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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,909 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 96

Police Reinforcements

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

PERTH, Wednesday:- This morning the Commissioner of P[?]ce (Mr. W. Douglas) left for Kalgoorlie by aeroplane and a…

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Inadequate Police Murwillumbah Expedition in New Appointments

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 2

An urgent request for expedition in the appointment of additional police in Murwillumbah to replace officers transferred and on…

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Killing of White Men Abos. Arraigned Crime Reconstructed in Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3

DARWIN, Wednesday:- The killing of Adolph Koch and Steven A[?]inski who were speared to death on the banks of the…

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Stealing Electricity

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

Eric Dudley Williams, electrician, of 51 Bent street, Bentleigh, was presented before Cheltenham (Vic.) court on a charge of having…

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Stealing Charge

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 4

At Coolangatta Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. J. C. Slaughter and W. C. Dobson, J's.P., Arthur Leslie Roberts appeared…

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Men Charged

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday:- Arising but of riots, four men, Albert Gea[?]e (27), Alan Pareria (28), James Bur[?]ill (23), and Charles Regan (30), who…

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Stock Stealing Charge Dismissed

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 2

At the Wilson's Downfall Police ..Court, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Edward Roland Moore, a grazier, in the Sandy Hill district, was…

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Wrestlers Charged Creating a Disturbance Perth

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 4

The Bench reserved its decision in the case in which Penchiff and Browning, wrestlers, were charged with having created a disturbance…

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Hindu Youths to Die Attempted Murder of Europeans

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 4

CALCUTTA, Wednesday:- Two Hindu youths, Harendra Chakravarty and Khrishna Ghoudhury, were to-day sentenced to death at Chittagong by…

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Laughed at Murder of Irishmen "Damned Falsehood," Says De Valera Hot Talk in Dail Eireann

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 2

DUBLIN, Wednesday:-"Everybody knows that it is a damned falsehood," heatedly retorted Mr. Eamon De Valera (President of the Executive Council) during a scene in the Dail Eireann to-day when Dr. T. O'Higgins (Cosgraveite)…

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Western Australian Riots Are Now at an End Police Display PERTH

Northern Star · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 7

All was quiet at Kalgoorlie and Boulder to-day and there are no fears of any further rioting. The special police…

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Support for Amy Antipathy to Non-uniformed Police

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 5

VANCOUVER, Thursday:- Several important American citizens and newspapers have espoused the cause of Mrs. Amy Mollison, who was fined for…

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Overawed By Police Riotous Miners Troopers Search for Refugees

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday:- A body of police and special constables, numbering 200, which arrived from Perth…

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Riley's Hill School Condition of Tennis Court Riley's Hill

Northern Star · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 7

At the last meeting of the Riley's Hill Parents and Citizens' Association it was stated by the secretary (Mr. R. Dwyer) that during the period that…

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Nine Months' Gaol Stealing Charges Coolangatta Accused Pleads Guilty

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 2

At Coolangatta Magistrate's Court on Saturday last, Arthur Leonard Roberts, alias John Thomas, alias Roystead, alias…

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Queensland Police "Seething With Discontent and Indignation"

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday:- As a result of the publication of police transfers and promotions on Friday, the Queensland Police Force, the secretary of the…

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Kalgoorlie Riots Foreigners Return Police Assurance PERTH

Northern Star · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 5

Following an announcement by the Commissioner for Police that the victims of the riots at Kalgoorlie and Boulder would not be…

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Welfare Farm Inquiry Adjourned "Court-martials" Leeton

Northern Star · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 5

Hector Melville, a senior officer at the Riverina Boys' Welfare Farm, gave further evidence yesterday at the inquiry by Mr…

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Shot Dead by Police German "Reds" Escape From Nazi Prison Van

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 February 1934 · page 3

BERLIN, Saturday:- Following their escape from a police van that was proceeding from Potsdam to Berlin, four well known…

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Five Years' Gaol Melbourne Bandit Sentenced

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday:- Edward Allen May (27), a boxer, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to live years gaol at the Criminal Court to-day for…

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