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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

2,102 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 106

Terrorist Trial Concluded 12 Sentenced WARSAW

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

Violent scenes marked me conclusion of the trial of 12 Ukranian terrorists who allegedly organised the plot, which resulted in the…

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Double Murder Charge Man Committed For Trial

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday:—At the conclusion of the inquiry conducted by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Clark) at Parramatta to-day into the…

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Double Murder Charge Relief Worker For Trial SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

Percival Henry Thomson (55), relief worker, was committed for trial on a charge of murder at the conclusion of an inquest by…

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Aborigine on Murder Charge Female Abo. Body Exhumed by Torchlight

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 6

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday: — A charge of wilful murder of a female aborigine, Mollei Huddy (30), was preferred against an aborigine…

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Tweed Heads Police Statistics Fewer Cases; More Public Monies

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 3

The annual figures compiled by the police at Tweed Heads for 1935 show a decrease in Petty Session cases of 20 compared with the previous year…

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Charge of Stealing Man Fined Murwillumbah Court Cases

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 9

When charged yesterday at Murwillumbah Police Court with stealing a watch to the value of 86, the property of Edward Hill,…

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Two Men for Trial Murder Charge Women Led From Court, Sobbing

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) to-day found that Leslie Arthur Paterson (34), barrowman, of Willoughby, had…

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Heavy Fines For Bunchy Top Neglect Magistrate's Warning Future Cases

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 4

Following numerous convictions recorded yesterday at Murwillumbah Police Court for failure to treat and destroy…

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Murder of Vicar Detectives May Visit Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday:— A message from Melbourne yesterday stated a communication from the Brisbane police had led the Victorian…

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Drover and Assistants Missing Murder or Death From Thirst Feared

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 5

PERTH, Wednesday:— The Commissioner of Police to-day received a telegram from Inspector Carroll, of Broome, stating that the…

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Japan Withdraws From Conference Inquiry Into Death of Man Murder Charge SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 7

Alleged to have caused the death of the deceased, Reginald Davies, (40), a labourer, and James Geddes (23), a clicker, who have been…

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Funeral Stopped by Police Death Due to Excess of Drugs ?

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 8

The funeral of a man, whose body was removed from Hastings to London while police were making inquiries concerning his death, was…

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Menace of Rabbits Warning By Magistrate

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 7

"The attitude of the P.P. Board is bat the rabbit is a menace, and that very individual owner or landowners must do his best to eradicate the pest,…

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Attempted Gaol-break Parramatta "Lifer" Punished

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday:--Kenneth Farlow, the life-sentence prisoner, who tried to bluff his way out of Parramatta Gaol with a wooden "revolver."…

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AMUSEMENTS "Murder in the Fleet"

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

Laughs and thrills blend, and excitement, romance and comedy run rampant in "Murder in the Fleet," to be screened at the Memorial…

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Murder of Vicar Special Brisbane Inquiry Denied

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday:--Officials of the C.I.B. to-day denied the Brisbane report that a special inquiry was being made in that capital in…

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Abo. on Murder Charge "Cried When Shown Dead Body"

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--The tragedy at Fantome island, in the Palin Island Aboriginal Settlement, on Sunday, had a sequel in the Police Court…

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Tenterfield Police Court TENTERFIELD

Northern Star · Saturday 18 January 1936 · page 9

Roy James Morgan was charged at Tenterfield Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., with offensive behaviour, to which he…

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Murder Suspected Trapper's Belongings PERTH

Northern Star · Saturday 18 January 1936 · page 14

Natives belonging to the Drysdale River Mission have brought in a revolver and other belongings of Robert Anderson, dingo trapper, who was…

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Convict Breaks Parole Second Escape From Darwin Gaol

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 8

DARWIN, Saturday:--Breaking parole at the Fanny Bay Gaol, Darwin, late yesterday, Clive Robert Stewart (26), prisoner, escaped into the thick…

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