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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 64

Spy Suspects Four Charged in U.S.A. New York

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 5

Four suspected spies, Rumrich, Glaser, Voss and Johanna Hofmann, were arraigned on a charge of espionage. They pleaded not guilty. Their…

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Bull Shot Found in Scrub Tyringham Resident Before Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 2

At Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, William Freeman, farmer, of Tyringham, was charged with having maliciously killed a black…

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False Pretences Sentenced To Three Months Many Previous Convictions Defendant Receives Chance to Reform

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 June 1938 · page 3

Entering into a career of crime during 1927, which has resulted in him receiving numerous convictions in practically every State in Australia,…

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Murder Charge British Seaman Acquitted Shooting Off Queensland Coast. Hong Kong

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 June 1938 · page 5

Able Seaman Edwin Dwyer (19), of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, was acquitted on a charge of murdering Leading Seaman Robert Dickonson, while the…

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Human Hand Found In Melbourne Puzzle for Police. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 June 1938 · page 5

Police theories that the human hand found on Tuesday at East Burwood belonged to a postal linesman who was run over by a train near Clayton…

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Bank Clerk £69,000 Theft Alleged Brisbane Case Police Court Hearing Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 5

Cecil Robert Trottman Foote. 37. clerk, employed by the National Bank of Australasia, came before the Police Court to-day on six charges of theft…

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Police Promotions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 4

The following promotions in the Police force were announced to-day: --Sergeants, third-class, to sergeants. second-class, A McLean, Maclean, W…

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False Pretences Gaol For Business Man Documents Forged. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 5

Three years imprisonment was imposed on John Charles Earle (48). manager, at the General Sessions, today, after he was found guilty of…

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Railway Theft Former Employee Fined Took Pollard to Feed Fowls. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 5

Convicted on a charge of stealing a bag of pollard, valued at 13. the properly of the Commissioner for Railways, Clarence John Edward Mochcad…

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For Plaintiff P. M. Returns Verdict Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 7

W. J. Hawthorne and Some of South Grafton,[?] for failure to pay for bullocks bough by auction on January 21. before Mr…

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Found Safe Missing Man And Boy Search by Woodburn Police. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 5

When Frank Ralph, forestry worker, and Dean Moss (13). son of Mr. and Mrs Moss, of the Richmond Hotel. Woodburn, who went on horseback…

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21 Days' Imprisonment Refused To Pay For Lodging's Case in Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 1

For refusing to pay the sum of £1011 for food and lodgings, to Thomas Michael Quinn, proprietor of the Albion Hotel, Grafton, Robert…

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£369 Verdict Macleay River Appeal Equalisation Levies Full Court Decision Reserved Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 5

For failure to abide by the provisions of an agreement he made with the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee, Ltd.,…

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Old Gaol Timbers in Altar

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 8

Using wood from 70-year-old buildings recently demolished, a prisoner in the Bendigo gaol has made an artistic altar, with crude tools. The altar has…

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Five Years' Gaol For Two Youths Railway Hold-up Sequel. West Maitland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 5

Convicted on a charge of having, while armed, assaulted Cyril Clyde Maher, with intent to rob him, at Farley railway station, on March 8,…

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Bullet Wound? Tocumwal Mystery Pathologist to Aid Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 5

The [?] to-day [?]by [?] from Sydney to [?]…

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"Shadow Fighting" Disturbance In Prince Street Sequel in Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 1

Ralph Barrett (49), of Grafton, was fined £110, in default three days hard labor, at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, when he appeared before…

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Lismore Case Foreigner Sentenced Bankrupt Failed to Keep Books. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 June 1938 · page 4

Nicholas John Cassimatis was charged in the Bankruptcy Court today, with having at Lismore, while being a bankrupt, failed to keep proper…

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Collision Near Newton Boyd Has Sequel in Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 June 1938 · page 4

The sequel to a collision between a motor cycle and car near Newton Boyd on March 28 was heard in the Glen Innes Police Court, when, before Mr…

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Dil R V. Storer Bankruptcy Court Case. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 June 1938 · page 4

The name of Dr. Robert Vivian Sto[?]er. p[?] on the £35,000 claim for alleged libel was called in the Bankruptcy Court to-day but he did not…

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