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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Sack Murder Coroner Opens Inquest Margrethe O'Brien's Death Husband in Custody Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 5

Evidence that he could not express a definite opinion as to the cause of death was given by the Government Medical Officer, Dr…

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Bank Officers Entitled To Consideration Arbitration Court Case. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 5

With no possible chance of the bank officers' dispute being heard by the Arbitration Court for some months, Chief Judge Dethridge suggested to the…

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Reilly Acquitted Shooting of Thomas Demonstration In Court Crown Witness Criticised Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 5

After police evidence had been given that Thomas had a reputation for being a dangerous and violent man, Richard Gabriel Reilly, 29, was…

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Three Dead Two Brothers, Sister Bloodstained Axe Mother Charged with Murder Terrible Tragedy Near Cairns. Cairns

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 5

Two young men and their sister are dead as the result of being attacked with an axe while asleep early this morning, in their home, in an…

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"Quite Normal" Night Before Murder Inquest at Newcastle. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 5

At the inquest to-day into the death of Dorothy May Everett, whose body was found in the grounds of Broughton School on November 28, Eadith…

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Murder in Hotel Woman's Nude Body in Room. Ptttsburg

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 5

A chambermaid entered a room in a hotel and found the nude body of a woman in bed with a note pinned on the dresser. "Jake. We are pulling out…

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Man Shot Argument In Hotel Intent to Murder Charge. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 4

Harcourt Lee, 38, was charged in the police court to-day with haying shot Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, of Sydney, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, on…

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"Fair Man" Police Commissioner Praised by Senior Officers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 5

The statement made by Superintendnet Collings that the Commissioner of Police, Mr, Mackay, was a business man who saved the department much money…

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White Man and Aboriginal Wife Fined at Casino Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 8

At Casino Police Court a white man, Edwin Percy Griffin (27) and his aboriginal wife, Bella Griffin (24), were each fined £5 for indecent…

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Coff's Court Sanitary Contractors Hearing of Charge Adjourned. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 6

Stating that the defence had raised an unusual type of technicality, Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Coff's Harbor Police Court on Wednesday granted an…

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Husband's Alleged Statement Sack Murder Sensation at Inquest Argument Over Man "I Didnt Knot "What I Was Doing"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 5

A remarkable Statement alleged to have been made by Dudley Lorraine O'Brien (22) was produced by the police on the resumption to-day of…

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Divorce Petition Casino District Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 7

A divorce petition on the grounds of adultery was before his Honor, Judge Claney in the District Court at Casino on Thursday…

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New Trial Ordered Action For Detention Casino District Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 4

Before his Honor Judge Clancy on Friday at Casino District Court application was made on behalf of Mrs. Jane Wyllie, of Walker street. Casino,…

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Husband Shot Wife's Head Battered Tragedy Near Cairns Police Deta[?] Man Cairns

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 5

A tragedy was discovered early this morning in a farmhouse belonging to a young Yugo-Slav couple in the Upper Cassowary district, near…

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Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 7

James Marsh, an aboriginal, appeared before Mr. F. Hall, J.P., at Ulmarrn Court of Petty Sessions on a charge drunkenness and was fined 10 of one…

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Youth on Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 4

James Francis Baker (18) appeared before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday charged with stealing a bicycle valued at £9,…

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21st. Christmas in Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 7

After pleading guilty in the Brisbane Police Court on Thursday to having been found in possession of four sheath knives reasonably suspected of having…

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Murder Charge Death Of Yugo-Slav half-brother before court. BRISBANE

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 5

At Mossman Police Court to-day Bozo Gavrilovich, 25, aYugo-Slav, was charged with the murder of his half- brother, Mitar Gavrilovich, 35, on Saturday morning…

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Assault on Girl Youth Sentenced to Three Years. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 5

John Alexander George Thompson, 17, laborer, was sentenced by Judge Sheridan at the Quarter Sessions today, to three years' imprisonment, for…

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Ostend Crash Aerodrome Official Charged. Brussels

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 5

The public prosecutor has ordered a notice to be served on Captain Daems, superintendent at Ostend airport, on a charge of manslaughter…

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