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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 64

Crown Case Circumstantial Evidence Broughton School Murder Trial of L. W. ROBERTS[?]

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 5

In stating the Crown case at the Maitland Court to-day. against Leonard William Roberts [?] houseman and cardeuer, who was charged with…

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Parties Agree Charges For Timber Hauling And Fencing District Court Settlement

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 6

In the District Court held before Judge Clancy at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, an application was made by Charles Gordon of South…

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District Court Examination Orders Defendants Fail to Attend Attachment to Issue

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 6

In the District Court, held before Judge Clancy at Grafton yesterday, Albert Marsh, formerly of Yamba, now of Lower Southgate, failed to attend…

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Ten Years Yugo-Slav Sentenced Guilty of Manslaughter. Cairns

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 5

Sentence of ten years hard labor was imposed in the Supreme Court to-day by Acting Justice A. D. Graham on Bozo Gavriloich 24, a Yugo-Slav…

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School Murder Houseman On Trial "Followed by a Man" Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 5

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Storekeeper Wins Claim For Goods Sold Case From Woolgoolga Action in District Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 6

Before his Honor Judge Clancy in the District Court, at Grafton yesterday an action was heard in which William Richards, storekeeper, of Woolgoolga…

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Sale of a Car Late T. C. Sweeney's Estate Question of Purchase Price District Court Action

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 6

In the District Court at Grafton, yesterday an action was heard in which the executors of the estate ol the late Thomas Clarence Sweeney…

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Maclean Police Court Fishing Rod Stolen Thefts at Iluka

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 7

At the Maclean Police Court yesterday, before honorary magistrates, George Williams (46), a stranger to the district, was charged with stealing at…

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Terrifying Experience Girls Charged by Cow

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 6

Two small girls Norma Foster, and Joan Busch, were charged by a cow in Ryan street. South Grafton. The animal struck Joan Busch on the…

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SENTENCED Clever Confidence Man £8400 Haul. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

Described as one of the cleverest confidence tricksters, Alfred Dean Lawson, 58, bookmaker, who was born in Australia, was sentenced at the Old Bailey…

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Two Sentenced a Girl From Darwin Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

After a retirement of four hours a jury found Martin Young, 28, solicitor, Henry Levy, 35. clerk, and Mrs. Jean Smith, 39. guilty of having used…

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Police Traps Discouraged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

Judge Thomson, in the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court to-day, said police constables had not the right to trap a man, of good character into…

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Sonja Henie Man Charged with Attempting to Extort Money. Hollywood

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

Fred Cunningham, 24, a native ol Scotland, has been indicted on a charge of attempting to extort £125 from the film star, Sonja Henie…

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Bomb Outrage Police Continuing Inquiries. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 4

Police are continuing [?] into the [?] bomb outrage in which Alfred Ernest Smith, union [?] and his wife were [?]…

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School Murder Trial At Maitland Case to Go to Jury. Maitland

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 4

An application by Mr. Clancy. K.C. representing Roberts, to take the case from the jury on the ground that then was no evidence against the accused…

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Licensing Court Quarterly Meeting Hotel Conditions Satisfactory

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 7

The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court for the Grafton police district was held at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday afternoon, the…

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Stocking Murder Jury Acquits Roberts "Circumstantial Evidence" Admission by Crown. Maitland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 5

Leonard William Roberts was acquitted on a charge of murdering Dorothy May Everett (27), domestic, in the grounds of Broughton Church…

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Stealing From Church Collection Plate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 11

Francis James Barker pleaded guilty in the Charleville (Q.) Police Court, before Mr. J. C. Baker. Acting P.M., to having stolen 9 from a Charleville…

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Rabaul Eruption Recalled In Probate Court Missing Electrician. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 5

The vol[?] cus[?] at Raiul had our was realised in the probate court to-day when in Nicholas granted Richard Eaworthy leave swear to the death of william…

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