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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

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Timber Theft Alleged Defendant Remanded on Bail

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 4

Edwards Reynolds, 36, was charged in the Grafton Police Court, before Mr. T. G. L. Flynn yesterday, with having stolen timber to the value of" £2, the…

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"Death Flies East" Plane Murder Mystery

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

The shroud of mystery that cloaks a murder in a speeding transcontinental plane provides the melodramatic theme of Columbia's new mystery…

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Murder Charge Two Young Men Sensational Evidence "Watch the Papers" Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 5

Evidence that Potter, who worked with him, told him to watch the papers, as there was a job coming off, and that he had a pal in…

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Henley's Standard Police Crew And Amateurism How Pearce Became Acceptable. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 5

In the event of the New South Wales police eight representing Australia at the Olympic games and desiring to compete in England en route…

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DEREGISTRATION Port Kembla Strikers Chance to Go to Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 5

After Mr. Evatt, K.C., had suggested that the men would accept his advice and "go to the Arbitration Court the Industrial Commission to-day adjourned…

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"I Am Innocent" Notts Murder Trial Woman Sentenced To Death Patient Left £1600 LONDON

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 5

"I aw innocent," declared Dorothea Nancy Waddingham (34), when, at Nottingham Assizes, to-day, she was sentenced to death, with a…

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Applauding in Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 4

A youth who was present at the sitting of the Wagga Police Court last Monday morning learned that the dignity of a Police Court is not to be…

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Alleged Gold Theft £1000 Involved At Orange Reduction of Bail Refused. SYDNEY,Friday

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 5

Mr. Sutherland, S.M., to-day refused an application for a reduction of the bail of £500 granted to Williarri Ernest Smith (35), when he appeared at the…

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Mareo Murder Motion for New Trial. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 5

Mareo's solicitor yesterday lodged a motion in the Auckland Supreme Court seeking leave to apply to the Court of Appeal for a new trial, on the grounds…

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Wrestling Police Stop Contest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 1

A non-stop wrestling bout between Tom Lurich and Hardy Kruskamp at Leichhardt Stadium on Saturday night did not last very long. Both men…

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5 Bullets in Body Man Shot Dead Accused's Alleged Confession Sensational Story at Inquest Coroner's Verdict of Murder Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 5

Finding that George Gidley King, 28, died on February 13 as the result of being shot by Lionel John Roberts, 17, Mr. A. H. MacTaggart, Coroner, today committed Roberts for trial on a charge of murder. King's body, with five bullet wounds in it, was found on February 14,…

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Factory Secretary Charged

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 2

At Macksville Police Court, last Friday, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., John Hayes Campbpll, accountant at. the Macksville Butter Factory lor 16…

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Fined for Assault Hit Woman With Chair Pens-oner in Court P.M.'s CAUTION

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 7

Annie Christina Eggins proceeded against Michael Sands, of Fry street, Grafton, in the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. Bliss, P.M.,…

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Woman Scared of Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 3

The hearing of a Supreme Court action was adjourned in Melbourne on Monday because the anxiety of the plaintiff, a woman of over 60 years, had…

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Murder Charge South Grafton Woman Bail Refused Inquest on

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 4

Charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered Vera Florence O'Connor, 27, who died suddenly in the Clarence House Private…

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REFUSED Special Leave To Appeal Rockhampton Murder Case. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 5

Although it criticised Mr. Justice Brennan's summing up at the trial and the Queensland Court of Criminal Appeal's reasons for dismissing the…

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Motor Tyre Subject Of Court Proceedings Action Fails Interesting Legal Argument

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 7

The W. H. Gurton Tire Company, Ltd., proceeded against George Raymond Dawes in the Grafton Small Debts Court yesterday before Mr. S…

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Timber Theft Defendant Discharged Under Section 556A

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1936 · page 7

Edward Reynolds, 36, appeared before Mr. Blisss, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday, charged with having, between February 12 and 26…

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Wife Murder One Hundred Witnesses Doctor on Trial. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1936 · page 5

The biggest murder trial in recent years began at Manchester Assizes with a surprise to-day when Dr. Buck Ruxton, who was recently…

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Motor Fees Payment of Traffic Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1936 · page 3

Motor vehicle owners who believed, that regulation fees were utilised for building and maintaining roads will be disillusioned by a statement made by…

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