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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 57

Man Shot at Redfern Cabaret Dying Depositions Taken Intent to Murder Charge Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 4

Suffering from wounds in the groin received when a gun was allegedly fired through a peephole of the door of The Pirates Cave Cabaret. Dowling…

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Gollan Angry "Throw Him Out" Police Assn. Secretary Powers of Mackay Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 5

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Gollan, had threatened to throw him out of his office, declared the secretary of the Police Association, Mr. Cosgrove,…

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Assault Charges Dismissed At Wollongong Police and Dalfram Dispute Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 5

Charges of having assaulted three men in the course of the Dalfram pig iron dispute, which had been preferred against a police sergeant and two…

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Coffs Police Court Fine of £7 Inflicted Failure to Destroy Banana Plants

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 3

At Coffs Harbour Police Court today, before Mr. J. Bryant. P.M., Isaac C. Amos, of Coffs Harbour, was fined £7 with 10s costs, in default 7 days'…

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Police Car's Mishap

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 7

Of all motor cars, one would expect police cars to be well behaved, but even they seem to have their tantrums, says the Newcastle "Herald." One attached…

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Murder Charge "Several Blows Struck" Accused Expresses Regret. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 5

Norman Niddrie, 29, laborer, appeared at the Central Criminal Court, to-day, charged with the murder of Michael Joseph Downing, at Tumut, on…

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80,640 Words Said in Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 4

According to an estimate made by the court shorthand writer at the end of yesterday's proceedings in the Supreme Court at Grafton, 80,640…

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Small Debts Court Verdict For Defendant

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court at Coffs Harbour Police Court to-day a case in which John Johnson had. claimed lrom S. A. Herbert Gill an amount…

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"Gun Went Off" Constable's Death Two On Murder Charge Shot in Struggle Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 5

Giving evidence in the Coroner's Court on the death of Constable Guise, 23, Sergeant Fitzgerald declared that Guise had told him he…

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Police Posse Search in Mountains New Development in Bones Mystery Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 5

Practically convinced that Gordon Robert McKay, 43, was not burned to death in the fire at Piha last month, and that he is still alive, a big fleet…

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Lawsuit Kempsey Dairy Farm Appeal To Full Court Dismissed with Costs Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 4

The Full Court heard an appeal against the judgment given by Mr. Justice Nicholas on November 21 last year in a suit for performance…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 4

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, J.P., Henry Holloway, 44, was fined £1 or three days' imprisonment, for being…

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Miner Charged Explosive Damages House. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 5

At Bendigo City Court to-day James Fairbairn (42), miner, was charged with having unlawfully and maliciously damaged a building and endangered the…

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Pyjama Girl Police Scout New Theory Albury Double Tragedy. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 5

Victorian detectives joined Detective Wilkes, of Sydney, at Walwa to-day, to continue the investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of…

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Bones Mystery Talbot Remanded Court Crowded with Spectators. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 5

James Arthur Talbot, 38, laborer, was remanded in Auckland Police Court to-day until March 30, on a charge of having improperly interfered with the…

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Cloudburst Man Drowned in Flood Police Rescue Settlers Train Held Up at Wagga Wagga

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 5

One man was drowned, many persons had to be evacuated in boats and thousands of pounds of damage was done when heavy rain struck the…

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New Publications "Murder by ELEPHANT."

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 8

From the Siamese teak forests comes a grim story of a native elephant driver who planned a terrible revenge on his white overseer. It is told in the…

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Traffic Duty for All Sydney Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 2

All Sydney's plainclothes police have been instructed that, as well as carrying ordinary duties, they are to watch for traffic breaches and "book"…

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Police Guards On Essential Services Activity in South Africa. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 6

Armed guards have been placed on power stations of the overseas cable terminus, of the city reservoir and docks…

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Murder Trial Manning River Case Dead Man's Widow Statement in Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 5

Allegations that there had been an illicit relationship between the accused were made by the Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mr. McKean, K.C., to-day,…

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