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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

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Court Attacked Wages Reduction Mr. Theodore's Outburst Nationalists Blamed

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday-- Speaking at Summer Hill in support of Mr. M. Martin, Labor candidate for Parkes, Mr. Theodore described the…

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Armed Police Guard Station Arrival ol N.S.W. Shearers. Strikers Stone Cars

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Thirty police, armed with rifles and revolvers, paraded Springsure station on Saturday morning when a…

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Bitter Attack on Federal Court Basic Wage Decision Theodore Hits Out Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

Declaring that the Judges had been "put there to do a job, and were doing it," Mr. Theodore on Friday night delivered a…

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Woman Alleges Assault Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 9

Darlinghurst police are investigating a woman's strange story of how she was assaulted in Moore Park on Friday night…

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British Murder Public Mind Shocked One of Most Terrible Crimes Expert's Examination

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.--The examination conducted by Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Govt. Pathologist) of Louise Maud Steele, whose body…

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Lismore Police Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 8

At Lismore Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., Percy Green (44), electing summary jurisdiction and pleading guilty, was…

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Liquor Cases Murwillumbah Police Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 6

Daniel Higgins, for whom Mr. A. A. R. Hynes appeared, pleaded guilty in Murwillumbah Police Court yesterday before Mr. W. F. Britz P. M…

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Newtown Murder Police Inquiries Fruitless Revenge the Motive?

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday--Frank De Luce, a friend of Guiesepe La Spina, the Italian who was murdered at Newtown yesterday morning, said to-day he…

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Local and General Tweed Heads Police Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

At Tweed! Heads Police Court yesterday, William Street (59), pleaded, guilty to behaving, in an offensive manner in Wharf Street, Tweed Heads, and…

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Sent to Gaol Valueless Cheques a Murwillumbah Case

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

George Sturges (57) appeared before Mr. W. F. Blitz, P.M., in Murwillumblah Police Court yesterday to answer charges of obtaining money…

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The Italian Murder. No Clues So Far

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Fraud de Luca, a friend of Guiseppe la Spina, the Italian who was murdered in Newtown yesterday morning, said to-day that he…

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Murder Trial Unknown Victim Blazing Car Mystery London

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 9

The trial of Arthur Rouse, who is charged with the murder of an unknown man whose body was found in Rouse's blazing car, opened at…

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"Tricked the Workers" Arbitration Court Attacked

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- The Federal President and State Secretaly of Australian Railways Union (Mr. Chapman), in an interview last night,…

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Chapter 22. Detectives and Police on the Trail

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 13

Excitement still reigned in Bowdart over the murder, for the people were ignorant of the conspiracy against McClintock, and there were varied…

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Local Statistics. Casino Police District. Stock and Crops

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

The following figures from the Casino police patrol district for 1929 show that in the Casino district during the year ending 30th December, 1929, there…

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Arbitration Court " Instrument of Defeat " Recent Wage Cut Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 5

The Federal president and State secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. Chapman) in an interviewlast night declared that the decision…

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Federal Awards A.C.T.U. Proposal Disregarding Court Order Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 5

At a meeting of the interstate executive of the A.C.T.U which is being held in Sydney on Thursday an effort will be made to induce the Government…

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Wage Reduction Appeal to Government Disregard Court's Order A.C.T.U. PROPOSAL

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday:--At a meeting of the inter-state executive of the A.C.T.U., which is being held in Sydney on Thursday, an effort…

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Gruesome Murder Four Aborigines Arrested

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

DARWIN, Wednesday.-- Four aborigines hae been arrested on the charge of murdering an 8-year-old native child, whose body was found on…

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Anonymous Letter Murder of Mary Dean

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wedn[?]ed[?]y.--Superintendent Walsh received an anonymous letter signed "one who knows," suggesting that for £5 he would give…

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