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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

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Beer War Brewers Appeal to Court Injunction Issued

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday--Richmond beer, which is brewed in Melbourne, has threatened to become popular in Sydney. Sydney brewers to-day took the…

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Upper House High Court Appeal Parliaments' Powers Counsel's Argument Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 7

The N.S.W. Legislative Council abolition appeal case came before the High Court to-day The Bench consisted of the Acting Chief…

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Upper House Appeal Opened.. Before High Court Dr. Evatt Not on Bench Argument for Crown

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:-- The N.S.W. Legislative Council abolition appeal case came before the High Court to-day. The bench…

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Casino Police Court

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 9

On Tuesday at Casino Police Court, before Mr. C. J. M. Hade, chamber magistrate, and Mr. R. V. Carroll, J.P., Sunday trading licenses were granted…

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Police Court Straying Stock

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 2

Before Mr A. E. Mahoney, P.M. at the Police Court yesterday, James Bridger charged with having allowed 6 horses and 1 beifer to stray on…

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Brutal Murder Paris Love Tragedy

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday:--Marguerite Buttin met a horrible death at Lille at the hands of her [?]over, Alphonse Mazancourt, 46, who struck her head…

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Treble Murder; Suicide West Australian Horror Coroner's Finding

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 2

PERTH, Wednesday.-- The inquest concluded to-day concerning the death of Mrs. Eva Trnada MacCaskell (26), Wm. Halbert (18), farm hand, and…

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Court Martial Trouble on British Submarine

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Following the occurrence on the submarine depot ship Lucia, when a number of men refused to work on Sunday, Able Seaman H…

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Court Reserves Judgement Upper House Appeal Case

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:--The High Court to-day resumed the hearing of the appeal of the Lang Government regarding the…

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High Court Leader Who Will be Appointed?

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:--The Federal Cabinet will at its meeting in Melbourne on Friday next consider the question of the appointment of the…

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Startling Find Young Girl in Opium Den Sydney Police Raid

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday:--The police last night continued their war on opium smokers. They forced their way into a den in…

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Mullumbimby Police Court Cases

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 8

At Mullumbimby Police Court on Wednesday before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., James Bridger pleaded guilty to a charge of having allowed to stray…

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Police Court Mullumbimby Cases Straying Stock Prosecution Dangerous Driving

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 2

At Mullumbimby Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., James Bridger was charged with having, on September 5, 1930, allowed…

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Woman Charged Alleged False Pretences

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--At the Central Police Court to-day, Daisy Ida Wheeler (40) was remanded on the charge of having obtained money from…

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Woman Charged Alleged False Pretences SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 3

Detectives last night arrested a woman and charged her with having obtained £250 from Mrs. McDougall, wife of the late Senator McDougall,…

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Brutal Murder Woman Battered to Death

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--Julia Wallace, wife of an insurance agent, was brutally murdered at Liverpool while her husband was decoyed from the…

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Behind the Scenes Baffling German Murder

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 2

BERLIN, Wednesday.--Three thousand spectators at the great Mercedes Film Palace were watching a murder drama on the screen while behind the…

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Elderly Chinaman Dies. Murder Charge. Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 4

An elderly Chinese, Dan Lop, who was admitted to Bathurst Hospital on November 30th. with a bullet wound in his back, died yesterday…

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French Justice Again 5 Years Too Severe for Murder

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 3

PARIS, Wednesday:--The proverbial uncertainty of the jury system was illustrated at the Seine Assizes. A stonemason named Thill…

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Police Escort Shearers for Queensland BRISBANE

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 7

Escorted by four police officers about 50 shearers from New South Wales arrived at Warwick in the mail train to-day en route to Springsure,…

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