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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 64

Due to Neglect Capsize of Rodney Verdict Of Marine Court Master to Show Cause Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 5

Delivering judgment in the Marine Court, to-day, on the sinking of the launch, Rodney, Judge Markell called upon the master of the Rodney,…

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Night Intruder Aboriginal Sentenced. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1938 · page 5

A Bathurst Island aboriginal, Victor was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the Police Court to-day, for having been unlawfully on premises…

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Hotel Fight Second Man Fined Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 2

Police Court proceedings in respect to a fight between two men in the Post Office Hotel, South Grafton, and in Skinner street late in the afternoon…

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Special Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

Before the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. J. McElroy) in the Special Licensing Court, Grafton, yesterday, Raymond Hansford, licensee of the Imperial…

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Man Sentenced Three Years' Imprisonment Cowardly Attacks on Women. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 5

Found guilty of robbery. John Degnan, 35 was to-day sentenced to years imprisonment by Judge Sheridan at the Darlinghurst Sessions…

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£840 Theft From Bank Counter Cash And Cheques Gone Sydney Firm's Loss Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 5

When a clerk employed by a solicitor turned away from a counter at the Elizabeth street branch of the Commercial Banking Co., Sydney,…

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£15.000 INVOLVED Alleged Theft Of Gold Man Arrested on Motor Shir. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

Alleged to have been concerned in the then of gold worth £15,000 from a [?] Frank Savage a member in the Melbourne Stork Exchange, was…

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Murder Charge Death From Knife Wound Trial Opens at Ipswich. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 5

The trial commenced at Ipswich to-day of John Henry Griper. 59 on a charge of wilfully murdering his nephew. Alan Henry Dalrymple…

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Lismore Raid Squad of Sydney Police Alleged Gaining House Fines Total £72 LISMORE

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 5

Twenty-nine men were fined amounts totalling £72. at Lismore Police Court to-day, on charges arising out of a raid on premises in…

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£3 or Six Days Man Charged with Offensive Behaviour

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 1

John Joseph. Moore, 50, a stranger to the district, appeared before Mr. J. McElroy. P.M., at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday morning, on a charge…

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Police Adventures Hunting Dangerous Men SERGEANT McCRATH Retires Memories of the Service

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 4

Exciting events in the life of a police officer were recalled yesterday by Sergeant McGrath. formerly officer in charge of South Grafton Police…

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Murder Verdict at Newtown Inquest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 7

After hearing additional evidence the City Coroner, Mr. Oram, to-day committed Myles Henry McKean for trial on a charge of having feloniously and…

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Sentences at Lismore Sessions £1500 Jewel Robbery Two Years and a Half Gaol Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 6

Sentence of two years and a half hard labor, to date from the time of his arrest on October 23 last year, was imposed on Robert Walker, 29,…

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Criminals in U.S.A. Police. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 5

The "New York Times" correspondent in Washington says the fingerprints of Federal Marshals throughout the country, under the…

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Girl Friend Evidence in Bankruptcy Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 7

During the examination of his affair in an order to bankruptcy. Joseph [?]man and [?]ier, to-day [?] in Bankruptcy that…

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Man Shot Youth on Murder Charge verdict Of Manslaughter Ten Years Imprisonment Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 5

Eric Alexander Smith, 20, sheet metal worker, was charged in the Central Criminal Court to-day, with the murder of Alfred Ernest Hedges,…

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Law Books Rights Of Publication Equity Court Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 4

In reserved judgment in the Equity Court to-day. Mr. Justice Long Innes granted a perpetual injunction restraining Butterworth and Co., Ltd., law…

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Fugitive Gun Duel with Police Suicide Verdict Story at Inquest Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 5

At the inquiry into the death of Adrian Jones, 28, who died on March 14, Dr. Clarence Percy at the City Coroner's Court to-day expressed…

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Maclean Police Court Motor License Cases

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 7

At Maclean Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Alexander McPherson, sen., and Alexander McPherson, jun., of Yamba, were each…

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Not Guilty Charge of Horse Stealing. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 5

After a retirement of three hours a jury at Lismore Quarter Sessions today found Ernest Gulliver. 38. not guilty on a charge of stealing horses…

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