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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,937 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 97

Wealthy Japanese Dies in Soviet Gaol

Tweed Daily · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 3

TOKIO, Saturday:—Resentment has been aroused by news of the death of Daiji Takahashi, a Japanese shipping magnate of Vladivostok, while…

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Police Investigating Finding of Body BRISBANE

Northern Star · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 11

The Mackay police are investigating the discovery of a man's body yesterday by the side of a mountain range 15 miles west of Sarina…

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Arabs Ambush Police Chief's Car Jerusalem

Northern Star · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 6

Arabs ambushed along the NablusJerusalcm road during the night a car in which were Sir Charles Tegart, police chief in Palestine, Major G…

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Police Satisfied Missing Woman Not Murdered SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 11

The police are now satisfied, after nine months of investigation, that Mrs. Florence Evelyn Lusted (45), who disappeared from Medlow Bath in March…

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New Year Honours Lists Announced Knighthood for High Court Judge Canberra

Northern Star · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 10

KNIGHTHOODS for Mr. Justice Starke, of the High Court, Mr. Reginald Marcus Clark, of Sydney, the Commonwealth Solicitor-General (Mr. G. S. Knowles) and Dr. John Ramsay, of…

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Soviet Court Fines British Engineer Charged with Illegally Entering Russia

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 8

MOSCOW, Sunday:—The British engineer, Brian Grover, who was arrested at Stattza on November 20 after flying from Stockholm in a sports…

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Remanded on Assault Charge

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 10

Harry James sfmith (27) appeared in the Lismore Folice Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P., on a charge of occasioning actual bodily…

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Italian on Murder Charge

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 6

MACKAY, Monday:—Following the discovery of the body of a man on a lonely mountain slope west of Sarina, Michel Frisina (40), an Italian, was…

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Peru Officials Charged With Nazi Methods

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 8

NEW YORK, Sunday:—Cabling from Chile, the New York "Times" special correspondents, who covered the Pan-American…

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Persistent Story of Assault on Nazi Leader London

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 9

The "Daily Mirror," persisting in the story that Dr. Goebbels was assaulted while visiting the flat of an actress, predicts that the Ministry of propagandah…

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Italian Remanded on Murder Charge Brisbane

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 2

Michele Fresina (40), an Italian, was remanded to January 10 at the Mackay Police Court to-day on a charge of having wilfully murdered…

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Police Search for Motor-cycle Bandits Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 2

The police are searching for a new type of bandits, whom they have been informed ran down a cyclist with their, motor-cycle and sidecar and…

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Eight Hours Speech Cabman's Wife in Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 7

Mrs. Borders, a cabman's wife, who is fighting a building' society ever the possession of her house in West Wickham, Kent, finished…

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Man on Murder Charge After Death of Brother-in-law Narrandera

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 1

Ernest Hough (44), a dairy farmer, was remanded at a special sitting of the Narrandera Court to-day on a charge of having murdered his brother-in-law, Daniel Moon (48), an orchardist. Police evidence was given to the…

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Young Man Charged Driver's Evidence

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

Walter George Noble (20) appeared on remand at the Lismore Police Court yesterday on a charge of illegally using a motor…

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Charged With Blowing Up Freezing Works ADELAIDE

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 9

Lawrence Henry Bulling, a rabbit carter, aged 40, was arrested-at Mt. Gambier to-day and charged with having on Saturday last blown up the local…

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Long List of Goods Involved in Nineteen Charges of Stealing

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 2

Nineteen charges, the majority of which related to alleged stealing and of having goods reasonably suspected of having been stolen in his possession, were preferred against Arthur Sydney Farlow (28), in the Lismore Police Court yesterday…

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Tweed Heads Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

At Tweed Heads Police Court, before Mr. R. G. Collins, J.P., yesterday, Sidney H. Dunkley and Cecil Eodds were each fined 10/, in default…

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Five Executed in Moldavia Charged with "Framing" Innocent People

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 8

LONDON, Monday:—The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that five leading officials of the Moldavian Autonomous…

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Souvenir Hunter Fined: Admonished by Magistrate Wellington (N.z)

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 3

Climbing the mizzenmast of the German barque Kommodore Johnson at midnight, while it was at anchor at New Plymouth, Villiam Emmett…

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