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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

2,031 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 102

Lidcombe Bomb Outrage Other Explosions Not Connected by Police SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 7

Detectives who are investigating the Lidcombe bomb explosion in which Alfred Ernest Smith and his wife lost their lives have been informed that…

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Newspaper Charged Court Hearing in Brisbane Adjourned BRISBANE

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 8

Smith's Newspapers Ltd., of Sydney, were charged at the Police Court today with having sent a copy of "Smith's Weekly" to a resident of Red Hill,…

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Stealing Charge Schoolboy's Loss Casino

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 3

At the Casino Police Court to-day Patrick Buckley (20) and Keith Walters (19), both of Sydney, were fined £2 and ordered to pay £1 each…

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Man Fined Assault on Female CASINO

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 3

At the Casino Police Court to-day, Albert Layton (35), an aborigine, was aged £2 or, in default, four days hard labour on a charge of unlawfully…

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Four Months' Gaol Jew Who Smashed Window In Vienna

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 6

VIENNA, Sunday:— Four months' gaol has been awarded to a Jew named Michael Levenschuss, who smashed a window in the German official tourist…

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Alleged Breach of Betting Act Newspaper and Manager Charged

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday:— Smith's Newspapers Ltd. and the company's Queensland manager, A. D. McKay, were charged on summons in the…

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Alleged Murder and Suicide Dusky Killer Known at Coraki

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

At Fingal, a little village on the Tweed, Chris Walker, 37, a three-quarter caste abo, living apart from his colored wife, Doris Dolly Lena, went to…

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Australia's First Court Case Sailor's Claim Failed

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

A sailor sued a woman convict for clothing in the first civil case in the "colony" of Australia, Mr. Justice Evatt told the Australian Law…

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Fewer Betting Tickets Ballina Court Cases Ballina

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 10

An increase of 25 in the number of charges heard at the Ballina Petty Sessions Court is shown in the return prepared by the Clerk of Petty…

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Unusual Murder Charge Remand at Redfern Court SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 9

Bail was refused Frederick William Gray (28) when he appeared at the Redfern Police Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Michael…

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Alleged Murder of Motor Cyclist Car Driver Remanded

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: — Allegations that the accused men had made three attempts in a motor car to run down a motor cyclist were made by the…

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Doctor Charged Alleged To Have Driven Car While Under Influence SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 5

Dr. Noel Louis Fox. (25), of Coramba, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having driven a car while under the…

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Stealing Charges

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 4

At Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Dennis James O'Shea (18), was remanded till Wednesday next on two charges of…

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Silksworth's Officer Sentenced Hong Kong

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 8

The Japanese quartermaster of the steamer, Silksworth, on which mutiny occurred, was sentence to 12 weeks' hard labour for assaulting a Japanese…

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Youth Committed; Murder Charge Adelaide

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 10

Ronald Albert Sharpe (16) was committed, for trial at Millicent today at an inquest into the death of Katherine Theresa Bradley (54), on…

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Murder Charge Aged Man Found Dead Wellington (N.z.)

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 9

Randall Reginald David Smith (26) was charged at Timaru to-day with the murder of William Gaby, aged 70, at Arundel, on September 10. Gaby…

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Murder of French Taxi Driver

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

PARTS, Wednesday: -- A taxi driver who was murdered on the outskirts of the city was found with a note beside the body reading, "The Czar…

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Assault and Robbery Constable the Victim. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 5

Hedley Gibson (33), William Thomas Dillon (27), and John Thomas McMullen (26) pleaded not guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to a charge of…

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German Police Dissolve Catholic Bodies

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

BERLIN, Wednesday: -- The police have dissolved the Catholic Young Men's organisations at Cologne and Aachen en charges of breaking the…

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Alleged Murder of Wife Railway Employee for Trial

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday: -- William Hercus Findlay (37), railway employee, residing at Swansea, was to-day committed for trial…

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