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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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"Tasted Poison" "Girl Spat It Out" Intent To Murder Charge "Marriage Was Forbidden" Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 4

Reference to an alleged agreement between a young couple to take poison because of objections to their marriage was made by Dorothy Barbara Gee at…

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Police Puzzled Mine Shaft Murder Bullet Hole In Skull Dead Man Unidentified Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

A parallel to the Albury pyjama girl mystery is facing the 10 officers of the Criminal Investigation Branch, who are working on the Wedderbitrn…

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Police Appeals Hearing On February 2 Protest Against Dismissals. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

The Police Appeal Board will sit in camera on February 2 to hear appeals by police who were dismissed from the force or censured as a result of the…

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Was It a Joke? Street Barricaded Police Probe Mystery. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

A barricade of picket fencing, 5ft. high and 25ft. long was placed across Moore street, Moonee Ponds, early to-day. The fencing was torn down from…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

In the Small Debts Court at Grafton yesterday the W. H. Gurton Tire Co., Ltd., of Fitzroy street, sued H. Heilson of Lismore, for the recovery of £212…

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MUTILATED Body Of British Girl Peking Murder. Peking

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

Doctors who carried out a postmortem examination of Pamela Werner suggest that she was murdered indoors and the body subsequently dumped in…

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Brophy Case Melbourne Shooting Two Men Charged "Grossly Improper and Unfair" Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

"That at Royal Park on May 22 they did wound John O'Connell Brophy with intent to murder," was, the charge preferred against William…

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Hotel "Barber" Lismore Conviction Alleged Police Persecution. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

Described by the police as being one of lite most notorious hotel "barbers" in New South Wales, Percy Smith, 27. was sentenced to three months'…

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U.S.A. Supreme Court Must Follow Election Returns New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

Mr. Emanuel Caller, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, in a radio address to-day said: "The Supreme Court must be made to follow the…

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Police Superintendent Shot

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 4

Superintendent W. Brydon and Constable Jerome escaped serious injury by a narrow margin in a shooting mishap at Adamstown police station, on…

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Peking Murder Rickshaw Boy Arrested. Peking

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 5

While washing a cushion cover a rickshaw boy was arrested to-day on a charge relating to the murder of Pamela Werner 18. The boy told the…

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False Teeth Clue in Mystery Mine Shaft Murder Victim Probably Returned Soldier Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 5

Mildura police to-day received information which may solve the mystery of the finding of the remains of a man in a mine shaft at…

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Bogus Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 8

While Leo Platus was in a milk bar in King street, Newtown, on Saturday night, he was approached by two men, who remarked: "We have had…

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Peking Murder Englishman Detained. Peking

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 5

A man has been detained in connection with the murder of Miss Werner. He is reported to be English. Mr. Edward Werner, the father of…

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Strikers Win Police Withdraw From Factory

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 5

FLINT (Michigan), Wednesday. Police to-day withdrew from the Fisher car body building factories leaving strikers in possessoin…

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Nation Siiocked Murder of Boy Hunt For Kidnapper 10,000 Dollars Reward Washington

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 5

President Roosevelt, in the course of a statement to-day regarding the murder of the 10-year-old Mattson' boy by his kidnapper, declared that…

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"Guilty, Sir". Lesson for Motorist The Quickest Way in Sydney Traffic Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 6

Experience has Taught many motorists at that the quickest and easiest way out of a minor charge in the Sydney Traffic Court is to plead guilty,…

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Thousand Police Search for Kidnapper. Tacoma (Washington)

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

It was disclosed to-day that the tenyear-old Mattson boy, who was murdered by his kidnapper, was first stabbed in the back and then…

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Negro Arrested For Murder Of Woman Fingerprints-- Bloodstained Clothing. New York

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

Accumulation of evidence has resulted in the authorities holding Major Green, a negro porter, for the murder of Mrs. Case, who was battered to…

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Bathurst Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 4

Slowly but surely departmental hands are, so to speak, plucking fruit from the industrial tree at the Bathurst gaol, so much so that to-day this…

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