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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

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Valuation Court Harwood Shire Appeals

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 2

In the Valuations Appeals Court, before Mr. R. M. Stewart. P.M, the C.S.R. Co., through their Harwood manager. Mr. J…

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Fair Rents Court Case at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 1

In the Fair Rents Court, at Maclean, presided over by Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., application for redress under the Fair Rents…

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Military Service Exemption Sought Six Applications Before Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 2

Six applications for exemption from military service were before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M. at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Almost Nude Woman's Body Found In Doorway Victim of Brutal Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.—During the early hours of this morning a young woman was brutally murdered in Albert Park. The…

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Fair Rents Court. Application at Maclean. Bent Reduced

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 1

At the Maclean. Fair Rents Court on Wednesday last, before Mr. A. M. Stewart, P.M., Prank Barnes, of Maclean, made application for a reduction of…

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Harwood Appeal Court. C.s.r. Co.'s Land

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 4

At Harwood Shire Appeal Court at Maclean on Wednesday last, Mr. A. M. Stewart, P.M., pres[?] the C.S.R. Co., Harwood [?] appealed against…

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Sold Twice Cattle Stealing Young Man Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 4

A charge of stealing two Jersey he[?]ers the property of Wm. Harold Jackson, was preferred in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday,…

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Woman's Death Man Calls On Police Reads of Murder in Paper

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Mon.—Reading in a newspaper this morning that Mrs. Ivy McLeod, 40, had been murdered a man who lives not…

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FLOGGING And Seven Years' Gaol for Brutal Attack on Girl

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.—Leslie Stechens, textile worker, married, of Coburg, was sentenced to seven years' hard labor, and 15…

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£2000 THEFT £100 A Month Repayments Man Out on Five Years' Bond

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Michael James Sharman, 29, who pleaded, guilty in the Quarter Sessions to-day to the theft of £2000 was released on…

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Court Ruling Estates of Missing Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—The Minister for Justice, Mr. Downing, commenting to-day on the position in which dependents of missing…

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Death Sentence At Courtr-Martial Appeal to High Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—In the Court to-day Dr. Frank Louat declared that in the proceedings before a court-martial which had…

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Two Remanded Assault on Man Alleged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—Allegations that a man had been injured during an affray in a cottage were mads at the Central Police Court…

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Suspend Unionist Sixty Fitters Appeal to Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Because a charge hand had accused them of going slow, 60 fitters concerned in a dockyard dispute appealed to…

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ROBBERIES? Darwin Police Raids Furniture and Other Goods Seized

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1942 · page 4

Advanced Allied Base.—Thousands of pounds worth of furniture and other goods from homes were seized by military police…

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Carr's Creek Estate Widower's Application Succeeds in Equity Court Testator's Family Maintenance Act

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1942 · page 4

On Friday. May 1, an application under the Testator's family Maintenance and Guardianship of Infants Act was heard before Mr…

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Murder Charge Case Collapses Inquiries in Three States

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 May 1942 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thurs.—In the Cunnamulla Court this morning Ethel Maud Toohey. former hostess at the Hotel Australia,…

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Police Changes Inspector Schuman Transferred to Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 2

Inspector F. J. Schuman, who has been in charge of the Grafton police inspectorate for the past two years, has been transferred…

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Nude Woman Melb. Murder Wife Of Policeman Body in Laneway

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sat.—A halfnude, young married woman was found strangled before dawn to-day on the steps of her…

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Police Report

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 May 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues.—The annual report of Deputy Police Commissioner J. Scott was tabled in Parliament to-day and revealed that…

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