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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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Inverloch Murder Motor Car Seen in Scrub. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

Important news that a motor vehicle was seen parked in the scrub on New Year's Day within a hundred yards of where Ethel Belshaw's body was found…

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Queensland Police No Wholesale Retirements. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

The report of wholesale retirements to take place in the Queensland police force was denied to-day by the Commissioner. Mr. Carroll, who said there would be no…

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Constable Shot Chasing Two Suspects Fugitives Escape Police Patrol Cars Searching. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

Constable John Simpson, 32, married, was critically wounded this afternoon, when he tried to intercept two suspects, as they were running along…

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Body in Creek the Tallarook Tragedy Man Charged at Seymour Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

At Seymour Court to-day, Charles Jeffrey Jones, 24, was remanded to Melbourne, on a charge of having murdered James Albert Ross, 23, at Tallarook…

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Shooting of Constable Active Measures by Police Search for Revolver. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 4

The condition of Constable Simpson, who was shot at Auburn yesterday, is still critical. A good description of the two men seen by a householder at the…

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Constable Shot Two Young Men Charged Alleged Intent to Murder. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1935 · page 5

George Brooks (20), laborer, and Roy Butler (21), painter, both of Richmond, were remanded until January 25, at the City Court to-day, on a charge of having…

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In Stolen Car Police and Suspects Given Lift Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1935 · page 3

After accepting a lift to the police station for himself and two men he had arrested. Constable Laycock later discovered that the car had been reported…

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Sudden Death Country Woman in Sydney Police Investigating. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1935 · page 5

Following the sudden death last night of Mrs. Adeline Amy Jones, 42, who collapsed while under an anaesthetic, at the home of a friend in Cremorne,…

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Near Panic U.S.A. Foreign Exchanges Prices Fall Sharply Court's Decision Feared Price of Gold. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1935 · page 5

A situation rapidly approaching panic stage on the foreign exchange markets was checked late to-day when the Federal Reserve Bank,…

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Prisoner Escaped From Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 3

Police and goal officials are searching for John Kingsley Clarkson, 24, who escaped from Cootamundra gaol early to-day…

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Train Jumpers Caught Ked-handed Charged with Trespassing

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 3

When a score of men tried to "jump" the youth Grafton-Casino goods train as it passed through Grafton at approximately 3 o'clock on Wednesday…

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Inverloch Murder Suspect Questioned. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 5

Suspected as the person responsible for the death of Ethel Belshaw, on New Year's Day, a man was questioned by detectives, at Inverloch, to-day, but gave…

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Police Raid Newspaper Darwin Communist Organ. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 3

With the sanction of the Administrator, Col. Waddell, the police to-day raided a shop in Darwin where the "Proletarian," the local organ of the…

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Written Words Preparations for Court Witnesses Were Surprised

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 2

When language is unspeakable, witnesses are allowed to write down the words and hand them to the Bench. But they must not be written down…

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Neighbors' Fued Trespass and Insulting Words Court Case From Woolgoolga

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 3

Litigants who have brought their troubles before the court on several occasions appeared at Coffs Harbour Court again last…

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Asked for the Lash Prisoner Sobs in Court Six Months for Indecency. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 5

The statement that he would prefer to take the lash rather than serve six months in gaol, was made by Herbert Harlow Janetzki (38), preacher and…

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Sentenced to Death Ringleader in Spanish Revolt. Madrid

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 5

Sergeant Vasquez, the ringleader of the recent revolt was to-day sentenced to death, and fined £1,400,000. This is the heaviest sentenced ever passed…

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Escapee Caught Car Bogged and Abandoned Sack to Cootamundra Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 5

The police early to-day captured John Kingsley Clarkson, who yesterday escaped from Cootamundra gaol, with the aid of an accomplice. Clarkson made his escape…

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Demand with Menace Haddon Sent to Gaol Said He Was Duke's Son London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 5

Clarence Gay Gordon Haddon who, in January last, was bound over for three years, was to-day sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for a breach of his bond,…

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Police to Be Punished Marseilles Assassination. Geneva

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 5

Claiming that now she had carried out the obligations laid down by the League, Hungary, in a memorandum report, undertakes to have police officials punished,…

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