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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 39 of 65

Judge to Act Summons Against Magistrate Norfolk Island Case Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 5

Because a summons hail been issued against the Administrator of Norfolk Island (Captain. Pinney), who is the Chief Magistrate of the Territory, and…

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Jumped Off Bridge to Escape Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 4

When Allen Henry Simpson (19), was charged in the Casino Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., with trespassing on railway property…

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Short Shrift Police Warning to Speedsters Reducing Motor Accidents. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police, Mr, Maekay, speaking at the Royal Automobile Club dinner last night, declared that reckless motorists would be given…

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Timber Workers High Court Decision Power of Arbitration. Commissioner. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 5

The High Court to-day unanimously declared invalid an order made by Judge! Drake Brockman, of the Federal Arbitration Court, purporting to restrain the…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1935 · page 4

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., Walter James Williams (40), who admitted a charge of having been found drunk…

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Police Examination

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1935 · page 4

Six sergeants stationed at the Armidale police district sat for the sergeant first class examination at the courthouse this week. The examiner was Inspector J…

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Licensing Court, Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1935 · page 4

In the Licensing Court, Maclean on Thursday a license for an hotel booth for Lawrence races was granted to William Cliff…

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Bakers' Day Industrial Prosecutions at Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1935 · page 7

Before the Industrial Magistrate, Mr. S. J. Bliss, in the Industrial Court at Maclean on Thursday the proprietors and employees of Maclean's three bakery firms…

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Mining at Yamba Application to Warden's Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1935 · page 4

Application for suspension of labor conditions for a period of six months was made by William Henry Derrick, in the Warden's Court, Maclean, on Thursday…

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Don't Slap Your Wife Magistrate to Defendant. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1935 · page 5

Addressing a man Who admitted that he had Slapped his wife six or eight times because she occasionally slept at her mother's home, the North London…

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Salary Cuts French Civil Servants Clashes with Police. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1935 · page 5

Despite an official ban, civil servants were determined to hold a mass demonstration to-day, to protest against reductions in their pay, as a result of the…

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Five Dead Family Wiped Out Heaped Up Bodies Burned Bullet Wounds Suggest Murder Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1935 · page 5

An isolated dairy farm in the hills of Stoneleigh, four miles, from Pitts worth, was the scene of a ghastly tragedy, last night, when five persons…

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Royal Review 8000 Police On Parade Last of Silver Jubilee Event Without Precedent. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1935 · page 5

The last of the great Silver Jubilee Reviews was held in London today. It was the first Royal review of Britain's police, and the only…

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Saving Youth From The Folly Of Crime the New Experimental Adolescent Court Turn Young Lawbreakers Into Straight and Narrow Path

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1935 · page 1

While three young men were awaiting the electric chair in Sing Sing for murder, Magistrate William E. O'Dwyer was designated to sit in…

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Murder Charge Boundary Rider Dead. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1935 · page 8

The Commissioner of Police has been advised that Special Constable Finn, of of South Australia, has arrested Ruby Irene Lisaman, and charged her with…

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Queensland Tragedy Funeral of Victims Further Police Inquiries Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1935 · page 5

The funeral of the four victims of the recent tragedy took place at Pittsworth cemetery to-day. The charred remains of V. G. Hawkes,…

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Indian Riots Moslems Versus Hindus Police Arrest 1200. LAHORE

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1935 · page 5

Facing volleys of bricks and stones from the crowd, the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots fired three times on the Moslem rioters, killing several…

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Embezzlement Ex-cashier Sentenced. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 5

Leslie Maddock (29), a former [?] to the Hobart City Council, was sentenced to 18 month's imprisonment today on a charge of having embezzled…

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Murder Charge Three Children Drowned. Lindsay (Ontario)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 5

A charge of murder was laid against Mrs. Guy Wallace, wife of a wholly disabled, gassed, invalid war veteran, who placed five children on a log and pushed…

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Teacher Missing Police Conducting Search. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 5

After leaving Fair Bank Girls' Grammar School at Brighton, where she was a teacher, Elsie Ruglen disappeared and although the police have searched since…

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