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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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Coff's Harbor Police Court Offensive Behaviour At Woolgoolg'a Noisy "Send-off Party."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1941 · page 3

The following cases were heard before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at the Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday last…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1941 · page 4

When the hearing of an action brought by Alfred Earl Everingham, of North Street, Grafton, against Lester Thompson, of Coff's harbor for an…

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Licensing Court Removal of Wine License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1941 · page 8

In the Quarterly Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., an application by Peter Mathieson for the removal of an…

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Woman on Bond Not To Speak For Five Years Assault on Another Woman. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1941 · page 5

Convicted at the Quarter Sessions today of having assaulted Miss Irene Mary Enfield. Mrs. Olga Bingham was released on £40 bond…

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Called As Witness Stipendiary Magistrate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1941 · page 7

The calling of Mr. Farrington, S.M., as a witness in the Central Police Court to-day was described as a most reprehensible practice and likely to…

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50 Die for Nazi Murder Hostages In France Big Train Smash London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1941 · page 5

It is announced in Vichy that 50 hostages were shot at Nantes, in occupied France, in a reprisal for the assassination of the German, Lieut…

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£2590 in Fines Pakapoo Raid In N.Z. Sixty Police Take Part. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1941 · page 5

Forty-five Chinese arid five Europeans were fined a total of £2590 in Wellington Police Court to-day for offences arising out of playing…

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Editor Charged Betting on Last Race. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1941 · page 2

At the Central Summons Court to-day Frank Vincent McGuinness, editor of the "Daily Mirror," pleaded not guilty to an information alleging that he…

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War Loading For Drinking More Beer Latest Claim in Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1941 · page 4

Tradesmen have received a war loading grant for drinking more beer and creating more work for carpenters and joiners, it was stated in the…

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Gaol Sentence Theft From Penneys' Store

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1941 · page 3

In the Grafton-Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before the Police Magistrate, Mr. R. M. Stewart, John Hughes, 62, laborer, pleaded guilty…

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French Police Assist Germans Search For Assassins More Executions London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1941 · page 5

French police at Nantes to-night are helping the Germans to systematically comb out the inhabitants in an effort to find the assassins of…

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Murderer Escape From Gaol Scaled Three Walls Man Hunt at Bathurst Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 October 1941 · page 4

Eric Ronald Craig, a 34-year-old convicted murderer, escaped from Bathurst Gaol this afternoon. Craig was returning with other…

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Police Witness Ill

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1941 · page 4

As the principal police witness was ill, the hearing of a charge against Cecil Gordon Gray that being the driver of a motor vehicle, he did not…

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Craig Recaptured Bathurst Gaol Escapee Found Walking Along Road. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1941 · page 5

After 15 hours' liberty Eric Roland Craig, who yesterday escaped from Bathurst Gaol where he was serving a life sentence, was recaptured at 6…

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"Covering Up" Politicians Charged Papers Handed To Curtin New Turn in Secret Fund Inquiry Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1941 · page 5

After almost a full fortnight's evidence and addresses in Sydney, the Royal Commission investigating the Commonwealth Secret Fund…

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Additional Police South Grafton Request Departments Reply Extra Man Not Justified

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1941 · page 3

A reply received by the South Grafton Municipal Council from the Chief Secretary's Department sets out that there appears to be no justification for the appointment of an…

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Mat Maker Before Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 October 1941 · page 4

John Mackenzie, aged 52, mat maker, was charged in the Court of Petty Sessions at Grafton yesterday morning with being, on October 27, a person…

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No Public Funeral Former Chief Of Police No Report in Press. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 October 1941 · page 6

At his own request there will be no public funeral to-day for James Mitchell, former New South Wales Commissioner of Police, who died at…

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Gas Producers for Police Cars

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 October 1941 · page 7

In preparation for the possibility of all police cars being fitted with gas producers, police of the Armidale subdistrict attended the Technical…

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Murder Threat According to Wife's Evidence. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 October 1941 · page 7

Mrs. Galins Ivanoff, of Woolloongabba, told the Summons Court to-day that her husband had threatened to murder her by pushing her down a well…

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