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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

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Police Court P.M. Has Busy Afternoon

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

Mr. R. M. Stwea[?]t, Police Magistrate, paid his monthly visit to Dorrigo on Wednesday, llth inst. and had an unusually busy afternoon in…

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Hospital Fees Ex Patients Sued for Payment Small Debts Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

After the Court of Petty Sessions last week, the P.M. (Mr. R. M Stewart) opened a Snail Debts Court and first dealt with some cases brought…

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Serious Charge Soldier Sent to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 November 1942 · page 4

BRISBANE, Fri.--A sentence of 20 months' hard labor has been imposed by Justice Philp on a soldier who induced a mentally deficient girl to…

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Allied Forces Take Soputu Australians-americans Join In The Final Assault On Position Peak of Enemy Triangle Smashed Allies Now Attacking Buna-Gona Line

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 November 1942 · page 3

Somewhere in Australia, Sun.--The heaviest fighting of the New Guinea campaign continued on the Buna-Gona-Soputu triangle on Friday and Saturday as the Australian and American forces pressed their attack against the Japanese beach head…

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Murder Charge American Soldier's Death

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.--Edward James Shaw was charged in a country town to-day with the wilful murder of a member of…

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Religious Bodies Govt's Power To Abolish Argument in High Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 November 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Before Mr. Justice Starke in the High Court to-day the Adelaide Company of Jehovahs Witnesses…

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Trouble on Train Trial by Court-martial

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 November 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tues.--The three soldiers arrested for alleged implication in a disturbance on the Sydney express near Harden last week when two…

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Satan's War Not Controlled By Jehovah Claim Before Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 November 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.--In the High Court to-day during the hearing of a claim by the Adelaide Company of Jehovah's…

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Macleaim Police Court. Yesterdays Sitting. Dog Cases

The Clarence River Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1942 · page 2

At Maclean Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, the case Police v. Edward Garde for the keeping of a savage dog, and Police v. Edward Garde…

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Iluka Residents. Insulting Words and Assault Dependant Bound Over

The Clarence River Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1942 · page 1

At Maclean Court of Potty Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr; A. M.Stewart, P.M., Clara May Twiss, of Iluka, proceeded against Mary Donoghue, also…

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Small, Debts Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1942 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court, Sydney A. M. Sanne v. Thomas Copland, for alleged detention of property, there was no appearance of the parties and the…

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Assault and Insulting Words Case From Iluka Defendant Bound Over

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 1

There were many humorous, incidents at Maclean Police Court on Thursday, during the hearing of a case from Iluka in widen Clara May Twiss proceeded…

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High Court Dismisses Trautwein Appeal

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--By consent the High Court of Australia to-day dismissed an appeal by Theodore William Nugent…

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Enemy Alien Interned Scene in Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 4

At the Central Police Court Sydney, presided over by Mr. Austerity, S.M. an elderly man was charged with being unlawfully of the premises of Mr…

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Court Pestered Frivolous Stoppages Something Will Have to Be Done

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Something would have to be done to prevent the frivolous stoppages with which the court is being pestered stated Judge O'Mara, in the…

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Acquitted by Court–martial

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 November 1942 · page 3

LOS ANGELES, Thurs.—An Army court-martial acquitted Lt. Wilson of the manslaughter charge arising cut of a bomber and…

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Holiday Pay Opinion Sought on High Court Judgement

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 November 1942 · page 4

CANBERRA, Fri.—The Commonwealth Government has taken advantage of the presence of employment lawyers at the…

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Files From A.W.C. Police Inquiring Ward on Council

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 November 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.— Investigations into the alleged disappearance of two files from the Allied Works Council are still being made by the police. This was indicated…

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Owners Resist Dipping Campaign Incident Near Ulmarra Police Reinforcements Sent For

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 November 1942 · page 2

For four hours yesterday Ulmarra farmers defied members of the tick staff, who were accompanied by police, to take…

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Murder Charge Two American Soldiers Taxi Shooting

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 November 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sat.—A finding thai the American sentry, Private Weston Rudolph Smith, and the American Sergeant Taylor, had…

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