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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 42 of 57

Tenterfield Murder Deputation to Minister. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 5

The Minister for Justice. Mr. Treatt, to-day gave a deputation no indication that John Trevor Kelly would not be hangad for murder on Thursday, but…

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Murder Verdict Prisoner Certified Insane Stone Cutter's Death. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 5

Now certified insane. Jack Tanner was found to have feloniously and maliciously murdered Anthony O'Brien, 46, stone cutter, at Malabar, on July…

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To Be Paid Out of Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 4

The Magistrate ordered that £124 paid into court in the matter of Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., v. H., W. Biffin (Clarence River Pioneer…

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Police Boys' Club

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 1

A proposal is afoot in Lismore to form a Police Boys' Club, affiliated with the New South Wales Federation of Police Boys' Clubs, following an…

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Drama in Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 4

Wallsend Court had a note of drama when an Italian, Pasquale Guiffie, 42, was joined by his wife and friends, immediately after their arrival from…

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Humor at Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 4

There was a touch of comedy about the early business at Newcastle Police Court on Friday. The name of a person charged with drunkenness as a first…

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Darwin Police Air Their Complaints Reply to Administrator. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 5

Despite denials by the Administrator, Mr. Abbott, that they had been called upon to perform duty not ordinarily associated with that of the police, a…

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Kelly's Fate Appeal in Parliament Tenterfield Murder "Insanity in Family Law to Take Its Course. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 5

An appeal to the Government not to carry out the death sentence imposed upon John Trevor Kelly was made by the Leader of the Opposition,…

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Alleged False Pretences Remand to Kogarah Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 August 1939 · page 3

In the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Messrs C. H. Blackmore and D. J. Shaw, Js.P., Reginald Douglas Vitnell, who appeared…

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Floods in Victoria People Refuse To Leave Homes Police Perform Difficult Task. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 August 1939 · page 4

Although they run the risk of being drowned, police are experiencing great difficulty in persuading people to leave their, riverside homes in the flooded…

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Accused Sentenced Hernani Hold-up Echo Two Other Charges

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 4

Three charges, two of breaking and entering and one of armed robbery were brought against John MacIntyre in the Grafton Quarter…

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Coatless in Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 10

" I won't speak again about this matter. I shall deal, with the next person who appears in court without a coat," Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., told, a…

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Kelly Hanged At Long Bay Gaol Calm to the End Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 4

Walking calmly on to the gallows John Trevor Kelly, 24. was hanged at Long Bay Gaol to-day for the murden of Miss Sommerlad at Tenterfield…

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Artilleryman's Cup Recovered Bt Police . MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 6

Searching a house at Clifton Hill today detectives recovered the Melbourne Cup won by Artilleryman in 1919. The cup disappeared from the, Melbourne…

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Still in Hospital Witness In Police Court. Case Feloniously Slaying Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1939 · page 3

A further adjournment of four weeks was granted by the Police Magistrate (Mr. A. J. Bryant) in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions when Cuthbert…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1939 · page 2

In the Grafton Small Debts Court, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., yesterday. an amount of £2156 paid into court in the matter of Bennett and…

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Murder Charge the Cowra Tragedy. Cowka

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1939 · page 3

At Cowra Police Court to-day Joseph Arthur Andrews 54, appeared on a charge of having murdered James Henderson, who died, the police stated…

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Nazi Police Attacks On Poles in East Prussia. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1939 · page 5

It is officially stated German police have surrounded the Polish Consulate at Marienwarder, East Prussia, and prohibited egress and regress and…

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Man with Camera "On Military Land" Charge at Manly Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1939 · page 4

A charge of having trespassed [?]on military land at North Head was preferred aganist Gilbert Percy Whitley, fish authority of the Australasian…

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PRISONERS Attack I.R.A. Convicts Incident in Dartmoor Gaol. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 5

In the course of a parade at Dartmoor prison a number of convicts rushed and injured eleven members of the I.R.A. who had expressed pleasure at…

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