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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 57

Return to Work Or Cancel The Award Court to Striking Printers. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 5

Refusing to hear the claims of the strikers while they indulged in direct action. the Industrial Court to-day ordered the striking members of the…

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To Show Cause Eric Campbell, Solicitor In State Full Court Sequel to Equity Case Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 5

Charges of perjury and of being a party to the falsification of the company's minutes were alleged against Eric Campbell, a well known solicitor,…

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Sabotage Russian Sentenced to 20 Years Moscow

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 5

A sentence of 20 years was imposed on Mikhail Vosnissensky, chief wireless operator at Tranquillity Bay, in the Soviet Arctic, who was accused of…

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Police Honors for Murdered Constable. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 5

With full police honors, Constable Lionel Guise, who was fatally shot in an altercation with a suspect in Enmore on Sunday morning, was buried…

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Murder Trial The Augathella Case Accused Denies Guilt. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 4

The trial was continued to-day of Edwin Claude Helton 36, on a charge of the murder of Margaret Jane Roche, at Augathella, on September 10, 1937…

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Alleged Assault Man's Leg Broken Christmas Eve Incident At Maclean Accused Committed for Trial

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 7

A case which attracted considerable local interest, and which occupied the greater part of the Police Court sittings at Maclean on Monday, was that…

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Coal Owners Talk Of Huge Reserves in Arbitration Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 4

The exploitation of the public enabling coal mining companies to amass huge reserves was alleged by Mr. W. Orr, general secretary of the Miners'…

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Maclean Court No Passenger License Car Owner Fined £5. MACLEAN

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 7

William K. Nicholson pleaded guilty before Mr. A. J. Byrant, P.M., at Maclean Police Court, to-day, to a charge of having carried passengers in a car…

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Wrong Figures C.R.C.C. and Court Case Statement by Chairman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 4

The figures £700 or £800 given in yesterday's published report of the Clarence River County Council's deliberations on the recent court case…

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No Select Inquiry Bathurst Gaol Disturbance. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 3

Following a disturbance in Bathurst gaol some weeks ago Association made a request to the Minister for Justice Mr. Martin, that…

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Supreme Court Grafton Sittings

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 4

The Deputy Sheriff, Mr. George Morrison, has been informed that Mr. Acting Justice A. G. M. Pitt will preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court,…

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Son Sentenced Stole £66 From Father Money Belonged to Union. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 6

Found guilty of breaking into his father's house at Moonee Ponds and stealing £66, the property of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, of which…

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Sent to Gaol Refused To Disclose Name Woman Lent Him Money. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 5

Reginald Joseph Dowere, farmer of Goombooriah, near Gympie, was sent to gaol to-day for persistently refusing to disclose the name of a woman, who, he…

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Perjury Charges Eric Campbell Case Full Court Argument "Other Witness Unreliable" Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 5

Mr. Maughan, K.C. (for Eric Campbell), submitted to the Full Court today that, as his client had already been acquitted on a charge of…

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Police Patrol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

The police patrol car for the district Taree to Coffs Harbour, with headquarters at Kempsey, was in Coffs Harbour yesterday. It is in…

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Seven Years For Possessing Explosives Cycle Dealer Sentenced. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

Sentence of seven years' imprisonment was imposed on Timothy Dacey. a 30-year-old cycle dealer, for possessing explosives…

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Long Sentences for Soviet Secret Police Moscow

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

Four West Siberia members of the O.G.P.U. were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from five to 10 years, for illegally arresting 160…

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Police Patrol Two Constables Arrive Wireless on Utility

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

Constables Palmer and Anderton, the two metropolitan traffic constables appointed to patrol the main roads and highways in the Clarence River…

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Youth Missing Bloodstains On Bicycle Police Commence Search. Ballarat

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

Police are making inquiries into the strange disappearance of George Lloyd Davidson, 20, of the Miners' Rest, who failed, to return after visiting his…

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Police Chief Trapped In Cabin When Launch Capsized. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

When his launch sank after colliding with another craft at Kangaroo Point on the Hawkesbury River last night, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. J…

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