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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 57

Not Federal Officer Man Sent to Gaol. Cairns

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 5

Prosecuted under the Crimes Act, Alan Herbert' Kenna was charged at the Police Court to-day with having falsely pretended to be a…

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Press Photographer Incident At Scene Of Crash Police Exonerated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 5

"The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mackay, said he had every reason to believe that the police who were present at the scene of the Air Force…

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Asleep in Car Two Men With Guns Arrested by Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 5

Two men asleep in cars with loaded rifles across their knees were taken to a police station, when detectives swooped on a lonely bush clearing at…

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Police Busy Woolcott Forbes Case Prominent Business Men Included in Inquiries Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 4

Detectives who have been examining the documents of a public company with which John Woolcott Forbes is said to have had dealings…

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"Man Missing" Company's Affairs Petition To Wind Up Police Closed Offices Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 5

When a petition for the winding up of the Scottish Loan and Finance Co., Ltd., presented by the company itself, came before Mr. Justice Long…

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Court Sidelight

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 4

Witness in Land Board case: "I don't remember seeing the 30 m.p.h. limit sign at Ulmarra coming from Yamba.''(Subdued laughter)…

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Court Sequel

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 4

As a sequel to the sensational episode at Armidale on, Tuesday afternoon when a garage employee was allegedly menaced with a revolver and…

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Court Cases

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 2

At the local Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before the Police Magistrate, two cases under the Transport Act were dealt with…

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Penniless Youth Aided By Court Railway Pass Provided. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 5

A few minutes after a youth had been bound over by Judge Curlewis at Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of shopbreaking, court officials…

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Police Investigating Scottish Loan And Finance Co. Detectives Take Books Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 5

Acting under an order given by Mr. Justice Long Innes, in the Equity Court yesterday, an investigation of the affairs of the Scottish Loan and Finance…

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Alleged Theft Policemen For Trial Disappearance of £40. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 5

Charged at Wentworth Courthouse to-day with having stolen £40, the property of the New South Wales Public Trustee. Sergeant Cecil Roy Kirk…

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Dam "Murder" Victim Found Alive. Mildura

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 4

Frank Allan, who was thought to have been the victim of the Dumosa dam murder, was interviewed. to-day by detectives in the back country…

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Flogging Ordered Assault On Child Seven Years' Sentence. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 4

After Sentencing Leslie Towns to seven years' imprisonment for assaulting a three years old girl, Judge Blair ordered that he be flogged…

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Orara Va[?]ey News. Coff's Harbor Police Drunkenness And Indecent Language Friends Bail Estreated. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 3

At the Coff's Harbor Police Court to-day, John Thomas Pearce, of Eastern Dorrigo, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and of having used…

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£80 Bail Alleged Theft of £240. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 4

On a charge of having, on or about March 27 at Sydney, stolen from Aubrey Sara the sum of £ 240. Her-hert, Wood appeared at the Central…

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Return Tent Order By Magistrate Detention of Property Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 7

In the Grafton Court of, Betty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Thomas Henry Baker, of Alipou Creek, proceeded, against…

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Traffic Breaches Police Patrol Active

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 2

Several cases were brought before Grafton Police Court yesterday by the police traffic patrolmen. Hector Hugh Allen, of Grafton, was…

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Strong Man Assault Is Alleged Defendant in £400 Action. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 5

Admitting that he had given public exhibitions of feats of strength, such as lifting a motor car and resisting the drag of four horses pulling in opposite…

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Long Trial Ex-bank Clerk Sentenced Twelve Months . False Pretences Charge Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 5

After a trial lasting fourteen days, the longest for an individual accused at Darlinghurst Sessions, George Arthur Hadley, 20, a former bank clerk,…

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Murder Charge Remand At. Dubbo the Narromine Mystery. Dubbo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 5

When Albert, Moss (61) was again before the Police Court to-day charged with the murder of Thomas Robinson (68), pensioner, near Narromine, on or…

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