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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,268 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 55 of 64

Man Sent to Gaol "A Menace to Residents.". Kyogle

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 November 1938 · page 4

In the police court, Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., sentenced Frederick Alfred Brice, 50, to three months imprisonment on a charge of having assaulted William…

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Jewellery Theft Rings-watches "Smash-Grab" Methods Daring Brisbane Raid Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 November 1938 · page 5

Diamond rings, wristlet and pocket watches, worth nearly £200, were stolen in a daring smash and grab raid on a show window at Isaacs'…

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Poison Symptoms Italian Woman's Death Police Investigating. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 November 1938 · page 5

Police are investigating the death of Mrs. Amelia Coppo, an Italian woman, of Blacktown, who died in the Parramatta Hospital to-day after…

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Double Murder? Aunt and Niece Bodies In Bedroom Shocking Melb. Tragedy Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 November 1938 · page 5

The bodies of an elderly spinster and her attractive 17-year-old niece were found dead in a brick villa where they lived at the corner of…

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German Jews to Pay £80,000,000 Nazi Decree for Paris Murder Riot Insurance Payments Forfeited to Govt. Crushing Bans on Jewry. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 November 1938 · page 5

Field-Marshal Goering has issued a decree under which German Jews will be fined one thousand million marks, the equivalent of £80,000,000,…

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Police Visit Ulong Storekeeper In Court Alleged Sale of Liquor Without License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 4

While a dance was in progress at Ulong on Saturday night, Inspector J. F. McNeill, Sergeant E. G. Druitt, of Grafton, and other policemen…

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Three Acquitted Assault and Robbery Charges Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 5

Without waiting for counsel for the defence to complete his address, a jury at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day returned a verdict of not guilty against…

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Six Months' Gaol Posed As Ambulance Collector Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 5

Pleading guilty at North Sydney Police Court to-day to three charges of imposition. William Stanton, 40, was sentenced to six months' gaol…

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Aborigines in Court Drunk on "Metho."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 3

Dick Ferguson, a well-known aborigine, of Coutts' Crossing, accompanied by another abo., Edward Lardner, appeared before Mr. C. H. Blackmore…

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No Motive Melb. Double Murder Detectives Puzzled Valuables Not Touched Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 5

Inquiries by detectives to-day into the death of Miss Annie Wiseman, 62, and her niece, Phyllis Wiseman. 17. who was strangled at the former's…

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Divorced Couple in Bigamous Marriages Puzzle For Judge Divorce Court Disclosures Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 5

Some extraordinary features were associated with a case heard by Mr. Justice Boyce, in the Divorce Court to-day…

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Alleged Fraud Bank Clerk Charged Remarkable Court Story "Non Existent 'Accounts" Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 November 1938 · page 4

A remarkable story of an alleged attempt to defraud a bank of hundreds of pounds was unfolded in the Quarter Sessions, to-day, by Mr…

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£1003 Stolen Bank Clerk Sentenced. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 November 1938 · page 4

Edward Ernest Coope, 29, bank clerk, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in the Criminal Court today on a charge of having, as a servant…

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Woman Shot Man Charged in Brisbane. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 November 1938 · page 5

Overcome by emotion several times while giving evidence, Mrs. Ethel Mitchener, at the Police Court to-day, told how she was shot at Wollongabba,…

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No Clue Melbourne Murder. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 November 1938 · page 5

Nothing has been discovered during the inquiries into the Glenroy tragedy to justify the hope that the crime will be solved in the near future…

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Melb. Murders "Missing" Man in Gaol. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1938 · page 2

After searching throughout yesterday and last night for a man who they believed, might help materially in solving the Glenroy murders, the police,…

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Court Days Changed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 November 1938 · page 4

Changes in the sittings of the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions have been announced. The new arrangement, which will take effect from December…

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Coramba Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 November 1938 · page 1

At Coramba Pplice Court on Monday last, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Edward Haydon was fined £5 and 8s costs on a charge of indecent…

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"Murder in Greenwich Village" Drama in Bohemia

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 November 1938 · page 10

Every great metropolis has its Bohemian population. Paris has its Latin Quarter, London its Soho and New York its Greenwich Village…

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Glenroy Murders Police Stoll Seeking Clue. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 November 1938 · page 4

Scientific tests of various articles from the house in which Miss Annie Wiseman, 62, and her niece, Phyllis Wiseman, 17, were murdered, at…

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