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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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Is It Murder? Burnt Bones Found May Be Human Remains. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 5

The discovery of a small handful of burnt bone chips and teeth on the edge of a lagoon about 15 miles out of Wagga have led to an intensive police…

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Threat to Shoot Father Bound Over "Lined Family Against Wall" Allegations in Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 5

The allegation he had threatened to line the members of his family against the wall and shoot them was made in the Central Court to-day…

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'Not to Get Fat' Forced To Chop Wood 'Iron Herself to Reduce' Story in Divorce Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 March 1935 · page 5

An extraordinary story was told by Dorothy May Knight in the Divorce Court to-day when she successfully applied for the dissolution of her marriage with…

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Released From Gaol Woman Who Was Sentenced to Death. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 5

Mrs. May Brownhill, who was sentenced to death at Leeds in November for the murder of her 30-year-old imbecile son, and was later granted a reprieve, has…

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They 'Jumped' All Right 17 Train-jumpers Escape Police Three Charged at Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 3

Louis Bruno (22), Leonard Urquhart (21) and George Knudsen (24), were each fined 20/, in default two days imprisonment with hard labor, for…

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In Side Fugitive Shoots Constable Strong Police Guard at Parramatta Court Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 4

Bloodstained clothing, rifles, tools, merchandise and other articles littered the floor of Parramatta Court to-day, when James Lucas, 46, and Richard…

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Hotel Defaulter Sent to Gaol 18 Days Hard Labor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 3

Allan Williams was charged at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., with not having paid a reasonable sum of…

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£2000 Missing Company Manager Charged Embezzlement Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 5

Alleged to have admitted embezzling £2000 from Sandford, Ltd., while in the company's service, Edgar Hartley McCall, 36, company manager, at the Central…

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Told Same Story Man on Stealing Charge One Month's Hard Labor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

"You told me the same story last week," stud the Police Magistrate, Mr. S. J. Bliss, to Al. Neilson as he sentenced the accused to a month's imprisonment…

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Found Drunk Charges at Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 3

At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., yesterday, Micheal Finnegan, 42, pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found drunk in…

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Shock for Police Old, Poorly Dressed Woman Worth Thousands. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 4

When police searched an elderly woman, who allegedly had been sleeping on the cobble stones of St. Andrew's Place and beneath the Druitt street…

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Vic. Clergyman To Be Charged By Archbishop the Birth of Christ Bring Counsel From Eng. Talk of Appeal to King. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 1

Intimation that action would be taken against him under the Ecclesiastical Offences Act, for his recent writings on the birth of Christ, has…

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Boy Witness 'I Was Frightened' Told Solicitor a Lie Case in Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 2

Fair-haired and blue-eyed, Reginald Elks, 11 years of age, presented a pathetic picture to a crowded gallery, which included a number of women, at…

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Gang Murders Three In New York "Suppressing Evidence" Police Make Anti-crime Drive. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 5

On the eve of a Grand Jury investigation of vice, gambling and racketeering in New York City, gangsters murdered three men to-day,…

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Time and Place Where Children Are No Place for Bad Language Grafton Court Cases

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 6

"There is a time and place for everything, and where young children are is no place for the use of bad language," said Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., at the Grafton…

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'Revolting' Murder of Wife Husband Commits Suicide. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 5

A verdict of murder and suicide was returned by the City Coroner to-day, at the conclusion of evidence concerning the deaths of Victor Wilbow, who was found…

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Murder Attempt Poison in Porridge Life Imprisonment for Youth. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 5

Found guilty of having attempted to cause poison to be taken by Cecil Ulrich, with intent to murder, Leslie Keene, 18, was sentenced by Judgo Neild to penal…

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Misappropriation Casino Contractor Charged at Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 March 1935 · page 4

Frederick George Burke, (40) was charged at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., with having on March 2…

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'I Don't Like Murder' Wounding Constable Alleged Committal for Trial. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 March 1935 · page 4

On a charge of having feloniously wounded Constable Arthurson at Bargo, on January 6, with intent to murder, James Lucas, 46, was committed for trial…

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Abduction Charge Young Man in Court Case Remanded

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 March 1935 · page 4

Warner Sheridan (25) was charged at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with having taken Lila Violet Green, a female, under the age of 21,…

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