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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

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12 MONTHS Soldier Sentenced Pound Street Robbery

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 July 1943 · page 2

Judge Stolkey. V.C., in the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday sentenced Frank Frederick Kirkup soldier, to 12 months imprisonment with hard labor…

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Report On Hobart Gaol Administration

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 July 1943 · page 2

HOBART, Fri.-In his extensive report on the Hobart gaol administration the Royal Commissioner, Sir John Morris, said he found no…

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National Security Court Manpower Appeal Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 July 1943 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Fri.—At Kempsey Court Mr. H. L. Sargeson P.M. Mr. L. W. Mackenzie, employers' representative and Mr. S[?] Gordon employers'…

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Charged With Murder: Would Like To Die By Firing Squad

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 July 1943 · page 3

OGDEN (Utah), Sat.—Austin Cox, 38, borrowed a shotgun and killed five persons, including has wife, Betty. 29, who had divorced…

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Police Seek Relatives

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 July 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.—Police are endeavoring to contact the relatives of William Broomfield, of Harris street, Ultimo, who died in a…

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Final Assault on Catania Strong Allied Reinforcements Disembarking for Attack Soon Hear Good News From Battlefront, Says Cairo Radio

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 July 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.—At message from Algiers radio states that the final assault against Ch[?]ania is imminent. Strong Allied reinforcements are disembarking for the attack. Beaufighters attacked an Axis convoy off the Italian coast, blew up a transport and torpedoed…

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"Incorrigible" Type Of Prisoners For Grafton Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—Prisoners of an "incorrigible and intractable" type are to be sent to the Grafton Gaol. This was…

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Aborigines Sentenced Stealing At Yamba Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 4

At the Maclean Police Court yester day, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, Police Magistrate George Bell, an aborigine, who is a stranger to the district, was…

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Motor Theft Charge In Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—Henry Cohen (54) was committed for trial, at Newtown Police Court to-day, on a charge of having stolen motor…

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Air Assault on Nazi Towns Breaks Records

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.—The tremendous damage resulting from the record-breaking air assault on Sunday and Monday on…

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Woman Sentenced For Security Breach

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—On a charge under the National Security Regulations of having communicated to another…

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Tremendous Air Assault on Hamburg

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.—Another tremendous air assault was made on Hamburg on Wednesday night when a…

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Black Marketeer Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Convicted at the Central Police Court to-day oh a charge of having uttered a charged petrol license number…

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Woman Sues Police For Damages

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—In the Supreme Court to-day Mrs. Phyllis Allwood (26), if Mount Victoria, claimed heavy…

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37 Miners To Be Charged To-day

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 July 1943 · page 6

CESSNOCK, Fri.—When 347 Aberdare miners appear at Cessnock Police Court to-morrow on a charge of absenting themselves…

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Police Hope To Elucidate Shooting Mystery

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 July 1943 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Fri.—A woman well-kncwn in the underworld was seen with a tall, hatless man hurrying along Gertrude street…

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Pastor Charged With Assault

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 August 1943 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Sun.—It was alleged at the Nelson Police Court yesterday, that in order "to save hor from hell," a seven-year-old…

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Additional Holidays For Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—In appreciation of local service given by them during the war all members of the police force, including…

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Soldier Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.—A soldier has been charged with the murder of lan Jeffries (25), who died in hospital from injuries suffered…

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Woolcott Forbes Before Court in Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—John Woolcolt Forbes, Australian financier, who arrived in Sydney to-day in company with a police…

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