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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Three Years' Gaol Solicitor Sentenced MISAPPROPRIATED £2000. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 5

The case in which David Campbell, 52, solicitor, was charged with fraudulent misappropriation was concluded at Darlinghurst Sessions to-night…

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Flogging and Gaol Punishment for Criminal Assault Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

A flogging of 20 strokes of the cat o'nine tails and three, years imprisonment was the sentenced imposed on Alwyn Rainton Keys (25), laborer, of…

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Police Officers Farewelled At Grafton Tributes at Smoke Social

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 4

On the evening of the 26th instant Detective Sergeant Paterson and Sergeant Mills who for some time past have been attached to the police staff…

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Unionist's Death Murder Plot Alleged U.S.A. Millionaire Involved. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 5

Samuel Rosoff, multi-millionaire, and Joseph Fay, a local official of the building trades unions, have been accused of jointly plotting to murder…

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Burglary Charge Sawtell Railway Shed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3

Last Saturday night Constable Buchanan, spent a lonely vigil at the unattended goods shed at Sawtell railway siding. First of all he took…

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"Hit on Head" with Iron Bar Victim's Throat Cut Police Evidence in Murder Case Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

Grim details of alleged happenings in a shed in Normanby railway yards on February 6 were related in the Police Court to-day when Allen…

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Prohibited Hours Police Visit Two Hotels Successful Prosecutions

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 3

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Robert Erskine Simpson arid Bernard Christopher Bollard, both of Grafton,…

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Void Flour Acquisition Act High Court Decision Large Sum Involved Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

The High Court of Australia today unanimously held that the provisions of the New South Wales Flour Acquisition Act were void,…

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Orara Valley News Stolen Rug At Glenreagh Coramba Court of Petty Sessions

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 7

In the Coramba Court of Petty Sessions on Friday last William Stewart, aged 18 years, was charged with stealing a travelling rug, the property of…

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Butter Payment Supreme Court Test May Conclude To-day Equalisation Challenged Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

The test case on the butter equalisation scheme is expected to conclude in the Supreme Court to-morrow. The hearing, which was adjourned…

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Mrs. Simpson Her Future Title H.R.H. Duchess Of Windsor Question of Court Precedence London, February 13

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

There is still a great deal of discussion about the title and dignity to be assumed by Mrs. Simpson on her marriage to the Duke of…

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SUSPENDED Road Transport Commissioner Court Proceedings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 4

Following a conference of the Executive Council last night, the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. S. A. Maddocks, was to-day suspended from…

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Police Inquiry to Be Reopened. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 6

At a meeting of the State Executive Council to-day Judge Markell issued with further Royal Commission empowering him "to hear evidence and to…

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Jewellery Theft Daring Melbourne Burglar. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 5

Rifling the dressing table only a few feet from where Alfred Brash and his wife were sleeping in their home at Toorak last night, a burglar stole…

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Shot Fired At Foreign Club Proprietor Charged in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 3

Anthony Pacini (45), club proprietor, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having shot at Neville Battros, with intent to d[?]…

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Monks' Demand Dismiss the Abbot Strike In A Monastery Police Prepare for Capture Cairo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 5

A force of 250 police has been instructed to capture the monastery near Assuit, in which Coptic monks had been carrying on a stay-in strike…

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Police Trap Blackmailer Caught Four Months Gaol. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 4

It is seldom that a charge of blackmail reaches the courts. This lent added interest to the hearing of a charge against Raymond Lee Gibbs…

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Chicken Coop As Woman's Prison Doctor Sent to Gaol. London, February 13

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 7

Menial specialist Dr. Abraham Litvak was sentenced at Tel-aviv, Palestine, this work, to a year's imprisonment for detaining…

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Ex-police Sergeant Fined

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 8

F. E. Nicholls, one time officer in charge of Woodburn police-station, was on Wednesday, at Casino, fined 26, and 56 costs, for driving a car…

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Youth Sentenced Shot Man With Revolver Two Years and Six Months. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 2

Found guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day on a charge of having maliciously wounded Arthur Sydney Bradstock. John Joseph Abrahams, 18, was…

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