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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

572 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 29

Gaol For Ten Years: Assaulted American

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—A sentence of 10 years' imprisonment was imposed on Keith Kenneth Keillor, 26, salesman, of Petersham, at the…

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Mass Murder Of Allied Airmen By Germans

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Fri.—Mr. Anthony Eden, in a statement in the Commons on the shootings at Stalag Luft 3, read the German…

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Sought Protection Of Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 5

BRISBANE, Fri.—Before giving evidence for the A.W.U. during the hearing of a case, William Beecher Hay versus the A.W.U.,…

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Woman Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Sun.—A married woman, Mrs. Helen Lewis, 32, whose husband is away from home working in another town, was arrested to-day and charged…

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Planning for Assault on Europe Started in 1940

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.—Planning for the assault on Europe actually started in 1940, while plans for the present Cherbourg…

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Final Assault Has Begun Allies in Outskirts of Cherbourg: Pressure Steadily Overcoming Enemy Defences

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.—The 39th S.H.A.E.F. communique states: "The Allies are in the outskirts of Cherbourg, and the final assault has begun. Our forces, on a ten miles front extending east and west of the city, have advanced to within three miles of the sea. The…

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Wrong Identity Card Leads Holder To Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 1

William Raymond Sackley, a soldier, was fined £5, in default 10 days' imprisonment, by Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at Grafton, yesterday, for having had…

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Hard Luck For Milk Vendor Described In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 4

At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke P.M., Arthur Alan Alford pleaded guilty to having sold adulterated milk on May…

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Offensive Behavior In Grafton Cafe Ends In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 1

Abel Stephen Everingham was fined 10 for offensive behaviour in the Waratah Cafe on May 17. when he pleaded guilty, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M.,…

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Stealing Charge Fails In Copmanhurst Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 June 1944 · page 1

Clarence Ronald Winkley, sleeper-cutter, of Main Creek, Copmanhurst, was charged in the Copmanhurst Court yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke,…

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Supreme Court Reserves Judgment in Zietsch Appeals

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—The N.S.W. Supreme Court to-day reserved judgment on the appeals by W. J. Zietsch, formerly…

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Murder Charge Against Aborigine

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

LISMORE, Wed.--The opinion that the body of Richard Gwynne, 66, retired council employee, had been carried to the position where…

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Girl Charged With Murder Of Father

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thurs.—Constance Goschnick, 20, was committed for trial at Murgon to-day on a charge of having murdered her…

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Agostini To Be Sentenced To-day

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Sentence will be pronounced on Antonio Agostini by Mr. Justice Lowe at 10 a.m. to-morrow…

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Taxi Driver Charged Police Allege He Was "Under the Influence" Case Adjourned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 4

Henry Edward Johnson, taxi-cab proprietor, was charged in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., with…

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3000 Cigarettes Seized By Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Police to-night seized from a taxi outside the main gate of Glebe Island wharf 3000 cigarettes on which…

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Ebor in Dorrigo Police District

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1944 · page 2

Ebor and surroundings have now been included in the Dorrigo police district, since the closing of the station at that centre. The new patrol…

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Charged Americans Excessive Rent: Three Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--A sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed on Gregory William Hanlon, in the Special Federal Court…

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Youth Charged With Wounding

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—Following shooting in the stomach on a Liverpool train on Saturday afternoon, of Stanley Stephenson, 26. laborer, of Granville, a…

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Exciting Chase by Kempsey Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Fri.—Details of an exciting chase after a lorry being driven by an intoxicated driver, over the Kempsey traffic bridge and up the hill into…

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