Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,305 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 66

After Ten Years French Murder Solved? Popular Singer Killed Alleged Slayer Received £24. PARIS

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

After more than ten years the police claim to have solved one of the most baffling murders in French crime. In July, 1923, the body of the one time…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

N.Z. MURDER Unusual Interest Burnt Bone and Artificial Teeth Alleged Statements by Accused Auckland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

Statements that what appeared to be pieces of burnt bone end artificial teeth were found in the soil in accused's garden, were made by the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Prayer Book. Police Bargain Sale

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 3

Here is a nice umbrella! What am I offered for it? queried Acting Sergeant D. Brennan, as, with the air of a professional auctioneer, he conducted the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

'Absolute Lie' Police Letter Newcastle Councillors Agitated

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 3

"It is an absolute lie," was the assertion made by Alderman McLuckie when New Lambton Council received from the Police Department a letter stating that…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Motor Traffic Drivers Prosecuted Cases at Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 2

Harold Ernest Creighton pleaded guilty to a charge of having permitted his son, who was not the holder of a license, to drive a motor cycle in Wooli street,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Double Charges Drunkenness and Language Grafton Police Court Cases

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court, before Mr S. J. Bliss, P.M., yesterday, Frank Ernest McNamara, 49, was charged with having been found drunk in Prince street,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Armed with 'Knuckle Duster' Man Charged at Lismore. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 4

Lawrence Bernard Mellare, 24 a well-known footballer, was charged at Lismore Court to-day with being armed at Lismore on January 20, with [?]…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fines Total £475,000 French Court's Verdict Against Englishmen. Paris

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 5

Pines totalling £475,000 wore imposed on two Englishmen, Edward Bryce and Major Langton, for alleged banking offences in 1919, when they sold foreign…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Tumut Tragedy Murder And Suicide Verdict Mother and Child Drowned Husband's Story Allegations Against Another Man. Tumut

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 5

The inquest into the deaths of Mrs. Florence Martin and her twin child, Frederick, 18 months, whose bodies were recovered from the Tumut River…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Bank Bandits Hiding In Mountains 400 Police Are Searching Six Persons Killed. Basle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 5

Four hundred policemen assisted by an aeroplane are searching Jura mountains for two German desperadoes who, on January 1, entered a…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"A Fighting Man" Stranger Convicted and Sentenced. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1

At the Maclean Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. J. A. Letts and W. J. Rolph, J's.P., William Rivett, 19, a stranger, appeared on two charges of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

SENTENCED Girl In Boy's Clothes Charge of Vagrancy Unusual Case at Casino. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 5

Attired in a grey striped shirt, the sleeves of which were were rolled up to display a pair of well-tanned arms, a pair of patched grey sports…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Stavisky Scandals Police Heads Suspended. Paris

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 5

Wholesale dismissals and suspensions if police heads was agreed upon by the Chamber of Deputies to-day as a first step in the clean up of the Stavisky…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

A Modern Romeo Man's Mysterious Actions Police Patrol Finds Romance

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 3

The peculiar behavior of a man outside a Melbourne hospital on Friday night led to a police patrol's investigations, with surprising results…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Yanco Inquiry Punishment Left To Supt Boy Gives Evidence "Court-martial" and "Stations." Leeton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 5

A statement that no complaints had been received by him regarding the punishment meted out to the inmates of the Yanco Welfare Farm…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Opal Merchant Acquitted on Stealing Charge. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 5

At Clerkenwell Police Court to-day Frank Charles Lockwood, 29, opal merchant, formerly of Sydney, was charged with stealing 1655 opals from his…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Twelve Months Alleged Confidence Man Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

George McNamara, 40, who was described by the police as a confidence man, was sentenced to 12 month's' imprisonment, at the Central Police Court to-day,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Trespassing and Language Youth Charged. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 3

At the Coff's Harbor police station, a youthful bagman, Eric Wilson, aged 18, was fined £2, 3 costs in default five lays' hard labor for language and £1, in…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Gatekeeper Charged Result of Lorry and Train Smash. Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 5

Rachel Brodie, railway gatekeeper at Komungla, was committed for trial today on a charge of manslaughter arising out of the death of Leslie Arthur…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Film Scene Taken in Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 3

Considerable excitement was caused at the Darlinghurst; Sydney, Criminal Courts the other day when, during the hearing of a case in which Dr. Everard,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →