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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,305 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 66

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,…

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Suicide or Murder? Death of Voluntary Fireman Explosion at Fire Station. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 5

Conflicting views as to whether Ernest Carter, 42, committed suicide or was murdered were given to-day when the Coroner held an inquest…

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Grazier Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

The Moree police, together with Sergt. Willis, of Glen Innes, arrested Roy Cecil Phillips, at Moree on Friday afternoon, and charged him with having stolen one…

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Hen in Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

That the office of police magistrate in a country district is no sinecure was demonstrated at the Kempsey Police Court when Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M., was…

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Remanded Five Young Men Charged with Breaking and Entering

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 1

Before Messrs Pocock, and Gormly, Js.P., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday afternoon five young men. strangers to the district, were charged…

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Murder Charge Sequel to Man's Death. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 5

Arthur Henry Waring, 24, an ironworker, was charged at the Kogarah Court to-day with having murdered Charles Lawrence, who died at St…

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Fickle Woman Changes Her Weight a French Court Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

The assertion which has so often been sung that "La donna e mobile" has been exemplified in Paris in a novel form (says the "Daily Telegraph"). It provokes the…

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At St. Mary's Robberies Frustrated Police Arrest Two Men. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 5

Detectives frustrated a daring attempt by thieves to steal sacred and valuable articles from St. Mary's Basilica this morning…

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N. York Gaol 'Almost Unbelievable Conditions' Run by Prison Gang Pigeons Carry Drugs "Lawlessness, Crime and Laxity." New York

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 5

"Correction" officials' under the new city administration led detectives in a surprise raid to-day to the municipal penitentiary on Welfare…

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O'duffy's Case Military Tribunal Powers Appeal to Irish High Court. Dublin

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 5

The Attorney-General, Mr. C. McGuire, to day applied to the High Court for the removal with costs of a prohibitory order preventing the Irish Free State…

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Alleged Assault Story of Young Woman. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 5

Following a complaint by a young married woman that she had been kidnapped and assaulted by two men in a motor car, on Wednesday night, the police…

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Gaol Scandals More Revelations Home-brewed Beer Champion Stayer Away From Work. New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 5

Investigation into the Welfare Island penitentiary conditions continued to-day, with more appalling revelations which are likely to result…

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Girl Shot While Talking To Man Intent to Murder Charge Police Make Arrest in Bush. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 5

Following an argument with a young man with whom she had been keeping company, Margaret Emily May McNeill, 22, of Redfern, was attacked…

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Old Age Pensioner Macksville Assault Case Three Men Committed for Trial

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 4

At the Macksville Police Court before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., on Tuesday la[?] John Vincent Clegg, 33, James Dennis Joseph Goldwin, 33, and Norman, E[?]…

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Gaol Riot Frustrated by Governor Ringleaders Transferred to Other Gaols. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 4

A scheme by several dangerous confines to wreck working plant in Parramatta Gaol if greater freedom was not given them was defeated by the Governor…

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Coining Plant Found Raid by Toowoomba Police. Toowoomba

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 5

Plainclothes Constables Purcell and White, at Toowoomba, entered a small room and found a primus stove burning, and in a bowl a quantity of white metal…

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Stealing Electricity

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 4

Eric Dudley Williams, electrician, of 51 Bent street, Bentleigh, was presented before Cheltenham (Vic.) court on a charge of having "fraudulently used electricity."…

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A Fatal Shot Following Quarrel Brother on Murder Charge. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 5

Following the shooting of Henry George Vinecombe, 59, near Talbot, yesterday, after an altercation, William James Vinecombe, 57, of Woomelang, brother of the…

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Smart Police Work Alleged Theft of Motor Car Coff's Harbor Show Incident. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4

On Saturday night last, a man named Dale was arrested at Coff's Harbor and remanded to the next sitting of the police court, on a charge of stealing a motor car…

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Parramatta Gaol Report by the Governor Possible Troubles Averted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 5

The governor of the Parramattaa gaol, Mr. O'Connor, furnished a report to the Controller-General of Prisons, Mr. Hinchy, in regard to the secret trouble threatened…

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