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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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Taree Police Court Wednesday, 7th FEBRUARY. Befoe Mr A. B. Collins, J. P. Insulting Words

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 February 1934 · page 6

James Patrick O'Brien, 40, a seaman, pleaded not guilty, to a Charge of using insulting words on the Taree park on 6th February…

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Riots in Paris Police Fire on Mob Government Resigns

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 February 1934 · page 6

The fierce resentment of a large section of Parisians against the Government owing to the maladministration disclosed by the Stavisky se[?] resulted in…

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Murder Trial Noon and Smith

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 2

At the trial at Brisbane yesterday of John Wyatt Noon, 42, farmer, and John William Smith, 23, laborer, who are charged jointly with the wilful…

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Country Police Reorganisation Planned

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 2

A reorganisation of country police stations in the north-eastern part of the State, with a view to effecting economics, has been planned, by the…

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An Audacious Theft Flock Driven 40 Miles Sold in Orange Saleyards

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 2

Police are seeking this whereabouts of two young men who are alleged to have perpetrated, one of the most during robberies of stock ever carried out in the…

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Kempsey Police Court Wednesday, 7th February, 1934. before Messrs R. W. S. Kelly and N. L. Parker, Js.P

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 3

A lengthy list was presented for hearing before Kempsey Police Court on Wednesday but the settlement out of Court of various cases and the…

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Police Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

Before Mr. R. W. S. Kelly, J.P., at the Kempsey Police Court, Leo McCafferty, charged with being drunk, was fined 5 or the rising…

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Gloucester Police Court Monday 12th FEB.—Before MR. R. DONALDSON, P.M.

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 2

The list of cases at the local police court on Monday last was not a lengthy one, though one in which the principals are Bulliac residents,…

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Country Police. Reorganisation Planned

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

A reorganisation of Country Police Stations in the North-Eastern pare of the State, with a view to effecting economies, has been planned by the…

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Murder Trial Body Thrown Into Billabong Two Men Charged Conjointly

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 4

The trial commenced before Mr Justice Macrossan and a jury on Monday of John Wyatt Noon, 42, a farmer, and John William Burgurst Smith, 23, a…

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Police Court. (Continued from another page)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 4

To Sergeant Shipway : The car pulled up near Doak's about 10 yards from the Commercial Hotel. At 2 o'clock on 13th .January, I was play…

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Police Court. (Continued from another page)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 3

I have not got it now. I don't know just what I would be doing at certain times on 14th January, nor 7th of November. Also on other dates. I…

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Police Court. (Continued from last issue). Port Macquarie, February 7. Before R. Donaldson, Esq., P.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 8

Arthur Curtis, on bail, was charged with a breach of the Gaining and Betting Act, section 5, that on 13th January he was in Horton Street,…

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Film Scene Taken in Court

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 6

Considerable excitement was caused at the Darlinghurst, Sydney, Criminal Courts the other day when, during the hearing of a case in which Dr.Everard,…

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Police Suspect Murder. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 5

In connection with the mysterious disappearance of George Nott, a well-known stock and station agent, of Pilliga, last Wednesday, the police…

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Protest Against Closing Police Stations

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 4

That the Frederickton folk are alive to the danger which will accrue to life and property from those who hold the law as of but little account…

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Police Court. Taree, Monday. February 19. (Before Mr. R. Donaldson. P.M.)

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 2

George Northam was charged with having used insulting words and pleaded guilty. Constable Webster said defendant…

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Glenore Grove Murder Both Accused Guilty Life Sentence

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 2

The jury in the Noon murder trial visited the scone of the tragedy at Glenore Grove on Thursday and the hearing was resumed later…

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Industrial Court. Taree, Monday, February 19. (Before Mr. R. Donaldson. P.m.). Baking Trade Prosecutions

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 2

Patrick Joseph Long (representing the Baking Trade Employees' Federation) proceeded against J. Bradley on a charge of baking within prohibited…

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Small Debts Court. Taree, Monday, February 19. (Before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.m.). Duke v. WILMEN

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 2

Thomas Walter Duke claimed from Herbert Leslie Wilmen the sum of £10, alleged damages arising out of an accident. There was a cross…

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