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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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Lottery Prize Sequel In Court Winner Obtains Injunction Friend Minded the Money Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 5

The winner of the first prize in the State lottery in April, 1934, William Hill, gave a considerable amount of money into the custody of a friend,…

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Traffic Cases Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 3

At the Ulmarra Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., Neil Kenneth Rattan, 19, pleaded guilty to the charge of having driven a…

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Not Reported to Police Alleged Murder of Blacks Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 5

Questioned to-day, regarding the statement of Mr. I. Lovick, of the Mount Margaret Mission, that a white prospector had killed three aborigines in the Warburton…

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Why Police Go Bandy

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 4

If ever you see a bandy policeman, look not upon him as a victim of parental neglect, nor as an advanced infant, who had been too eager to walk. Blame the…

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Dog As Court Exhibit

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 1

An unusual exhibit was a blue cattle dog, at Kyogle Police Court on Wednesday morning. The case was one in which Alfred George Sullivan, a laborer, residing at…

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Happy in Gaol Murderess Puts on Weight Not Likely to Die. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 5

Although she is under sentence of death for having drowned her baby in the Yarra, Marry Alice Clara Stevens, who is in Pentridge Gaol, has put on nearly a…

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Shots Fired Attempted Murder Charge Alleged Housebreakers Disturbed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 5

There was a sensational shooting affair at Mudgee at midnight on Friday, when Mr. Steven Malone, a well-known auctioneer, on going to assist in the search…

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Motor Vehicles Police Have Power to Seize Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 1

The Executive Council has approved a new regulation which will empower members of the police to seize motor vehicles. It provides that the police may seize…

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Executed in Street Murder of American Missionaries Late Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stam

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 8

The first detailed information has just reached Australia regarding the murder by members of the Chinese Communist army of Mr. and. Mrs. J. C. Stam, two…

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Three Days' Bride Story in Divorce Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 7

A curious story was told by Harold Fitzgerald in the Divorce Court to-day, when he was granted a decree nisi for divorce against Martha Fitzgerald, on the…

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Illegal Impounding P.m. Upholds Complaint Ulmarra Court Case

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 6

At the Ulmarra Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., on wednesday, William Murray Matheson was charged with having impounded 11 head…

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Irish Claimants to Australian's Fortune Court Inquiry in Ireland. Dublin

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 5

The High Court, at the request of the Public Trustee of New South Wales, has ordered an inquiry at Portumna, County Galway, to take the evidence of 25…

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Shell Depot Theft Arrested Man Discharged Police Offer No Evidence

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 2

William Kelindienst, 26, of Grafton, was charged before Mr. Bliss, P.M., at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with having on or about March 26…

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Assault on Train

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 2

An assault on a policeman in plain clothes on the Kempsey mail train on April 1 between Maitland and Dungog cost Frederick Kitchener,…

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General News Mean Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 7

A contemptible theft was committed late on Thursday afternoon in the Newcastle district in the excitement of an accident. Two cyclists collided on the…

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Stealing Charge Government Works Tools Defendant Discharged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 8

Michael Edward Walker, 55, of Grafton, was charged before Mr. Bliss, P.M., at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with having stolen during…

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Murder Charge Inverloch Tragedy. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 7

At the city watchhouse to-night, a 19-years-old youth of Glen Huntley, was charged with the murder of Ethel Belshaw, whose body was found…

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Street Assault Baker's Attack On Carter Injury to Custom and Goodwill Defence Urges Severe Provocation

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 3

After working amicably together for 14 years, a local baker and his carter fell out with each other when the latter was dismissed from the…

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LEFT £2500 Man Who Received Charitable Aid Police Discovery. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 5

Although William Henry Good, [?] grocer, who was fatally injured when knocked down by a car on Saturday had lived as a poverty-stricken man for some…

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Quashed by High Court Conviction Against Gerald Griffin. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 5

The conviction of Gerald Griffin as a prohibited immigrant was to-day quashed by the High Court. All the costs in the present case and those before the…

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