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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

572 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 17 of 29

Gaol Sentence For Street Betting

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 2

LISMORE, Mon.—For a second offence of street betting a sentence of two months' imprisonment with hard labor, was…

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Commonwealth Charged. Food Production Expansion Hindered

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 4

BRISBANE, Mon.—A charge against the Commonwealth of hindering the expansion of Australian food production which…

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Soldier Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.—A remand to July 17 was granted at the Melbourne City Court to-day in the case in which John…

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Took Own Life Because He Was Jealous Of Reputation Police Theory

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 2

MOREE, Mon.—The theory that Christian Demetrius Loisidis Leeds, manager of the Capitol Theatre, had taken his…

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Troop Train Crash: Railway Men To Be Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 July 1944 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tues.--The Attorney-General, Mr. Abbott, said to-day that three railway men would be charged with…

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Damages Claim Following Impounding Fails At Ulmarra Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 July 1944 · page 4

A case of considerable local interest took up practically the whole day's proceedings before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at the Ulmarra Small Debts…

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Mother Charged With Murder Of Child

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 July 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Mrs. Mary Richardson, 33, a half-caste aborigine, was charged with the murder of her two-year-old son at…

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A Luftwaffe London Murder

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 14 July 1944 · page 4

" . . . . we picked up the British Broadcasting station on short wave and heard a voice in the finest American quality speaking to…

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Labour Conditions Suspended Mining Application at Warden's Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 14 July 1944 · page 2

At the Warden's Court on Wednesday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, Mining Warden, Sidney Frederick Amis, of Nambucca Heads, made application…

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Japs Launch Assault At Hengyang

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 July 1944 · page 3

CHUNGKING, Thursday.--To-day's Chungking communique states that after bombings for three successive nights, which…

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Mother For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 July 1944 · page 3

MUNGINDI, Fri.--Mrs. May Richardson, 33. was to-day committed for trial by the Coroner, Mr. L. Lewis, on a charge of…

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Objections to Closing of Police Stations

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 July 1944 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Fri.--Both Lower and U[?]r Maclcay residents arc greatly in[?]sed at the reported intention of the…

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Industrial Court To Sit At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 July 1944 · page 2

A sitting of the Industrial Court will be held at Maclean Courthouse on Tuesday next before Mr. Justice Webb, when an…

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Man Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A slaughterman and former policeman was arrested last night and charged with the murder of Mrs…

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Carrier Charged Incidents at Woolgoolga Alleged Driving Under Influence

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 2

In the Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday, John Thomas Baker, of Grafton, was charged with having driven a motor vehicle at Woolgoolga on June…

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Case Dismissed No One Offended Grafton Hotelkeeper Charged at Coff's Hbr

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 2

In the Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday, Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., dismissed a charge against a Grafton hotelkeeper, who had been charged…

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Magistrate Commends Hotel Licensee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 2

In the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday Mr. T. H. Brooke. Licensing Magistrate, granted the transfer cf the license of the Post…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court Exemption From Military Service

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 1

Before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at the Coff's Harbor Police Court, on Friday last, Christopher Lewthwaite and Thomas Paul Bishop, fishermen, Coff's…

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Man Convicted On Two Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 1

Robert Francis Stevenson, 26, was charged in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., with stealing a gold…

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Seaman Denies Charges Before Court-martial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--An allegation that he intended to injure shipmates with hand grenades was made at the court-martial of…

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