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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

2,031 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 102

Small Debts Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court at Lismore yesterday the P.M. (Mr. H. Hawkins) ordered that the sum of £6 15s paid into court be paid out to the…

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Tweed Heads Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 4

Before Mr. R. G. Collins, J.P., at Tweed Heads Court yesterday, John McDonald pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy and was sentenced to 14…

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Evidence by Police Inquest on Transport Driver

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday:--The inquest on John Thomas Demsey (39), transport driver, was continued to-day when evidence was…

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Sensational Arrest Prisoner Threatened Police MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 10

By the arrest of a man under sensational circumstances to-day, the police claim that a number of robberies during the last few weeks will…

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Robbery at Dundee Police Seek Men in Car

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

During last week-end the pose office and store at Dundee, near Deepwater, conducted by Mr. Rudolph Auguste Hartman, was broken into…

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Took Car to Brisbane Misrepresentation Alleged Court Sequel

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

James Edwin Unwin, alias James O'Grady (27), pleaded guilty in the Lismore Police Court yesterday to a charge of procuring the…

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Stolen Car Man Sentenced CASINO

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 2

At the Casino Police Court to-day Wm. Craft (23), of Cessnock, was charged with stealing, on June 30 last, a motor car valued at £99 10s,…

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Woman's Death Young Man Charged with Manslaughter

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 4

BALLINA, Tuesday.-- At a special court in the Ballina District Hospital this afternoon, Alan Holdsworth, known as Alan Nixon…

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Racing Trainer Now Magistrate Cutting Down Stable LONDON, December 27

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 8

An Australian who settled in Surrey 30 years ago, took up the training of racehorses and became known as the "Emperor of Epsom"…

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Inquest Into Unsolved Albury Murder SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 7

Surprise was occasioned to-day by an announcement that an inquest would be opened at Albury next…

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Police Buildings at Casino Casino

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 6

In reference to representations made to him concerning accommodation available at the local police station, the Premier, Mr. Stevens, in a letter to the Casino council to-night, stated that he had brought the matter under…

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Three Youths Arrested All- Night Chase by Police

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 3

GLEN INNES, Tuesday.-- An exciting all-night chase of suspected car thieves, during which several warning shots were fired from…

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Valueless Cheques Eight Charges Mur-bah Police Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 4

The story of how six Murwillumbah business men and two in Tweed Heads had been deceived into cashing valueless cheques was…

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Police Dogs Responsible for Arab's Arrest Sequel To Murder JERUSALEM

Northern Star · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 7

GOVERNMENT officials, American and British unionists, many Arabs and Jews attended the funeral of the late Mr. J. L. Starkey, leader of the British archaeological expedition, who…

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Murwillumbah Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

In the Licensing Court at Murwillumbah yesterday, before Mr. H. Hawkins, P. M., Vernon George Ramsey made application for the transfer of…

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Murder Trial Admission Alleged BRISBANE

Northern Star · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 7

"I kill my brother. I must. Every day we fight. Cutting bread he take my knife away. I shoot him with gun. I show you." According…

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Strengthening the Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 4

The Commonwealth Government's action in appointing a fifth judge to the Arbitration Court will be approved by all who have, or are…

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Arrest of Suspect Murder of British Archaeologist

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 7

JERUSALEM, Tuesday.-- Police dogs led searchers for the murderers of Mr. J. L. Starkey, the British archaeologist, to the home…

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Reinstatement of Police Cabinet Decision

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- After a meeting of the Cabinet to-day the Premier (Mr. Stevens) stated that the Cabinet had decided that…

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£10 or Two Months' Gaol Man on Two Charges At Coolangatta

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

Penalties aggregating £10,. in defaulting two months' imprisonment, were imposed on William Norton, also known as John Henry Purcell, when…

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