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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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Drug Trade Australian Woman Charged Heroin, Cocaine, Opium Sensational Revelations. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 5

One of the most sensational cases in Shanghai's criminal history was opened at the British Court to-day, with the charging of Mrs. Victor V…

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Scrub Murder Seven Detectives on Case Description of Suspect. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 5

Seven detectives and two senior constables to-day commenced work on a new plan, in an effort to locate the murderer of Ethel Belshaw, aged 12, whose body…

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Unhappy Homes Marital Court Proposed Hearing in Private

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

Two important moves in relation to the laws relating to marital problem were revealed in England recently. Lord Merrivale, former president of the…

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Albury Murder Clue From London Investigations in N.Z. Markings on Towel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 4

Detectives engaged on the Albury pyjama girl murder are investigating a report from Scotland Yard that a business man in London had…

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QUESTIONED Youths From Wonthaggi Scrub Murder Case Thousand Persons Interviewed Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 5

Information disclosed by the Government Pathologist, Dr. Mollison, now fixes the death of Ethel Belshaw, 12, victim of the Inverloch tragedy,…

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Farmhand Poisoned Was to Have Appeared in Court Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 5

Ronald William Holt, 45, unemployed farmhand, who was to have appeared at Camberwell Court to-day on a charge of indecency, climbed a ladder at his home…

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Duke in N.Z. Armed Police on Royal Train Unemployed Deplore Expense of Tour. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 5

During the Duke of Gloucester's tour to Dunedin to-day the Royal train stopped at Timaru and Camaru, both farming centres…

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Duke's Fag Sequel In Court Claim for £100 Damages Fireman and Mayor. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 5

There was a sequel to the incident at the civic ball at Toowoomba when a fireman asked the Duke of Gloucester to put out his cigarette when…

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[?]Police Court [?]Ee Order. [?]Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 2

[?]Police Court yesterday [?]Farrington, P.M., W. [?]for whom Mr. W. B. Fleming app[?]red, sued L. D. Eggins for the sum…

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Maclean Police Court Failed to Return Number Plate

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

At the Maclean Police Court on Thursday, before the P.M. (Mr. Farrington), E.J. May was charged that he did not return a number plate of a motor vehicle…

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Mythical Fortune Earns Four Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 4

A woman's story of a mythical fortune in England induced a business man and several other residents of Gympie to advance sums, aggregating between £30 and…

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Another Dreyfus Case? Captain Charged with Treachery Witness Admits Forgery. Paris

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 5

The case of Captain Froge, who was heavily sentenced last month, on charges of having betrayed military plans to a foreign Power, now appears to be…

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Embezzlement Charge Bank Manager Collapses Court at Bedside. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 5

On the verge of collapse Francis Edmund Power, bank manager, of Barmera, yesterday allegedly told an Adelaide solicitor that certain money had been…

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Prank Leads to Police Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 4

At the Kyogle Police Court Archie Neil Boyle pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing six axe handles, the property of Phillip Newton, between November…

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Colored Man on Stealing Charge 46 Previous Convictions

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 3

Arthur Gayton, 61 years of age, a colored man, pleaded guilty to having stolen 11/2 and a purse valued at 13/2 when charged at the Grafton Police Court…

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Queensland Police Many Retirements Likely Efficiency Campaign. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 3

Police retirements on a wholesale scale are likely to take place immediately. "This is a move to improve the efficiency of the police force." said the…

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Albury Murder Wanted Man Tracked Down Detectives' Long Search Suspect Proves Alibi. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 5

After weeks of intensive work on one of the most likely clues that detectives engaged on the Albury murder have yet received a man was…

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Inverloch Mulder Police Questioning 8000 Visitors Many Letters Received. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 5

Detectives investigating the murder of Ethel Belshaw (12), of Tarwin Meadows, at Inverloch, on New Year's Day, are still working at top pressure in their…

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U.S. Gold Clause Court Case Repercussions Brokers Mystified. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 5

The seeming dubiousness, with which the Supreme Court Justices received the Government's arguments that President Roosevelt's gold devaluation policy…

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Youth Bound Over Alleged Theft of Money South Grafton Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 2

Charged with having stolen the sum of £7/12/6, money belonging to William John Hodge, from the dwelling house of Lilian Mary Exton, South Grafton, on December…

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