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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

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Daring Escape From Military Hospital Soldier Charged with Theft From Lismore Nurse

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--The daring escape from the 113th Australian General Hospital at Concord West, where he was a patient…

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Ulmarra Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 4

Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M. at the Ulmarra Court of Petty Sessions yesterday morning, John Thomas Kearney proceeded against Bernie Firth, of…

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Cabinet Review Liquor Situation Report From Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--The State Cabinet to-day fully reviewed the liquor situation in N.S.W., and was still considering a…

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CONSPIRACY To Defeat Defence Act Two Men Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--At the Central Police Court to-day, when the hearing was continued of the case in which Bruce Miller, 26…

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Criminals Shoot Arab Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Tues.--One Arab police officer and three constable were killed on August 4 in an armed engagement with a gang of…

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District Court Case Settled

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 4

At the Grafton District Court yesterday, before his Honor, Judge Storkey. V.C., when the case in which Frederick Norman Barber, of Woolgooga, laborer,…

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Vic. News Twelve Girls in Police Raid

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.--The sequel to a raid by the Vice Squad on a house in West Melbourne at 1.30 a.m. on August 1 occurred in…

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INQUIRY Suspension Of Rice Reference to Police Record

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Stanley Cassin Taylor, Deputy Director of Security, told the Commissioner of Inquiry, Mr. Blakely, to-day, that…

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Liquor Ban Girls Under 21 Drastic Regulations Private Homes Police May Enter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Regulations will be introduced by the State Government this week drastically curtailing the sale and…

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Acquitted Wrestler Charged with Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.--After a retirement of a few minutes in the Criminal Court to-day, a jury acquitted John Paradice, the…

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Stole Luggage Relieving Porter Sent to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--Pleading guilty to thirteen charges of stealing about £1000 worth of luggage and goods from stations at which he…

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'Bus Route Conference With Police Proposed Change of Bus Stand

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 August 1942 · page 2

A conference was held yesterday afternoon, at the Grafton Council Chambers, between representatives appointed by the…

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Air Assault Attacks On Germany U. K. and U .S. Do Not Disagree

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 August 1942 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sat.-- Air Commodore H. N. Thornton, British Air Attache in Washington, to- day denied a report published in the…

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Vic. News Preferred Gaol Young Woman Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 August 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Fay Bennett, 19, telephonist, who was convicted last February on four counts of false pretences appeared…

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Nazi Saboteurs Accomplices Charged Indictments Sought

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 August 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tues.--The New York "Times'" correspondent at Washington states that the Department of Justice will seek…

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Murder and Suicide Father Worried Over Future of Children

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 August 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Worried about the future of his two baby daughters because of the trend of the war, Sergt. Denis Josiah…

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ROBBERY Gaol And Whipping Theft From U.S. SOLDIER

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 August 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Convicted in the General Sessions to-day of robbery with violence from an American soldier, Eric…

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Two Charged Escape Of Soldiers From Detention Camp

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 August 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.--At the Liverpool court to-day a man and woman were charged with assisting three soldiers to escape from…

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Resistance to Police Delivering Call-ups

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 August 1942 · page 3

OTTAWA, Wed.--The Canadian press reports that police constables personally delivering call-up notices in Quebec city met…

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Use of Vehicle Soldier Charged Released on Bond

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.--In the Quarter Sessions to-day Edwin Harris, 26. A.I.F., pleaded guilty to having illegally used a motor vehicle, that…

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