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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 64

Forgery Charge Sydney Supreme Court Certificate. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 7

Andrew John Gibson, aged 72, described as a doctor of medicine, was remanded for a week at Liverpool Police Court, charged with forging a Sydney…

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Police and Dairy Inspections

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 4

The Lismore Police Association decided at its annual meeting to seek the support of delegates at the New South Wales Police Association Conference in…

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Trouble on Ship Seaman Sent to Gaol. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 5

Police boarding the cargo steamer, Mahia, from Australia, after its arrival in Royal Albert Docks, London, led to rumors of mutiny during the…

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Knife Wound In Detective's Neck Incident at Gaol Yard. Townsville

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 4

After Acting Detective-Sergeant Vincent Quinn, of Ingham, entered the gaol yard at midday to-day in response to a request, and was leaving after…

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2200 Police on Duty. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 5

To cope with the crowds, 2200 police were on duty, in a twelve-hour shift, from early morning until evening. The perfectness of the…

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Knife Attack Alleged By Police Detective Wounded. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 4

Following an attack upon Detective Quinn in the yard of Townsville gaol, yesterday, Janie's Savage came before the Townsville Police Court to-day on a…

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Vagrancy Charge Three Men Sentenced Attempted to Sell Food Relief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. C. H. Blackmore and A. R. Taylor, J'sP., Hugh King Edmund (37), a laborer,…

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Murder--suicide? Fingal Tragedy South Sea Islander Shot Aboriginal Commits Suicide Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 4

A double, tragedy occurred at Fingal, near Tweed Heads, this afternoon. Christopher Walker, a…

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Frightful Jap. Atrocities in China Wholesale Murder and Looting Unspeakable Crimes Against Women "Misery and Terror Continue Everywhere" Missionaries' Protest To Tokio Unavailing LONDON

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 5

The horrifying story of executions, rape and looting by Japanese soldiers is contained in reports and letters from Professors of the University of Nanking and American missionaries, addressed to the Japanese Embassy, which are now published by the "Daily Telegraph."…

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Sydney Shocked Lidcombe Bomb Murder "Part Of Union Fight" Another Building Bombed Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 5

Early on Friday morning a man and his wife, asleep in their Lidcombe home, were made the victims of the worst bomb outrage in Australian…

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"Cool" Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 4

"That portion of my frozen assets has been liquidated," stated Mr. F. C. Lange ruefully on Saturday. Thieves found £20 "on the ice' at Lange's city…

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548 CHARGES In Grafton Police Court 1937 Figures Released

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

In the Grafton Petty Sessions Court during 1937, 282 charge cases and 266 summons cases were dealt with, the defendant being released…

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Theft Alleged Young Man Remanded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

Charged with stealing one pair of grey trousers and one pair of suspenders the property of Leonard William Lund, valued at £176,…

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Sent to Gaol at 72

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 3

Pleading guilty at Leeds Assizes to offences against four young girls at Brighouse, Herbert Victor Hamer, 72, retired diaper, of Halifax Road,…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 4

In the following cases dealt with by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Grafton Small Debts Court yesterday, verdicts were awarded the plaintiff for the…

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Gaming Laws Newspaper Company Charged in Brisbane. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 5

Smith's Newspapers, Ltd., Sydney was charged in the Police Court to-day with having sent a copy of "Smith's Weekly" to a resident of Red Hill…

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Master Coiner Woman Assistants Police on Trail

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 4

When an elderly Pimlico woman shopkeeper accidentally dropped a two shilling piece given her by a lay, she sealed the doom of the…

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Murder Charge Alleged Admission Death Of June Clemenger Evidence of Detective Katoomba

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 5

Conversations in which it was alleged that Rowland Stewart Young (24) admitted causing the death of Miss June Clemenger (20), at…

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In Gaol Informant in Alleged Assault Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 2

The informant in a case of alleged assault heard in the Grafton Summons Court before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., yesterday was unable to be present as…

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Murder Charge Motorist In Court Death of Motor Cyclist. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 1

Bail was refused Frederick William Gray, 28, when he appeared at Redeem Police Court to-day charged with having murdered Michael Robert…

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