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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Belfast Riot Police Charge Crowd Banned Cemetery Service Republican Commemoration London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 5

With batons drawn, police to-day, charged a thousand people gathered outside the Milltown cemetery, Belfast, when they had risen from their…

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Triple Murder Women an Lodger Apartment House Horror Ice Pick or Stiletto Used New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 5

Mrs. Mary Gedson, (54), her daughter, Veronica (20), and their lodger, Frank Byrnes (35), were mysteriously murdered in a fourth…

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Aboriginal Charged Fined £5 at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 3

Before Messrs. G. W. Austen and L. A. Macdonald, J.'sP., at the Maclean Police Court on Monday, George James, an aboriginal, was charged that, being…

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New Police Car

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 3

Two cars capable of 100 m.p.h. with a full load have been ordered from London for the Melbourne police patrols, and more are to follow. They…

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Official Executed Russian Train Wreck Engine Drivers Sent to Gaol. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 5

As a result of a train wreck on the Trans-Caucasus railway, ill which two Red army soldiers were seriously injured and 13 coaches were derailed, the…

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Alleged Conspiracy in Divorce Case Four Men Charged at Lismore Police Say Trap Was Set For Wife "Accused Exposed Plot to Victim" "Arranged To Be Caught In The House" LISMORE

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 5

Remarkable evidence was given at Lismore Police Court to-day when the hearing was commenced of the charges of conspiracy, against four men, arising out of divorce proceedings in the case, Ehlefeldt v. Ehlefeldt, at the sittings of the Supreme Court in Lismore, last September…

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Assault on Beach

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 7

Two colored men, Thomas A. Parsons and Hector Terare, were sentenced in Coolangatta Police Court, on Monday afternoon, to two months and…

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Supreme Court Cancelled

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

The Acting C.P.S. at Grafton (Mr. E. I. Cocks) received a telegram from the Under Secretary of the Department of Justice yesterday stating that…

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Trophies Stolen at Police Dinner

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 11

Two silver trophies among a number presented to winners at the dinner at Braintree Division Police Sports Club were stolen during the festivities…

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Two Girls Charged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

Two girls appeared before [?] Cocks, J.P., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning charged with being idle arid disorderly persons having…

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Gaol and Fines Conspiracy Charges Queensland Sentences. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 5

Four men, who recently were found guilty of conspiracy, were to-day before Mr. Justice Macrossan for sentence. Charles Byrnes (49) and…

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Fatal Fight Man Shot Dead Quarrel Over Betting? Sydney Murder Charge Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 5

The story of a shooting affray which occurred during a fight at Marrickville, on March 20, was unfolded at the Coronor's Court to-day…

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Police Appeals Board Has No Jurisdiction 13 Dismissed Officers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

The Police Appeals Board to-day held that it had no jurisdiction to deal with the appeals of 13 policemen who were dismissed by an order of the…

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Police Baffled New York Murders Women Attack Father Strange Scene at Funeral New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 5

Apparently baffled over Sunday's triple murder, in which a mother and her daughter and a boarder were killed, the police have now…

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N.S.W. Police Public "Rumblings" Investigation Proposal U.A.P. MOTlON N[?]atived Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

By a small majority the U.A.P. convention to-night negatived a resolution to urge the Government to bring out a competent officer from…

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Scriven Murder Petition For Mercy Dismissed by Criminal Appeal Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 5

The Court of Criminal Appeal to-day dismissed by unanimous decision the petition for mercy by Rupert Davis and William John Cody, who…

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Dismissed Russian Minister Another Soviet Sensation Head of Secret Police for Trial Moscow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 5

The Commissar for Communications, M. Yagoda, who is regarded as the most hated man in Russia, was dismissed from his post to-day and…

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Transport Case High Court Hearing Riverina Company and Victorian Board Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 5

The hearing of an important case affecting the transport of goods from Victoria to Now South Wales was commenced before Mr. Justice…

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Escaped From Home Police Search for Four Youths Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 4

Escaping at 2 a.m. from Newhaven Boys' Home, Phillip Island, four youths reached the mainland in a boat which they are alleged to have stolen. Police…

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Cork Riots Shooting Of Farmer's Son Judge Criticises Police. Dublin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 5

Declaring there was no justification for police firing a fusilade at men huddled on a lorry and others running to escape. Mr. Justice Hannan, in the…

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