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