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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

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Nazis Assault Kharkov Fighting in Streets of City As German Armies Thrust a Wedge Into Defences

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 March 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.—With the battle for Kharkov approaching its climax, a late despatch to the "Red Star" yesterday reported that very heavy fighting was proceeding on the western approaches to the city, where the Germans in one sector on Friday thrust a…

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Grafton Police Court Indecent Language

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1943 · page 4

At the Graf ton Police Court yesterday before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., Harley Hughes pleaded guilty to a charge of using indecent language in Prince…

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Police Secretary Walks From Inquiry

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—After he had been refused permission to cross-examine a witness, Mr. C. J. Cosgrove, secretary of the Police…

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DISMISSED After Hours Case On Licensed Premises Grafton Court Proceedings

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1943 · page 1

At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., William Harold Green, licensee of the Jacaranda Hotel, was…

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To Be Sentenced For Theft Of Ration Books

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 March 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.— Pleading guilty to having entered the Bondi Junction electoral office and stolen 2250 ration books, Thomas John…

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Police Question Many Suspects

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 March 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.— In their search for the killer of Albert Edward Crutcher (11), whose body was found in an old brick pit at…

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Soldiers To Face Court-Martial

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 March 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.— Arising out of the inquiry in Bendigo recently when it was alleged that military police had shown…

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Sent To Gaol For Theft Of Ration Books

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 March 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Two years' imprisonment was imposed on Thomas John Kennedy, at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day for…

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Gaol for Profiteer

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 March 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Three months' imprisonment was ordered by Mr. Mohr, P.M., in the City Court to-day, for…

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Two Years Gaol for Woman

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 March 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Convicted in the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of manslaughter of Edna Lavilla Haynes (35), a…

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18 Months' Gaol for Perjury on Military Exemption Application

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 March 1943 · page 2

Judge Storkey, who won the V.C. in The last war, had no sympathy with two men who appeared before him at Kempsey Quarter Sessions last week…

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Gaol For Italian Internee

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Fri.—Pleading guilty in the Criminal Court to-day to a charge of having unlawfully killed Francisco Fantin on…

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Murder Charge in N.Z.

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Fri.—Following the discovery of the partly charred body of Mrs. Wilhelmina Webster (26), taxi driver, this…

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Slave Keepers In U.S. Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 3

CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas). Thurs.—For the first time in the history of American peonage laws a woman, Susie Skrobareyzk…

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Weird Collection Found By Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Fri.—In the Adelaide Police Court to-day Mary and Ellen Rafferty. spinster sisters. 73 and 65 respectively, were…

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Jews Slaughtered In Ghetto By German Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.—The Germans are speeding up the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, intending to empty the…

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Grafton Court Ill-treatment of Horse

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1943 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday Frederick Clarence Sanders. 49, carrier, of Grafton, was charged before Mr. R. M. Stewart. P.M., that on March 19. he…

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Petrol Tickets Court Charge

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Pleading guilty at the Central Criminal Court to-day to having had unlawful possession of petrol…

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Grafton Police Court Case Settled

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 4

In the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., Dorothy Eileen Wood proceeded against Mrs. Smith, wife of R. Smith…

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Alleged Theft of Diamonds

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 2

PERTH, Mon.— A charge of having stolen diamonds arid received diamonds valued at £20.000 belonging to the Dutch authorities…

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