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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 51 of 65

Police Vigil

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 4

Police who conducted an all-night traffic vigil at both ends of the Clarence River Bridge on Thursday had to face the bleak, rainy weather. They were…

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'I Shot Him' Woman On Murder Charge "Molested in Bedroom" Surrendered to Police. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 5

At Clermont to-day, before Mr. Justice Brennan, and a jury, Mary Adelaide Lang (24), a married woman, was charged with the wilful…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing Glen Innes Grazier's Appeal Fails

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 2

Before His Honor, Judge Claney, at the Glen Innes Court of Quarter Sessions on Tuesday night Charles Fitzroy Bayly appealed against his conviction of stealing…

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'I Am Innocent' Father Sentenced for Manslaughter Wife and Child Dead. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 5

"I am not guilty. I am innocent." sobbed Clifford Smiles (31), motor mechanic, in the Criminal Court to-day, when he was sentenced by Mr. Justice…

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Workers' Compensation Court Payment to Widow. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 5

Before Commissioner Halliday, at the Workers' Compansation Court yesterday, Eugenie May Fuller, of Grafton, applied for an order directing payment out to…

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Peer Sentenced Charge of Forgery. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 5

Lord Edward Montagu was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for forging Mrs. Vanderelst's signature to a cheque while acting as her secretary…

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Wairuna's Crew Released From Vancouver Gaol. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 5

The Wairuna's crew were released from the city gaol and returned to the ship, pending a decision on Monday by Magistrate Matheson, on charges of…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 4

There was no appearance of Norman Robert Coates at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., to answer a charge of having been…

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Land Valuation Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 4

A silting of the Land Valuation Court, before a Supreme Court Judge, Mr. Justice Pike, will be held at the Grafton Courthouse on October 14, at 2 p.m…

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Italian Footballers Deserted Team to Avoid Conscription Wives Charged--fortunes Confiscated. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph" Ventimiglia (Italy) correspondent says though the Argentine-Italian, footballers, Guaita, Scopelli and Stagnate, successfully fled…

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MUSICIAN Wife Murder Alleged Daughter's Evidence Trial in Auckland. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 5

Police court proceedings were begun at Auckland to-day, in the case in which Eric Mareo, a well-known New Zealand musician and conductor,…

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Crashed Into Car Motor Cyclist Fatally Injured Car Driver Charged with Manslaughter. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 5

Leslie Stanton, 17, of Marrickville, was fatally injured, and John Reginald Bruce, 17, of Marrickville, suffered serious injuries, when a motor cycle…

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Safeblowing Charges in Lismore Court Accused Remanded to Casino. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 5

Arising out of the blowing of a safe in a Casino butcher's shop recently and the alleged attempts to burgle other premises, James Hely,…

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Taxi Murder Government Offers £200 Reward. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 5

A reward bf £200 has been offered by the Government for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man who murdered James…

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EX-PRISONER. Becomes Colonial Secretary. Entertains Justice Who Sent Him to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 3

It is given to a few men to be so rehabilitated in public estimation that they can officially entertain those who, in earlier years, committed them to…

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S.A. HORROR Farmhand On Murder Charge Farmer and Family Dead Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 5

Arthur Nelson Durrant, 22, farmhand, formerly employed by Hugh Forbes, whose body, with that of his wife and his 16 years old daughter…

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Judge's Comment Securing Accused's Statement Police Methods Criticised. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 1

The trial began at Ipswich to-day, before Mr. Justice Henchman and jury of Reginald Felix Scott, 22, on a charge of having murdered his stepfather, Ora…

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Love Leads to Gaol. The Mannequin and the Coiner. He Made Enough to Prevent Starvation. London, September 14

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 7

A few hours after she had left the dock of the Old Bailey, Miss Grace Cecilia Edwards, twentynine year old mannequin, told the…

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Gang Murder Fresh New York Horror Two Racketeers Shot Dead Three Murderers Escape. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 5

A gangster, murder, closely approaching in horror the method of the infamous Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago, in 1925, occurred…

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Murder Charge Veronal Poisoning Suspected Husband in the Dock a Glass of Hot Milk. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 5

At the continuation of the hearing of the charge of murder against Eric Mareo, at Auckland Police Court to-day, Freda Stark, who…

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