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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

1,247 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 31 of 63

Man with Pistol Gaol and £50 Fine. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 2

Remarking that he did not know how he had escaped being called an habitual criminal, a Magistrate at Newcastle Police Court to-day sentenced…

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Croydon Tragedy Three Men On Murder Father, Son and Brother-in-law. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 5

When the case was continued to-day, in which George Thatcher Brown (51), Harold George Brown (25), and Harry Searle (44), father, son and…

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Declared Invalid Compulsory Marketing Act Canadian Court Decision. Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 5

Compulsory pool marketing of agricultural products has suffered a severe blow in the decision of the Supreme Court ruling as invalid the National…

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Police Methods Vic. Chief Justice's Criticism Sir Thomas Blamey's Reply Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 5

A reply to statements of the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Mann, who strongly criticised the methods adopted by the police to obtain confessions,…

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Pirate Ship Is It Girl Pat? Sighted Off Guiana Threat to Fire on Police London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 5

A sensational report that the missing pirate trawler, Girl Pat, had been sighted off the coast of British Guiana and that the crew had threatened to…

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Secret Court German Communists Sentenced Berlin

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 5

Twenty-nine residents of the Saar, including six women, were sentenced to imprisonment for periods extending from nine years to nine months, for…

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Prisoner Acquitted Alleged Assault by Police. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 8

Norman Herbert Campbell was acquitted at the General Sessions to-day on a charge of having stolen money. Campbell alleged that he had been…

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Germans Sentenced Plotting in Poland. Warsaw

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 5

One hundred and five German Nazis were sentenced to terms ranging from 10 years to 18 months, on charges of having attempted to separate Upper…

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Murder Clue Aorangi to Be Met New Zealand Police Act Sydney Wardrobe Mystery Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 5

Inquiries into the Clarence street residential murder have suddenly been transferred to New Zealand. A message from Auckland to-night…

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Wanted a Feed Alleged Theft of a Pen

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 4

When Mr. E. B. Roper, manager of the Grafton branch of the New England Motor Co., was returning to his office in Prince street about 1.30 p.m…

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Home Sign's Win Two Men Charged in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 1

Two men were charged at Glebe police station to-day with false pretences in connection with the running of a dog known as Home Sign at…

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Shows a Profit Police Royal Commission Sale of Shorthand Transcripts. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 5

It is expected that the Royal Commission inquiring into police affairs will make a slight profit for the Government after all expenses have…

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8 Dogs Seized by Police Sensation At Lismore Well-known Rivers Performers Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 4

Two Lismore police officers, Sergt. Nelson and Constable Ritchie, stood guard over eight greyhound dog kennels for five hours early this…

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Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 6

Before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court, yesterday morning, Thomas Raymond McClare, who admitted having been found drunk in…

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Coffs Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 2

On Saturday last, at Coffs Harbour Police Court, a colored man named Ronald Turn bull was fined 10s or one day's gaol tor trespassing on railway…

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VALEDICTORY Popular Police Magistrate Departure of Mr. S. J. BLISS

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 6

Before ordinary business of Grafton Court of Petty Sessions was proceeded with yesterday morning, members of the legal profession, C.P.S…

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Motor Traffic Breaches Of Regulation Police Court Prosecution

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 7

At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., Alfred James Ca[?]anach pleaded guilty lc a charge of having caused…

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4980Z. of Gold Three Men Charged Alleged Theft From Mine £585 Found in Stable Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 4

The finding of £585 in notes, and over nine ounces of gold in a tin under the manger in a stable at Lucknow, was described in evidence at…

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Claim for Court Fees

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 4

Before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, William Higham was proceeded against by the secretary of the Grafton…

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On the Trace Theft Of Fountain Pen Man Looking for a Feed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 6

Joseph Hackett, 39, who admitted that he was on the track, pleaded guilty at the Grafton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M.,…

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