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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

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Youth of 17 Charged with Murder Grazier's Body In Well Wagga Tragedy Wagga

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

Roy Malcolm Soutar, 17, who was detained yesterday following the discovery of the body of Christopher James Bolger, 22, grazier, on…

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Police Inquiries a Stolen Motor Car

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 4

The police at Grafton were making inquiries yesterday concerning a motor car which was reported as having been stolen from near the 16-mile peg on…

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Child Murdered Strangled in Bush Man's Alleged Confession Victorian Murder Charge Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

Arnold Sodeman (35), of Leongatha, was committed for trial on a charge of murder, when the District Coroner (Mr. D. Wilkins), conducted…

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Seamen Defy State Court to Finish Fight to Be Waged Johnson's Letter Put in Waste Paper Basket Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

An unexpected development in the shipping strike occurred to-day when the monthly meeting of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union, by an…

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Bank Entered Two Men Charged Constable's Evidence. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 4

Robert Menzies (36), miner, and Robert Sorbie (29), miner, were charged at Collinsville (North Queensland) Police court, to-day, with…

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Savage Assault Wharf Laborer Battered Stripped and Kicked. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 4

Alfred Worms, wharf laborer, was found in Sidely street, near the Sailors' Home, this afternoon, unconscious. He was naked and had…

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Wagga Murder Youth Remanded for Week. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 4

When Roy Malcolm Soutar, 17, appeared at Wagga Police Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Christopher James Bolger, at Mt…

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The Lindberghs Arrival In England Strong Police Guards. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5

Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh have arrived in England and will stay a week at Cardiff with John Llewellyn Morgan, whose late daughter-in-law…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4

Andrea Chapin (38), described as a street musician, was charged before Mr. T. G. Flynn, J.P., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, with…

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Fireworks in Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

There were real fireworks in Grimsby County Police Court recently, says an English newspaper. A Cleethorpes woman appeared on a summons…

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£800 Bail Melbourne Murder Charge. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4

The Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Mann, to-day heard and granted an application for bail on behalf of Lachlan McLachlan, a former police…

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Police Changes Districts Reorganised Supt. Toohill Transferred N.C. District Abolished

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4

Superintendent D. C. Toohill, who has been in charge of the North Coast police district, with headquarters at Grafton, for the last, 22…

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The Motor World News And Notes From The N.R.M.A. Women As Traffic Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

In Chickasha, Oklahoma, twenty-two women on the relief rolls have been appointed as traffic police. Waving red flags, they direct traffic from roads…

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Killed by Train Man Charged with Blackmail. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 5

Walter Dick (42), photographer, jumped in front of an oncoming train at Bowden to-day and was killed immediately…

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Seized by Police Bookmakers Books at Races

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 2

There was a sensation at the Gilgandra races when the police, headed by Det.-Const. G. E. Frankish, seized the books of eight bookmakers. The…

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Murder Charge Two Men Remanded St. Leonard's Tragedy. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 5

Bail was refused James Richard Geddes (23), and Reginald Davies (40) when they were remanded at North Sydney Police Court to-day on charges…

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Police Changes Country Divisions Grafton Area Eliminated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 5

To provide for greater efficiency, and to eliminate the friction which had occurred in the past through the, overlapping of areas, the Commissioner of…

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Judge Lindsay Reinstated in Colorado Bar Founder of Denver Juvenile Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 2

On his sixty-sixth birthday, November 25. Superior Court Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, of Los Angeles, the round-faced. spectacled, nationally…

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Man Imprisoned for Theft of Money

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 4

A sentence of one month's hard labor in Grafton gaol was imposed on George Frederick Newson, in Bangalow court on Friday on a charge of…

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Stole Money Paid Fine With It Daring Theft in Watch-house

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 2

The story of bow a man committed an audacious theft in the City Watchhouse was related in the Brisbane Police Court on Thursday…

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