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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 51 of 57

"Excess Prices" Timber Firm Charged Sydney Prosecution. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 November 1939 · page 5

"We are not concerned whether or not this is profiteering. If it is, then it is so much the worse. We are here to administer the Act arid to see it is…

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Rothermere Wins Court Action. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 November 1939 · page 5

Judgment was given to-day for Lord Rothermere, the newspaper magnate, with costs, in the case in which the Viennese Princess Stefanie sued him…

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Constables Car Burnt In Police Yard Thought Owner Was a German Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 November 1939 · page 5

Believing the owner to be a German, whereas actually he is a Finn, a number of men smashed a lock off an iron gate giving entrance to a yard at police…

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Judge in Camp Arbitration Court Venue to Hear Climatic Allowance Claims. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 November 1939 · page 4

Judge Drake Brockman, who is also Major-General Drake Brockman, will make history on Saturday and Sunday when he will sit as a Federal…

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Murder Charge Seaman Remanded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 November 1939 · page 6

In the Central Police Court to-day. John Myers (38), seaman, was remanded on a charge of having murdered Robert Rawlinson, and having shot at…

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Timber Prices Sydney Firm in Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 November 1939 · page 6

When A. C. Saxton and Sons Pty.. Ltd., timber merchants, appeared at the Central Summons Court to-day to answer four informations alleging that…

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Price Fixing Revision Of Basis Wanted Sequel to Court Decision. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 November 1939 · page 6

An appeal to the Federal Government to revise the basis of its price fixation policy was made in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. Ware…

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Cow for the Pound Owner Prosecuted Coff's Harbor Police Court. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 6

At the Cons Harbor Police Court on Friday, November 17, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., James Robert Payne, jun.. tomato picker, of Coff's Harbor,…

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Dying in Gutter Another Darlinghurst Tragedy Man and Woman Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 November 1939 · page 4

A man and woman were charged at Darlinghurst police station in the early hours of this morning, with having murdered Don Ritchie, 45, of…

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Murder Alleged Man And Woman Charged Darlinghurst Tragedy. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 5

Charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having murdered John Scholay Ritchie, 45, at Darlinghurst, Arthur Ernest Stanton, 34 and Violet…

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Alleged Stealing Car and Petrol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 3

Raymond Jones, aged 28 years, was charged at Coffs Harbour Police Court yesterday morning with having stolen a motor car from a Kempsey…

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Shop Theft Judge's Severe Comment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 3

"For a mother your conduct was scandalous," said Mr. Arnold, S.M., addressing Vera Allwood, 38, domestic, at the Central Police Court to-day…

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Small Debts Court Cases at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 2

In the Small Debst Court, at Grafton yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant. P.M., Charles Owen Cribb, of Grafton, was sued by Eric Preston Holland and…

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Collector's Death Two Men On Murder Charge an Ex Officio Indictment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 5

Arising from the death on August 31 of Guido Calletto, who, according to the Crown case, received two bullet wounds in the stomach in a house in…

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Court Sensation Prisoner's Leap From Dock. Maryborough

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 6

Declaring that he would go down fighting, James Murray, 34, miner, who appeared on three charges at the police, court to-day, created a…

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Bank Directors Ineligible To Sit Victorian Court's Decision. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 3

The Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Mann, decided in the Practice Court to-day that Sir Walter Leitch and James Glason Gates were ineligible to…

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Small Debts Court Coff's Harbor Sitting Claim for Goods Sold

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 3

In the Small Debts Court, at Coff's Harbor on Friday, November 17, the following cases were heard before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M.--…

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Gaol and Freedom. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 November 1939 · page 5

A Thuringian woman, according to a Rotterdam report, was sentenced to eleven months' imprisonment for listening to a foreign broadcast…

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To High Court A. B. Piddington's Appeal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 November 1939 · page 5

The High Court of Australia to-day had before it the appeal of a 76 years old litigant, A. B. Piddington, K.C. and former Judge of the State Industrial…

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Push Cyclists Accident Rate Up Carelessness Alleged Traffic Police on Watch Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 November 1939 · page 5

Pedal cyclists who were killed in road accidents during the quarter ended September 30 last increased by 50 per cent., and those injured by…

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