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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

1,247 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 63

Maclean Police Court. Alleged Traffic Breach

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 4

Before Mr. S.J. Bliss, P.M., on Thursday last, Keith Kelly was charged with committing a breach of the Traffic Act…

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Indecent Assault Charge. Accused Committed for Trial

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 1

At Maclean Police Court, on Thursday last, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., Louis Rigg, of Yumba, on remand, was charged that on the 16th January he…

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Story of Perfect Valet. Amusement in Brussels Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 2

No vaudeville, could have produced a greater laugh than that which. shook the rafters of a Brussels court when Firmin, the perfect conception of a…

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Alleged Thefts Youths In Court AGED 16 AND 17

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 1

Herbert Lewis Edwards, 18, in the Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., was charged with having broken and entered…

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Maclean Police Court Traffic Breaches

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

In the Maclean Police Court, Bernard Parkinson was proceeded against for having on December 15, committed a breach of the motor traffic act…

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Police Court Alleged Stolen Car

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

At Coffs Harbour Police Court yesterday morning George William Dent (31) and Thomas William Lavis (25) were charged with having unlawfully…

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Hotel Licensee Charged with Offensive Behaviour

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 3

A charge of offensive behaviour was preferred against James Frederibk Stewart, licensee of the Hotel Clarence, Maclean. Defendant was represented…

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Assault at Ulmarra Town Clerk Attacked. Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

At the Ulmarra Court of Petty Sessions on Saturday, before Messrs. F. Hall and R. Carlton, J's.P., Thomas Henry Neil was charged that on…

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Boxer's Death Murder Charge Follows. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

Following the death of James Taylor (23), in hospital on Saturday night, Herbert Nelson Lane (30), laborer, of Collingwood, appeared befor the City…

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In Skyscraper All Night Search For Thief 200 Police Combing 60 Floors New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 4

One of the wierdest man hunts New York police have ever undertaken is under way, to-night. Two hundred patrolmen and…

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32 Injured Police and Students Clash. Cairo

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 5

Egyptian students have declared a general strike. No clashes have occurred in Cairo where bridges were opened to prevent the approach of 1200…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court Three Charges

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 2

Frank Ernest Stevens (44) was charged with having been drunk in Ocean street, Coff's Harbor Jetty, on Saturday. night last; having used…

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Strychnine Melb. Girl's Death Man On Murder Charge Committed for Trial Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 5

The City Coroner, to-day committed Edward Wallsley Miller, 39, motor mechanic, of North Fitzroy, for trial on a charge of having…

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Police Criticised Handling Of London Crowds But Swarm of People Was Unparalleled. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 5

There is general temptation to criticise police handling of the crowds, which was the first test of Sir Philip Game's Commissionership…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court More Train "Jockeys." Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

At the Coff's Harbor Police Court yesterday, William Drummond, Jack Brown and William George Smith appeared on a charge of trespassing on…

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The Police Gazette

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 3

The strangest newspaper in the world cannot be purchased! Nor can you insert advertisements in it. Yet it is published twice daily and has a…

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Theft From Camps Bench Takes Serious View Two Men Convicted

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

The Bench at Coffs Harbour Poiice Court yesterday took a serious view in cases in which two colored young men were…

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"Men Without Names." Police Story

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 7

How the American Government has organised scientific criminology and a picked body of men in the fight to exterminate crime in that country is…

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CONSPIRACY Former Detective Charged Fraud Alleged Prisoner's Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 5

Further evidence was taken at the Central Court to-day in the case in which John Ellis Findlay, 40, a former detective; Ernest Coombe, 40:…

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Seven Days' Gaol Food Relief Seeker Charge of False Pretences

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 7

Joseph Baker, 22, before Mr. Bliss, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday, was charged with having falsely pretended to Sergeant…

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