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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 41 of 65

Military Instruction for Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 4

Police from Ulmarra, South Grafton and Copmanhurst, in company with police at Grafton, yesterday afternoon attended a course of military instruction at…

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Perth Murder Case Intense Public Interest ''You Would Be Worried, Too." Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 5

Intense interest prevailed to-day, when the case in which Charles Silverman (44), Stanley Thomas Flynn (26), Cyril Brennan (27), and Matthew Walsh (23),…

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Plan To Rob Canberra Mails £10,000 Witness' Story In Court Duplicate Bag Visit to Queanbeyan. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 5

The trial of Harold Joseph Ryan, 34, of having stolen £10,000 the property of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia at Queanbeyan, on May 1,…

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Mail Robbery Joseph Ryan Charged Detectives All-night Vigil Police Commissioner Takes Part. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 5

How he and other detectives spent all night in the open and dug up money alleged to have been stolen from the Cooma mail was related at…

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Papers Stolen Burglary at Butter Factory. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 4

Although at the time of the discovery it was believed that not much had been touched in the offices of the Coff's Harbor butter factory, which were…

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Shop Betting £100 Fine Instead of Gaol 1309 Bets Taken. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 5

At Parramatta Quarter Sessions Appeal Court to-day Judge Barton fined William Johnson (23), hairdresser £100, in lieu of a sentence of three months' imprisonment…

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Perth Murder Woman's Alleged' Statement Four Men on Trial. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 5

A statement, alleged to have been made by Pearl Walters, containing an alleged account of the murder of Edgar Whitfield at Caris Brothers'…

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No Compensation Death Of Ernest Bird Lismore Widows Claim Fails Decision of Full Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 5

Ann Bird, of Lismore, appealed to the Full Court against the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission refusing her compensation…

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Murder Charge Four Men In Court Story of Jewel Robbery Accused's Alleged Statement Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 5

Detective O'Keefe, of Melbourne, was one of the witnesses for the prosecution to-day in the case in which Stanley Flynn, Cyril Brennan, Charles…

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A Bee in Court Prosecutor's Head Saved Solicitor Amazes Sergeant Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 5

Sergeant Phillipson, police, prosecutor, was amazed when he was struck over the head by a rolled-up paper by a solicitor while he was concentrating on…

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Police All Night Vigil

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 4

A third all-night police vigil was hel[?] last Wednesday night. All northern travelling traffic was stopped at the Clarence River bridge by Constables L…

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Five Years Gaol Sentence Upheld Attempted Robbery While Armed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 5

Dismissing the appeals of Lionel Edward Collins (17) and Cecil Christopher John Ellison (19) against a sentence of five years' imprisonment with hard…

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Murder Charge Italian Committed Woman Stabbed to Death. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 5

When the District Cor[?] Mr. Craig, held an[?] inquest to-day at Fremantle, on Angelina Re, the Italian, widow who died of stab wounds, on July…

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Prisoner Escapes In Aeroplane Posed As Prison Supt's Son . Daring Youth Took Taxi to Aerodrome After Walking Out of Gaol Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 5

Posing as the son of the superintendent of the prison, a youthful prisoner at Boggo road gaol, Arthur Charles Watson, made good his…

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Lived on Wheat Brothers Sent to Gaol Forcible Feeding Suggested Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1935 · page 5

The unusual expedient of sending two Macedonian brothers to goal for one month to save their lives was to-day adopted at the Perth Police Court. The men were…

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Hindu Mob Fired on by Police Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1935 · page 2

Five were killed, and 7 wounded, when police fired on a Hindu mob, who were attacking a Mohammedan Mosque, in the Champaran district of Bihar…

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Murder Charge Wife Before Court "Husband Died From Poison." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 5

On a charge of having feloniously and maliciously murdered her husband, Olive May Gibson (29), was remanded to-day. Police evidence was given that the…

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Manslaughter Twelve Years' Gaol. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 5

A sentence of 12 years' imprisonment, was imposed by Mr. Justice Macfarlan, in the Criminal Court to-day, on Alfred Charles Wright, 26, laborer, of west…

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Police Launch on Mudbank

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 4

Answering a call to Moscheto Island on Saturday, three members of Newcastle police force--Constables F. Gordon, S. McLeod and E. Konza--had a cold…

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Sitting Next Week Quarter Sessions and District Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 4

The Quarter Sessions and District Court will open at the Grafton Courthouse on Monday next at 11 a.m. before his Honor Judge Claney. It is officially…

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