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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

572 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 22 of 29

Youth Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Kenneth Ross, 18, stated to be an absconder from the Gosford Boys' Farm, pleaded guilty to five…

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Taxi Car Driver Fined £26 in Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 4

Henry Edward Johnson (38). was, charged in the Grafton Court of Petty, Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., with having driven his…

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Man Charged With Theft Of Goods Valued At £2879

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--At the Kogarah Court to-day George Unitt. 26, radio foreman, was committed for trial on a charge of…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- Donald McLean, 36, cooper, of the Bull and Mouth Hotel, Horsham, was to-day arrested and charged with…

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Charge of Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 1

HOLLYWOOD, Wed.--According to a transcript of Grand Jury evidence filled at the county clerk's office Jon Hall…

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Move To Reduce Congestion In Divorce Court Lists

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 September 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Fri.--In an effort to reduce congestion in the Divorce Court lists, it has been decided that after November 1, all undefended divorce cases in…

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Appeal Dismissed By State Full Court. Medical Probabilities

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 September 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.--In dismissing an appeal from the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission to-day, the Full…

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Father Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Mon.--Frank Allen Pitt, 36, manufacturer, of Bankstown, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the…

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£5 Fine For Theft Of Two Coats

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 2

In the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke. P.M., Jack Johns, 42 years of age, laborer, was charged with stealing…

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Damage To Lights In South Grafton. Council Seeks Police Action

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 6

South Grafton Municipal Council completed its business at the regular meeting held last night within 31 minutes, the meeting finishing at 8.5…

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Two Men Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 September 1944 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.--Charges were made against two men at the Newcastle Court to-day for having feloniously and maliciously…

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Soldier Sentenced At Kempsey For Shooting Brother

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 September 1944 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Thurs.--Before his Honor Judge Storkey at Kempsey Quarter Sessions, a jury found Septimus W. Ryan,…

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Constable Charged With Indecent Assault On His Daughter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 September 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Fri.--Three charges of having indecently assaulted his 11 years old daughter were preferred against Thomas Frederick Evers, 38. first-class…

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Alleged Assault. Happenings at Iluka

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 September 1944 · page 3

Most of the day was occupied at Maclean Police Court on Wednesday with the hearing of charges arising out of a happening at Iluka on the night…

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Gaol for Son Who Wounded His Father

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 September 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.—Ronald Joseph Mc- Quade, 21, was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to-day, to three years' imprisonment for maliciously wounding…

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Roy and Girl Romances End in Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tues.--A youth, and a girl who pleaded guilty in two separate cases in the Criminal Court to-day to…

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Airmen Fined For Stealing Petrol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Three airmen pleaded guilty at Parramatta Court to-day to a total of ten charges of stealing Air Force property…

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Siegfried Line Entered Terrific Assault From Aachen Sector Gains Two Miles

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.--The American First Army's infantry and tanks, in one of the greatest land and air assaults of the European war, yesterday drove into the Siegfried Line for two miles on a six-mile front in the sector between Aachen and…

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Australia First Movement Watched by Police Chief

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.--The New South Wales Police Commissioner, Mr. Mackay, had ordered him not to hold a meeting of the…

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Murder Society Suggested

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1944 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wed.--Police are now investigating the possibility that a Chinese secret society was responsible for the brutal murder…

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