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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

600 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 30

Local and General Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 November 1941 · page 4

At the Ulmarra Police Court, before Mr. R. O. Drew, J.F., yesterday, Charles Merrifield, 45, salesman, was charged with having been found drunk…

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Murder Charge Appeal Against Conviction. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 November 1941 · page 4

William Fisher, 65, painter, under sentence of death for murder, applied in the Full Court to-day on 20 grounds against his conviction and sentence…

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House in Uproar Q'sland Parliament Echo of Court Case. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 November 1941 · page 2

Uproar prevailed in the Legislative Assembly to-day when the Liquor Bill was being debated. Amidst disorderly scenes a motion was carried directing…

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Men Wounded Stabbing And Razor Slashing Police Make Arrests. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 November 1941 · page 4

Swift police action resulted in the arrest of two men this morning following a stabbing at Waterloo and a razor slashing at Rozelle late last night…

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Sent to Gaol Forged Marriage Certificate. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 November 1941 · page 5

Found guilty last week of having forged purports of a marriage certificate James Leishman, 24, who was formerly a minister of the…

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Germany, Murder Bomber, Is Now Bombed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1941 · page 4

Heavy bombs, some of them weighing up to 2000lbs., seen being loaded to the racks of a British Bomber, before a raid over enemy territory. (These are some of Britain's "beautiful bombs," whose blasting power, five times greater than that of any…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 3

At the Maclean Police Court on Monday, morning, Frederick William Pegus and Bernard Insley appeared on charges of offensive behaviour. Pegus, whose eye was' blackened,…

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Building Trades Dispute to Go to Court. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 5

The threatened strike of some of the 110,000 building trades' employees has been averted by the Minister for Labor, Mr. Ward…

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"I'll Shoot You!" Threat To Wife Allegation in Court Soldier Bound Over

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 2

The allegation that when James Thomas Patten, 31, a member of the A.I.F., who is home on convalescent leave, after service abroad, returned…

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MACLEAN Police Court Warrant Charitable Collections Act Prosecution. Macllian

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 3

The failure of Daniel Dow to appear at the Maclean Police Court to answer a charge under the Charitable Collections Act led to a Bench warrant being issued for, his arrest…

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Bail Refused Alleged Assault on Woman. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 7

Charged with having assaulted Mrs. Thelma Scanes, at Wollongong last Saturday, with intent. to commit a criminal offence, John Daniel…

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Sent to Gaol Offences Against Girls. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 4

Pleading guilty in Melbourne Criminal Court to 10 offences against girl pupils, Thomas Edward Devlin, 26, a schoolmaster, was sentenced to 3 12…

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N.Z. MURDER Woman Found Dead Husband and Son at Pictures. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 5

A man was seen to ride away hurriedly on a bicycle from a Palmerston North home where the wife of Frederick Speight, commercial traveller…

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Woman's Death Brother Charged with Murder. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 5

There was a startling development in the violent death of a Palmerston North woman at her home this week when in the Magistrate's Court to-day…

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Gaol Improvements

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 4

The Attorney-General, Mr. Martin, has advised Mr. C. G. Wingfield, M.L.A., that when he returned to Sydney from Grafton recently he…

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Warden's Court Mining Applications

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 2

Mr. R. M. Stewart, Police Magistrate and Mining Warden, presided at a Warden's Court at Dorrigo, on Wednesday of last week and dealt with…

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Fear Plea Man Shot After Argument Murder Charge at Maitland. West Mattland

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 5

William Thomas James, 22, son of Mr. Roley James, M.H.R., died as a result of a bullet wound fired at point blank range, and did not have a chance…

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Police Statement

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 December 1941 · page 4

Detective-Constable D. C. Dallas stated last night he had been informed that some women were disinclined to ride their bicycles at night because of…

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Butcher Charged Stock Theft Suspected Police Story of Inquiries

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 6

James Kiely, butcher, of Mountain View, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., on a charge of…

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Gaol for Colored Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 4

Kate Williams, a colored woman, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, by the Police Magistrate (Mr. R. M. Stewart) in the Grafton Court of…

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