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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Mungadal Station For Anthony Hordern, Jun. Court Authorises Purchase. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 4

Mr. Justice Long Innes, in the Equity Court to-day, made an order authorising the trustees of the Hordern Estate to purchase Mungadal Station, near…

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Equalisation Levies Case For Full Court Equalisation Committee V. Goulburn Dairy Society. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 4

In connection with the case in which the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee, Ltd., is seeking to recover £1094146 from the…

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£14 in Fines Two Men For Stealing a Third Remanded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 7

Fines totalling £14 were imposed by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court on two young men for stealing, while a third pleaded not…

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Third Trial Scriven Murder Case Question of Identity. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 5

In the Criminal Court to-day the third trial was commenced of Rupert Davies (28) and William John Cody (24), charged with the murder of James…

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Dairy Dues Case for Full Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 5

When the hearing of the case, the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee, Ltd., v. the Goulburn Co-op. Dairy Society, Ltd., was…

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Gun Fight Police And Mob One Killed, Scores Injured. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 5

One picket was killed and scores of persons injured, 28 being admitted to hospital, in a three-hour gun battle between 5000 strike sympathisers and a…

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Widow Sentenced Murder of Daughter. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 5

Mrs. Helen Tierney, a 25-year-old widow, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment from 20 years to life for the murder of her seven-years-old…

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Body Buried Grenfell Murder Victim Spirit Message Police Not Interested Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 5

Police do not Intend; to take any action following the spirit message given in the Town Hall last night by Arthur Ford, the American medium…

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Police Fire on Oilfield Strikers. Port of Spain

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 5

Two more men and a boy are dead, and 26 were wounded, when police fired on parading strikers on the oilfields…

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Court Reports What Is Contempt? Newspapers' Protection Application Dismissed Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 5

In a Full Court reserved judgment to-day in which important definitions of the law with regard to liability of newspapers for contempt of court…

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Jury Disagrees Scriven Murder Case Accused Remanded for Fourth Trial. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 5

After a retirement of five hours,a jury in the Criminal Court to-night announced that it had been found impossible to reach agreement in the case…

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Increase in Fed Basic Wage 6 Per Week Judgment Delivered Fed. Arbitration Court the New Rates Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 5

An increase of 6 in the basic wage of workers in New South Wales, who come under Federal awards, was granted by the Commonwealth…

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Maclean Police Court Alleged Cattle Stealing Cases Adjourned

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 6

Charges of alleged cattle stealing came before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at the Maclean Police Court yesterday, when Raymond Schipp, of Maclean,…

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Serious Clashes Police and Ex-soldiers. Brussels

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 5

Serious clashes occurred between police, and 20,000 ex-soldiers who marched on the capital demanding the repeal of legislation pardoning…

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Alleged Stealing "Benefit of the Doubt."

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 6

"The circumstances arc no more than very suspicious and I propose to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt,' said Mr. J. McElroy,' P.M., in the…

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"Send for the Police" Evidence At Inquest Man on Murder Charge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 4

That a man had said "Send for the police. I have murdered my best pal." was stated by Mrs. Elizabeth Willey, of Surry Hills, at the Coroner's Court…

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"Most Brutal" Balmain Assault Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 6

Describing the assault as almost brutal one, Judge Sheridan, at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, sentenced George Thomas Jackson (31) to two…

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COPMANHUKST Four Charges Of Stealing Sentence of Three Months

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 8

At the Copmanhurst Police Court on Wednesday, 23rd inst., before Mr. J. McrElroy, Police Magistrate, Ernest Thomas David Dixon was sentenced to…

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Man Charged With Manslaughter Remanded at Murwillumeah. Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 4

A charge of feloniously slaying Austin Horatio Clugston, at Uki, on June 2o, was preferred against Alphonsus William Edmond Guinea…

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Death Sentence Tasmanian Double Murder Moina Shooting Case. Launceston

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 5

The Moina shooting case was concluded in the Criminal Court to-day. when the jury found Donovan Henry Charles Cruttenderi, Packet, 33, gulity…

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