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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Sawn-off Gun Pointed It At Police Man Fined £50. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 5

James Collie, 43, laborer, was fined £50, in default 100 days' hard labor, when he appeared at the Central Police Court to-day, on a charge of…

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Earless Man Arrested by Police Frisco Express Smash Australians on Train Reno (Nevada)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 5

Police to-day arrested an earless man whom they had been seeking in connection with the disaster to the City of San Francisco, which plunged…

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Stealing Charge "Too Proud To Go On Dole" Magistrate's Comment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 5

"I quite understand that some people are too proud to go on the dole, but they must not steal as an alternative." said Mr. Hardwick, S.M., at the…

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Police Ball

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 1

Six hundred dancers made the annual police ball at Lismore the most successful dance of the season. The funds raised will go to local hospitals…

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Murder Charge Return to Melbourne Ordered. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 5

The return of William Henry Grosvenor, 26, to Melbourne to answer a charge of having attempted to murder Kenneth Cartledge, on July 14, was…

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Hut Demolished Aboriginal's Claim For £50 Damages District Court Action

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 3

An elderly aboriginal who was plaintiff in a suit for damages arising out of alleged trespass, which opened in the District Court, at Grafton…

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Court Cases

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 2

At the Dorrigo Court House on Wednesday, the following cases were disposed of by Mr. A. J. Bryant. P.M. COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS…

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SENTENCED Breaking And Entering Charges Hernani Post Office Hold-up

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 2

Remanded for sentence on Monday last after having pleaded guilty to two charges of breaking and entering and one of robbery while armed at Dorrigo…

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District Court Action On Behalf Of Infant Settlement Confirmed by Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 4

In the District Court, held before Judge Clancy at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, the case was mentioned in which Gordon John Fleet, of…

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"On Trial" Vivid Court Drama

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 8

More and more Hollywood is going to the legitimate stage for its scenarios these days. In the part few months no less than 32 screen attractions have…

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Changes in Police Promotion System. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 5

No fewer than 620 members of the police force will receive immediate benefit, and another 130 will benefit during the next 12 months, as the…

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Moratorium Act Application Refused District Court Judgment

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 2

Judge Clancy, in the Grafton District Court yesterday, dealt with an application by William Stanley Bain, of Woolgoolga, for an order that he be permitted…

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German Witness Police Prevent Fight Inquiry in America. Washington

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 5

The leader of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organisation, Frilz Kuhn, who was a witness before the resumed Dies Committee inquiry into…

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Director Charged Misappropriation Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 5

The hearing of 20 charges of fraudulent misappropriation from Ice Skating Palais, Ltd., against James Charles Bendrodt, managing director, was…

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Murder Charge Two Men Remanded Sequel to Shooting. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 5

Charged with the murder of Guido Caletti, on August 6. 1939, Robert Branch, alias Jackson. 31, laborer, and George Allen, alias Cave, 34, laborer,…

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Infant's Death Woman on Murder Charge. Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 August 1939 · page 5

Stella Olive Hayman was to-day committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder. The Deputy Coroner found that an…

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Darwin Police "Used As Lackeys" Seething with Discontent. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 August 1939 · page 5

Used as lackeys by the Administrator and forced to do work which they thought outside their duties, the Northern Territory police are seething…

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Traffic Cases Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 7

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., William George Llewellyn, of Mary street, Grafton, was fined 30 with 8…

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Riddle for Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 2

Two salesmen, "Mr. A" and "Mr. B," employed by rival firms of hotel brokers, parked their cars--identical in make and color--in Collins street,…

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Alleged Fraud Misappropriation Charged a Coffs Harbour Estate

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 4

At Coffs Harbour Police Court last Friday, Sidney Forrest Fowler, former solicitor of Coffs Harbour, was committed for trial by Mr. A. J. Bryant,…

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