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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

1,247 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 21 of 63

Maclean Licensing Court Yamba Hotel Water Supply

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 6

In connection with the matter of water supply for the Hotel Pacific, Yamba, which was again before the Maclean Licensing Court on Thursday…

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"Pistols Useless" Complaint By Police Better Weapons Wanted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 4

The automatic pistols supplied to members of the police force are, in the opinion of some delegates attending the annual conference of the New…

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Scotching the Bagpipes Court Imposes a "Close Season." London, April 4

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 8

Upholding the Sassenach view that one man's bagpipes is another man's poison the magistrates at Birkenhead imposed "a close season" on unsolicited…

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Shop Entered Man Charged at Bowraville

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 4

At Bowraville on a recent Sunday morning, Mr. Harry Bellis reported to Sergeant Windsor that his shop had been broken into on the previous night…

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Ten Years' Gaol Man Who Kicked Wife. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 4

Having successfully appealed against his previous conviction and a sentence imposed on him, Victor Marshall Pomfrey (38), was sentenced to ten years…

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Betting Inquiry Magistrate As Witness Solicitor Gives Evidence Commission Sits at Hospital. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 7

Following representations by counsel, the Starting Price Royal Commission adjourned to the Randwick Military Hospital to take evidence…

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Assault on Blum Gaol for Two Royalists Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 5

Two Royalists, Louis Courtois, an insurance agent, and Leon Andurand, a motor driver, were sentenced to three months and two weeks' imprisonment,…

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Gaol Strike Holiday For Anzac Auckland Prisoners Unruly Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 4

On the ground that it was Anzac Day, and a close holiday throughout New Zealand, some of the prisoners in the Mount Eden gaol, Auckland, on…

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Wrestlers in Free Fight Separated By Police Leichhardt Stadium Incident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 7

Police were forced to enter the ring at the Leichhardt Stadium last night, to separate Douglas Clarke and Con Gricas, after Clarke had secured…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 6

Before local Justices at the Maclean Police Court on Monday last, John Guinea, an aged man, was charged with being found drunk. Sergeant McLean…

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Gang Murder in Ireland. Dublin

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 1

A number of men last night drove up to the home of John Egan, at Dungavan, County Waterford, and riddled him with machine gun bullets…

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Smart Police Work Recovery of Stolen Cycles

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 6

The law certainly has the "long arm," as has been proved in the return to Bellingen this week of two bicycles which were stolen from Bellingen about…

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Heavy Vehicles "Will Not Give Way" Criticism by Grafton Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 2

"We have had lots of complaints about these heavy vehicles. They will not give way. They think they are entitled to all the road," said…

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Kopit Remanded Mail Train Murders 40 Police Witnesses. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 5

Herbert Kopit was to-day further remanded till Wednesday, charged with wilfully murdering Harold Edwin Speering and Michael Francis Costello,…

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Marriage Annulled Remarkable Court Evidence "Woman with Imagination." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 3

"Mr. Justice Boyce, in the Divorce Court, to-day, listened to an amazing story, when David Thomas Rushton Smith, medical practitioner, of Mosman…

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Drunken Drivers Magistrate's Remarks Motorist Fined £30. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 5

An outburst against motorists who drive while under the influence of liquor was made by Mr. Shepherd, S.M.. at the Central Police Court, to-day,…

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N.Z. Gaol More Trouble Among Prisoners. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 5

Following a disturbance at Mount Eden gaol, close to the city, on Saturday further trouble occurred to-day, the prisoners, many of them regarded…

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Local and General Smart Work by Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 4

Smart work by Lismore police following reports of pilfering from hotel bedrooms and houses in Lismore at the week-end led to the arrest last…

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Murder Charge Fisherman Accused Dane Missing From S.A. ADELAIDE

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 4

Eric Ronald Ivor Bowman Tapley, 27, fisherman, of Dutton Bay, Eyre Peninsula, was charged at Port Lincoln Police Court to-day, with having…

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Damages and Costs Austin Divorce Case Order of the Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 6

Argument ensued in the Supreme Court at Grafton yesterday, before his Honor, Mr. Justice Owen, on the question of costs and damages and the…

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