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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

600 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 30

Cup Footballers Grafton Theft Charges Three Youths Bound Over

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 6

Two Grafton Cup footballers, Kevin Carr (19), and William Bevan, and another youth, Reginald Coleman, were bound over for 12 months by the Police Magistrate, Mr. R. M…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 4

In the Grafton Small Debts Court yesterday the Police Magistrate (Mr. R. M. Stewart) entered a verdict for the Grafton District Hospital in an action…

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Youth Charged Assaulted Three Women Taunted by Workmates. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 5

At the Parramatta Sessions to-day Eric Charles Howard, 19, pleaded guilty and was remanded until Wednesday for sentence on a charge of having…

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Murder Charge Boy's Letter to Mother. Townsville

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 4

Charged with the murder of Christian Watkins, known as "Dave the Magician," at Cape Pallandra, Eric Francis Howles, 14, appeared at the…

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Youth Charged Murder on Q 'Sland Farm. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 December 1941 · page 5

Charles Henry Sedgman, 17, farm laborer, was to -day charged with the wilful murder of Mrs. Jeannie Ogden, 57, at Windera, near Murgon, yesterday…

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Assault Charge Young Man Acquitted Injured in Fall Under Train. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 December 1941 · page 4

At the Parramatta Sessions to -day James Thomas Bede Doyle, 19, was acquitted on a charge of having assaulted Harvey Brunton on "May 17…

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Murder Hunt Burnt Bones Found Timber Getter Slain South Grafton Discovery

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 December 1941 · page 4

A police hunt for the murderer of Stanley E. Bartlett, a timber -getter, has developed from the identification yesterday of a few charred pieces of…

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Man Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 December 1941 · page 4

At an early hour this morning a man was charged at the Grafton police station with the murder of Stanley Bartlett, also known as Stanley Cummins…

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Young Woman Charged with Murder Sequel To Bones Case Lismore Court Hearing Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 December 1941 · page 4

As a sequel to the finding of charred pieces of human bones in a creek bed near Glen Innes road, about seven miles from South…

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Boy Sentenced Charge of Manslaughter. Townsville

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 December 1941 · page 5

When Eric Frances Rowles, 14, convicted of the manslaughter of Christian Watkins, appeared for sentence to-day. Justice Douglas ordered that he be…

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Suicide Attempt Aged Man In Court "Action Caused by Drink."

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 December 1941 · page 4

Pleading guilty in the Grafton Police Court yesterday to a charge of having attempted to commit suicide by slashing his throat with a razor blade…

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Two Charged S. Grafton Murder Man And Woman Before Court Remanded to December 22

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 December 1941 · page 4

Cecil Raymond Ellem, 21, laborer of South Grafton, and Constance Olga Davison, 24, domestic, were charged conjointly in the Grafton Court…

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Murder Charge Powders In Letterbox Telephone Linesman Remanded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 December 1941 · page 5

Donald Pagett, 47, telephone linesman, was remanded until December 11, at the Central Court to -day on a charge of having at Manly on…

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Injured Man Hard Task for Police and Ambulance. Katoomba

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 December 1941 · page 3

Sixteen police and several ambulance officers carried Allan Newman, of Merrylands, near Sydney for eight hours over rough country and up 1400…

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Police Court Disturbance by Blacks

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1941 · page 1

There has been a big influx of aboriginal blood in Coffs Harbour lately, the men coming to take up jobs on banana and tomato…

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Case Settled Auctioneer in Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 December 1941 · page 6

An incident connected with the Red Cross auction on Saturday had an echo at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when Arthur Francis…

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Gaol for German Enlisted Under False Name. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 December 1941 · page 2

Twelve months' imprisonment and a fine of £30 was imposed on a German at the Brisbane Court to-day for having made a false declaration…

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Bomb Outrages Death Of Third Man Police Search for Motor Car. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 December 1941 · page 4

Yesterday's shocking bomb outrage at Yanderra claimed its third vict[?] early this morning when Frederick Sidney Walker, 54, married, of…

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Fight at Dance Charges of Assault

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 December 1941 · page 2

Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at Coffs Harbour-Police Court to-day, Colin Campbell Stuart charged William Bruce Cameron with assault, and…

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To Be Hanged for Murder of Soldier. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 December 1941 · page 4

Alfred N[?]e, 42, military transport driver, will be hanged on December 22 for the murder of Thomas Walker. 45. soldier, whose body, stabbed in several…

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