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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

600 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 30

Police Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 2

Mr. A. J. Bryant P. M. visited Dorrigo on Wednesday last and opened the Court of Petty Sessions. The case of N. Conomor v. R…

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Fair Rents Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 2

In the Fair Rents Court, Coff[?] Harbour, to-day, Sampson Palme[?] asked Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., to f[?] the rental of shop premises in High[?]…

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Gaol for Germans Escaped Internees Crown Prosecutor's Plea for Mercy. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 5

There was a dramatic interruption from the body of the court to-day by the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Nolan, when Judge Foster was about to sentence…

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P.M. PROMOTED Eulogies at Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 2

Mr. A. J. Bryant, Police Magistrate in this district during the past few years, has been promoted to the Lismore District and will be succeeded…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court Traffic Cases

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

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

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Arms Dump Police Discovery in Belfast. Belfast

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 5

The police seized an arms dump in a factory at the north end of the city. It included a machine-gun, many revolvers and much ammunition…

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Six Months' Gaol Two Young Men Sentenced Refused Oath of Enlistment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 2

Refusing to take the oath of enlistment, two young men were sentenced to six months' gaol with hard labor at Parramatta Court today…

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Lengthy Loadings Prosecution Of Timber Hauler Reference to Be Made to Minister Proceedings in Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 3

Reference was made in the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., to recent statements of the Minister for Transport…

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Half-caste Escapes From Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 4

Whilst having his fingerprints taken at the Quirindi police station after haying been arrested on two charges of breaking arid entering, Walter Henry…

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MAN 27 Loved Girl Sixteen Murder-- Suicide Near Tenterfield. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 4

As Dorothy Lackey, 16 years, was retiring last night she was fatally shot by a man hiding outside her bedroom. A few seconds later another shot…

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Assault Alleged Defendant Convicted Incident at South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

Thomas James (24) was convicted by Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday for unlawfully assaulting Horace William…

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£320 Missing Woman Arrested and Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

After four hours' vigil two detectives to-night arrested a man and woman at a house in Newtown. The woman, aged 23, was charged with stealing £320 and…

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Grafton Supreme Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

As there are no criminal cases set down for trial at the Supreme Court sitting at Grafton, the jurors concerned have been notified that their attendance…

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Small Debts Court Cases at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 7

At the Grafton Small Debts Court on Monday before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., the Grafton District Hospital, represented by Mr. D. W. Macpherson,…

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Police Bill to Establish Reserve Force. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

The Police Reserve Bill, which was originally introduced in the Legislative Assembly in October, 1939, will be passed through Parliament before the…

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Murder Charge Doctor and Barman Woman's Death In Sydney Evidence at Inquest Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

The death at a surgery on February 28 of Winifred Pretoria O'Brien, formerly of Gunnedah, and lately of Campbelltown, was probed to-day by…

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Britain's Military Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 4

Britain's Military Police parading in gas masks. They have been formed from the ranks of mobile policemen (or "speed cops") and the road scouts of motor organisations, and are thus expert motor cyclists with a through knowledge of the country…

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Police Reserves For Emergency Duty Opposed by Labor. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 4

Police reservists would be a sort or legalised. New Guard and give the Government a force of strike-breakers when they were required, said Mr. C…

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P. M.'s Departure MR. A. J. Bryant Transferred to Lismore Farewelled at Local Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 1

The Court held by Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M. at Dorrigo on February 12, was the last to be conducted by him as visiting Police Magistrate for this…

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Murder Charge Husband Remanded Wife Battered at Newcastle. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 5

Following the finding of the battered body of Frances Chald Trimmer (20). in her home at Islington this morning, her husband, Roger Gordon Trimmer…

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