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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 49 of 65

Revision Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., a court was held for the revision of the rolls of electors of the South Grafton…

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Alleged Attempt to Escape Charge of Assisting Prisoners Accused at Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 3

Before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning Marcel Laffiner (29) appeared on remand to answer a charge of having at…

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Valueless Cheques 273 Dishonored Father, Mother and Son Sentenced. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 5

Father, mother and son were sentenced to imprisonment at the General Sessions to-day. They were Alfred Darroch (50), traveller; his wife, Hannah Louisa Dar…

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Bail Refused Intent to Murder Charge Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 5

Bail was refused Frank Howard Jones, 20, laborer, when he appeared at Burwood Court to-day, on a charge of shooting at and wounding Allen Clarke, at North…

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A Lively Scene Police Have Hard Fight Train Passengers Arrested

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 2

Although 50 or 60 people were on Coffs Harbour railway platform on Sunday night while the Brisbane Express was in, not one…

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Men and Girl Questioned by Police Leave Train at Coff's. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 4

On receipt of a message from Brisbane police shortly before the arrival of the Brisbane Sydney express at Coff's Harbor last night, Constables L. Ulrick and A…

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Police Methods Criticised

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 4

A message from Yass states that the Goodradigbee Shire Council decided to protest to the Chief Secretary's Department against the practice of police…

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Conspiracy Case Parents and Son Sent to Gaol Valueless Cheques. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 5

In the Darroch conspiracy case, Alfred Danoch was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, his wife to six months, and his son to two years…

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Old Crime Recalled Murchison Murder Mystery Finding of Human Skull. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 5

Detective Sergeant Manning left for Mt. Magnet to-night, to try to solve the mystery surrounding the finding of a human skull near the 160-mile peg on the…

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Funeral Pyre Mystery Police Search for Clue. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 4

Further attempts were made to-day to ascertain the identity of the body found in the funeral pyre, at National Park, yesterday, but the only…

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'Black-out' Caused Wire Thrown Across Mains Police Investigating. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 8

When the whole of the Nymboida electricity system in the area south of the Raleigh sub-station was cut off from 8.20 to 10 o'clock the other night, an…

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Car Disappeared Police Constable Solves Mystery Taken in Mistake to Garage

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 4

Parking a car outside the Commercial Bank of Sydney, in Fitzroy street, yesterday morning, Mr. Sam Barnier, of Coaldale, returned before noon to…

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Second Trial Wife Murder Alleged Husband Denies Guilt. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 5

Clifford Earl Smiles, 31, presented a pitiful figure in the witness box at the Criminal Court to-day when the retrial of a charge of having murdered…

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Damaged with Pea-rifle Sanitary Equipment Police and Council Active

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 4

Recently a number of boys, who were at large on the South Grafton Council's sanitary depot, off the Ulmarra road, found the sanitary pans an irresistible…

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DETAINED Girl Bound For Adelaide Stopped at Coff's Harbor Companions Attack Police. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 2

Following an exciting battle with two police, who prevented their entering a car in which they were escorting a girl from Brisbane to…

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FINED £5 Assault on Police Defendants Express Regret

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 1

At Coffs Harbour Po[?] Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. O. J. Lake and C. Wallter, J's.P., Neil Frederick Carlisle (23) and Lesile Kitchener…

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Grafton Police Court Charges of Drunkenness

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 3

Harry Norton, or James Henry Norton, or Harry Piercy, was charged before Mr. G. L. Berry, J.P., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday, with having been found…

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Trouble Over Boots Story Told in Dorrigo Court Man Convicted of Theft and Fined

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 3

At the Dorrigo Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., a man named William Ellem was charged with having stolen a pair of…

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Flat Murder Death Sentence Passed. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 5

Allan James Grierson was to-day sentenced to death on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Louise. Bertha Gann, housekeeper, at a flat in Regent's Park…

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Coffs Police Application for Increase

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 5

A letter received at the Shire Council meeting on Wednesday from the Chief Secretary's Department, through Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., in…

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