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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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"Frame Up?" Charge Against Laborer Allegation in Police Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 5

It was suggested at the Burwood Police Court to-day that a charge against a 20-year-old laborer was a "frame up" by his wife's relatives in a…

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Murder Charge Husband Acquitted Scenes at Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 September 1941 · page 4

When the jury at the Central Criminal Court to-day acquitted Richard James Duckworth, 40, of murdering his wife, Doris Duckworth at Surry…

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Strike Ballot Application to Court Textile Industry Hold-Up Hearing on Thursday Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 September 1941 · page 4

Notice was given in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day by the New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures of an application for a…

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Police Escort When Escaping From Husband Tweed Woman Granted Divorce. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 September 1941 · page 2

The allegation that her husband had broken up all their furniture and crockery at Murwillumbah in August. 1937. and that the police had given her an…

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More Join in the Textile Strike Move By The Court Latest Developments Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 September 1941 · page 4

The latest developments in the textile strike are an intimation by Judge O'Mara to-day that the Arbitration Court would to-morrow consider the…

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Blitzed' Royal Autographs Made Readable Again by London's Police Chemists

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 6

Signatures of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria in a book reduced to aches by Nazi incendiary bombs have been made legible again by a…

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Textile Strike Court Hearing Adjourned Pending Decision of Meeting. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 5

Pending the decision of the A.C.T.U. meeting on Saturday night, the hearing of the Arbitration Court's motion to peg wages in the textile industry…

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Italian Ship Seized In Fremantle order of court. PERTH

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 3

Sitting as a Colonial Court of the Admiralty, the Chief Justice Sir John Northmore, to-day condemned the former Italian motor ship, Remo, and…

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Revision Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 4

The Town Clerks of Grafton and South Grafton, and Shire Clerks of Nymboida and Copmanhurst Shires and the Acting Shire Clerk of the Orara…

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Articles Found by Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 4

During the week-end the Grafton police found a leather purse containing a note in front of Roger and Co.'s butcher shop in Prince street. A grey…

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Coramba Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 6

An interesting case in which customs adopted in the milling trade were the only guidance for the court's decision was heard at the Coramba Small Debts…

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Coramba Court a Timber Claim

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 3

Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., had to depend mainly upon custom in making his decision in an interesting timber case before him. at Coramua…

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Intent to Murder Charge Against R.A.A.F. Member. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 7

In the Parramatta Police Court today a member of the R.A.A.F., Jack Andrews. 25, was charged with wounding his wife, Mary Ellen Andrews, with…

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WINDING-UP Enemy-Owned Company Equity Court Application. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 5

In the Equity Court to-day, Mr. Justice Nicholas ordered the winding up of an enemy-owned company in Australia, the Italia Shipping Co., Ltd…

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Death by Gas Two Suicides In Sydney Evidence in Coroner's Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 5

The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, returned a finding of suicide to-day when inquiring into the death of Norman Roy Bremner, who was found unconscious…

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Northern Police Chief

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 4

Superintendent Second-Class George Gilbert Ferguson on Monday, at Tamworth, took over the charge of the northern police administrative district…

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Murder Charge Husband On Trial Allegations by Crown. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 6

During the trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day of Francis Joseph Patrick Kelly, 47, laborer, charged with having murdered his…

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Woman Attacked On North Coast Mail Assailant Jumps From Train Police Detain Suspect. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 5

A middle-aged man who was found sleeping under a bush near the railway track between Hawkesbury and Wandabine has been detained,…

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Rector Charged Assault Is Alleged Case at Canberra. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 5

Allegations that Rev. Archdeacon C. S. Robertson, rector of Canberra, attacked and punched him in a bedroom of a Canberra guest house, were made…

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Radio Tuned To Police Broadcasts Allegations in Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 5

Detectives said in the Central police Court to-day that after arresting three men they went to a house where a woman was lying beside a radio tuned…

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