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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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Rear Reflector Police Advice to Cyclists

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1941 · page 4

The Grafton police are giving special attention to the enforcement of traffic regulations providing for bicycles used at night to be fitted with lights and…

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Crossing Smash Claims Before Court Plaintiffs Win. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 April 1941 · page 4

Arising out of a fatal accident at Namoona level crossing, on the Kyogle road, on September 27 last, when C ci[?] O'Keefe (30) was killed, three actions…

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Doctor Charged Habitual Drunkenness. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1941 · page 4

The new medical disc[?]p[?]nary tribunal to-day heard a complaint that Dr. John Maurice Wheelihan had been guilty of habitual drunkenness between…

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Theft of Bread Three Men Fined at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1941 · page 2

Sydney Barwick (18), James Milloy (20), and Norman McCarthy (19), pleaded guilty in the Grafton Police Court yesterday before the Police…

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Sent to Cowra Big Police Reinforcement Soldiers in Hotels. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 April 1941 · page 4

Following alleged trouble in indu[?] soldiers to leave hotels at the la[?] closing time, police from Sydney 50 from country stations have…

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Film Magnate Three Years' Gaol for Tax Evasion in America. New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 April 1941 · page 5

Joseph Schenck, multi-millionaire movie executive was sentenced in Federal Court to-day to three years' imprisonment and fined 20,000 dollars…

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Woman Charged Alleged Theft of £2700. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 April 1941 · page 4

Violet Hudson, 27, was charged yesterday with having on April 19, stolen £2700 from George Henry Hill, a Queensland coalminer who won £3150…

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Attack in Street Remarkable Story to Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 April 1941 · page 3

A remarkable story of being attacked by two men who, he heard, were speaking in German, was told to the police by Frederick McGrory (31), of…

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House Ransacked Burglary In Dobie Street Police Warning to Residents

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 4

Several pounds in money were stolen from the residence of Mrs. Fuller, m Dobie street, Grafton, yesterday, when the house was broken into during the…

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Aboriginal Sentenced Entered Hotel at Maclean. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 1

George James (26), a full-blooded aboriginal, of Maclean, pleaded guilty at the Lismore Quarter Sessions today to a charge of having been found…

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Assault Charge Struck with 15lb. Dumbell. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 4

John Paradice and John Levey, better known as John Morrow, the well-known professional wrestlers, appeared in the Central Police Court to-day…

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Six Months Youth Sentenced Entered Corindi School. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 1

Herbert Earl (19), of Grafton, pleaded guilty at the, Quarter, Sessions in Lismore to-day before Judge Storkey V.C., to a charge of breaking and…

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TRESPASS Defendant Found Guilty Unlawful Entry on Neighbor's Land Lengthy Hearing in Court Yesterday

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 7

After a lengthy hearing, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, William Angus McGregor,…

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Lismore Sessions Twelve Months' Gaol False Pretences and Conspiracy. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 April 1941 · page 1

At Lismore Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Storkey, Leslie Vincent Pink, 22, showman, was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor for 12…

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Magistrate Welcomed Mr. R. M. Stewart at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 May 1941 · page 3

Prior to the commencement of the sitting at the Maclean Police Court on Wednesday, a welcome was extended to Mr. R. M. Stewart, the newly…

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MACLEAN Court of Petty Sessions Found on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 May 1941 · page 8

At the Maclean Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, Police Magistrate, John Pritchard, George Clarence Want…

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Found Shot Was to Have Appeared in Court. Gosford

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 May 1941 · page 4

William Alfred Stevenson was found shot early to-day, when he was due to appear at the Gosford Court. Charges against him were for having…

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Gaol for Life Convicted of Murder. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 May 1941 · page 4

James Callaghan, 60, boring engineer, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment at Cunnamulla yesterday, for murder…

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Boy Arrested Charge of Murder. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 May 1941 · page 1

Police yesterday arrested a 15-year-old boy and charged him with the murder of William Thomas Halse (77), a bootmaker, of North Adelaide…

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REMANDED Alleged Theft Defendant to Appear in Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 May 1941 · page 3

Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, William Bruce Mayne was charged with having stolen a military…

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