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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 49 of 57

Stealing Charge Against Station Owner "Forty Cattle Missing." Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 October 1939 · page 6

Before the Police Court to-day James Fred Smith, owner of Mount Irwin station, in the Oodnadatta district, was charged with the theft of cattle worth…

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Dubbo Murder Moss' Appeal Fails. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 October 1939 · page 6

"I have no doubt at all that the verdict was a proper one. The Crown case was a very strong one indeed," These words appeared in a report…

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"Rising of the Court."

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 October 1939 · page 4

Eric Johnson (38) pleaded guilty in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to a drunkenness charge, and was fined 5 or "the rising of the…

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Woman's Body Found Mutilated In Mail Bag Alleged Murder Hearing. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 October 1939 · page 6

Cyril William Bird related in the Ayr Police Court to-day a grim story of finding the mutilated body of a woman contained in a mail bag. The…

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Murder Serials On Radio Programmes P.M.G. Re Plies to Judge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 October 1939 · page 2

The Postmaster-General, Mr. Harrison, to-day replied to comment made by Mr. Justice Brennan, at the Maryborough Criminal Court yesterday, in…

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Czechs Celebrate Anniversary Of Republic Clashes with German Police. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 5

According to an agency report, the Gestapo took special precautions throughout Bohemia and Moravia on the anniversary of the creation of the…

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Five Arrests Assault On Constable and Car Theft Alleged. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 3

Five arrests were made by police last night and to-day as the result of investigations commenced when a motor car without a number plate was…

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Coffs Police The Additional Man

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 2

In a reply to Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., regarding his personal representations on behalf of Caffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce concerning the…

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Seeking Work Youths Cross Desert Children's Court Charges. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 3

After trudging across the desert for three days without food three 16-year-old youths pleaded guilty, before the Children's Court to 12 charges of…

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Death Sentence for Murder of Wife. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 5

Arthur John Patience was found guilty of the murder of his wife at the conclusion of the trial at Christchurch Court to-day, and was sentenced to…

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Maclean Court Fined on Three Charges

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 7

At the Maclean Police Court on Monday, Robert Graham, aged 36, pleaded not guilty to three charges of drunkenness, indecent language and resisting…

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Police Supervision For Coff's Harbor Additional Constable in Summer Months

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 1

The Chief Secretary, Mr. A. U. Tonking, writing to Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., in reply to his personal representations on behalf of the Coff's…

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Denounced As Spy Englishman In Poland war Correspondent Story Dragged From Taxi by Police. London, October 7

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 6

How an Englishman in Poland was denounced as a spy was revealed this week by William Forrest war correspondent of the…

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WAR-SCARED Lascars Desert Ship Thanked Magistrate for Sentence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 November 1939 · page 5

Thirty-three Lascar seamen clasped hands and beamed their thanks to the Magistrate in the Central Court to-day when he sentenced them to four weeks…

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EXHUMATION Of Woman's Body Request in Murder Case. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 November 1939 · page 6

So that he might be in a position to answer the theory which the police were endeavoring to establish, Mr. F. W. Paterson asked the Magistrate in…

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Forbes Case Cash Book Seized By Police Private Secretary's Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 3

Eric McConnell, former private secretary to John Woolcott Forbes, the missing financier, stated in the Central Police Court to-day, that he had…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 4

At the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., John Thomas Gillett, of Cambridge street, South Grafton, was granted a…

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Children's Court Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 4

Before Mr. h. a. Bryant, p.m., in the Children's Court at Grafton yesterday a lad aged 16 years was remanded to the court at Armidale on a…

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Military Camps Special Police Force to Keep Undesirables Out. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 5

To keep the second A.I.F. camps free from undesirables specially selected police are now stationed in the camps. They will, direct attention to…

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Wife Murder Husband Before Court Alleged to Have Used Hammer Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 4

Charged at Brisbane Police Court to-day with having murdered his wife. Bertie Alexander Warren, 30, invalid pensioner, was alleged to have…

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