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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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To Be Disbanded? Communist Bodies Application to High Court Alleged Menace to Australia Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 5

The High Court sitting in Sydney, commencing on October 2, is likely to be a momentous one in the his tory of the Communist party of…

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Sir John Latham High Court Chief Justice Sir F. Gavan Duffy to Retire Judge Who Was Born in Leap Year. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 5

Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, who has been Chief Justice of the High Court since 1930, will tender his resignation to the Federal Attorney…

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Bailing Up Charge Two Men Sent to Gaol Judge Sheridan on Leniency. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 5

Convicted at the Darlirighurst Sessions to-day, on a 'charge of having while armed, bailed up a man and demanded his money. Clarence Reilly, 20, and Walter Kelso, 22,…

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Perth Murder Charge Thieves' Pun Described Carist Bros.' Shop Robbery Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 5

Stanley Thomas Flynn, 28, one of four men charged with the murder of Edgar Arthur Whitfield, caretaker, to-day described in the Criminal Court, a plot to…

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Harw00d Cases at Maclean Court on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 2

At the Maclean Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., Frederick George Green, for whom Mr. T. McL. Lobban appeared,…

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No Eavesdropping Police and Telephones Reply to Ex-commissioner. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 5

Replying to-day to criticism by the former New South Wales Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs), the Postmaster. General (Senator McLachlan) said he…

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'This Is the Gun' Murder Charge Evidence Widow's Statement Mrs. Lang for Trial. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 5

Mary Adelaide Lang was committed for trial, at Clermont Police Court to-day, on a charge of having wilfully murdered Phillip Henry Westacott,…

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Sale of a Hotel £100 Commission Awarded Lismore District Court. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 5

Stanley, James Williams claimed £16210, being commission on the sale of a hotel and other property from Arthur Henry Giggins, in the Lismore…

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Illegal Trapping Opossums Disappearing Sydney Police Alarmed? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 5

Disturbed at the alarming rate at which opossums are disappearing police office to-day conferred at the C.I.B. The Commissioner (Mr. Mackay), and…

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Hotel Hours Good Templars Protest Police Closing Policy. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 5

At the meeting of the Political Council of the International Order of Good Templars, many letters were received from branches protesting against the…

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Gunmen in Sydney Two Youths Held Up Robbed Near Police Station. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 1

Within 200 yards of the Balmain police station two youths were held up at revolver point to-night, and one of them was robbed of 9…

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Murder Charge Wife And Baby Dead Bodies in Kitchen Husband Before Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 5

Evidence was begun to-day in the case in which Clifford Earl Smiles, bus driver, of West Footscray, is charged with having murdered his…

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'CONTEMPTIBLE' Theft From Cemetery Marble Statue Taken From Child's Grave Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 4

"I think theft from a cemetery is the most contemptible imaginable, and if it were not that I desire to see the people who suffered by this offence…

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'Contempt of Court' Cable to Sydney Equity Court Proposed Sale of Trust Building. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 5

"This is an improper way of opposing a sale. It is of course, contempt of court,'' said Mr. Justice Long Innes, in the Equity Court to-day, when commenting on a…

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Died in Gaol Italian Awaiting Trial. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 3

The death occurred at Fremantle gaol to-day of Onofero Luceivero, 58, the Italian fish hawker, who, on August 2, was committed for trial on a charge of…

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Theft in Canada Japanese Secret Documents Recovered by Detectives. Quebec

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 5

Secrecy surrounds the theft of important Japanese naval papers from Licutenant-Commander Omae, of the Japanese Navy, who recently arrived…

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Not Guilty Warrnambool Jury's Verdict Intent to Murder Charge. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 5

Rupert McInnes, the well-known cross-country jockey, was tried at Warrnambool to-day on a charge of wounding John Gibson, with intent to murder…

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Loved Them Wife And Baby Dead Bodies Found in Kitchen Husband on Murder Charge. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 5

A passionate denial that he had murdered his wife and baby daughter was made in the Criminal Court to-day by Clifford Earl Smiles, 31, motor…

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To Apologise Witness Given 30 Seconds Called Barrister a Liar Never Been in Criminal Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 5

Judge Curlewis gave a witness 30 seconds to apologise when he called Mr, H. Hidden, barrister, in the District Court, a liar, this afternoon…

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Victorian M.l.a. and Police Methods

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 August 1935 · page 4

A protest, against the methods used by the police in a case heard at the Melbourne Children's Court was made recently in the Victorian Legislative…

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