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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

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Two Years For Assaulting Military Police Newcastle Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.—Convicted at a District Court-Martial at Newcastle on a charge of having assaulted a military provost…

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King's Medal To Police Tracker First Award to Aborigine

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Governor, Lord Wakehurst, to-day received advice that the King has approved the award of the King's…

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12 Arrests for Murder Plot Darlan Death Sequel Giraud on List Also American Minister

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Wed. General Giraud, at a press conference in Algiers, disclosed that 12 persons had been arrested in…

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Sudden Death During Fight Murder Charge Follows

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1943 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Fri.—Following a New Year's Eve party in a house at Semaphore, an argument developed and Frederick James…

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A.W.C. INQUIRY Suspended Clerk Walks From Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.—There was a dramatic development to-day in the Allied Works Council inquiry when one of suspended clerks…

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Human Bones Found By Fisherman On Sand Dune Police Visit Scene

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 2

What Graf ton police believe to be human bones were found scattered about the sand dunes in an uninhabitated and…

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Woman Shot Mother and Son Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—Charged with having by discharging a revolver caused grievous bodily harm to Irene Rita Hill, Ada Sutton, 54…

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Murder Verdict Adelaide Fire Deaths

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.—A verdict of murder by a person or persons unknown was returned by the Acting Coroner to-day at the…

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Grafton Court Lengthy List DRUNKENNESS

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 4

In the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. R. M. Stewart P.M. Roy Buggen and Wm Elder, on charges of drunkenness…

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Police Court Charge of Vagrancy

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

Arnold Harold George, labourer, aged 29 years, who has been about Dorrigo for a few weeks past, appeared at the local Police Court on…

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Abo. Tracker Honored King's Police Medal for Distinguished Conduct

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 1

"I have learned with pleasure that the Governor, Lord Wakehurst, has received advice that the King has approved of the award of the King's Police…

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Man Charged with Procuring Girls

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—At the Central Court today William Sydney Wells, 60, was remanded to January 21 on £200 bail on a charge…

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Killed in Action Member of Court Star of North, A.o.f

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 2

The sad news was received at the last meeting of Court Star of the North, No. 3120, of the Ancient Order of Foresters, that one of…

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£15 a Week For Man A.W.L. Evidence in Newcastle Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sat.—James Cotton, who admitted being A.W.L. from the Army, said at Newcastle Police Court that he had…

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77 Absentees All Bound Over N.Y. Day Stop-workers Noisy Scenes In Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sat.—Seventy-seven workers. who pleaded guilty at the Central Court to-day to having unlawfully…

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ABSENTEES 50 p.c. Young Men 102 More Charged Thirty-five Bound Over

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—More than half the men who were proceeded against at the Central Summons Court to-night for a breach…

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Negro Charged Stabbing Affray in Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.—An American negro soldier, Daniel Hunt. 35. when arrested after a stabbing affray yesterday, declared:…

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In Camera Sydney Manpower Case Magistrate's Explanation

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—Curiosity was aroused to-day as to the reason why Mr. Atkinson, S.M., yesterday heard in camera, an appeal…

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Actor Charged Trial Of Errol Flynn Many Turned Away

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Mon.—Scores of spectators, mostly women, lined up outside the barricaded courtroom for two hours before…

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Jean Borotra Arrested by Vichy Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Mon.—Jean Borotra former French tennis star, is imported to have been arrested by Vichy police while trying to…

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