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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

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Murder Charge in Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Melbourne police to-day arrested a man in connection with the murder of Ivan Patrick Laidlaw,…

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Butchers' Hours A Question For Arbitration Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Federal Arbitration Court next Monday will hear opinions on butchers' trading hours from the master…

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Italian War Prisoners Charged With Murder At Hay Camp

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 2

HAY, Tues.--A military court to-day continued hearing the charges arising out of a fracas in a prisoner of war camp on July…

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Doctor and Secretary Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Reginald, Stuart Jones (42), medical practitioner, Macquarie street, was charged at the Central Court…

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Former Forester And Sawmiller Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 4

James William Harris, former forester, and Thomas Bertram Timms, sawmiller at Timmsvale, were yesterday charged at the Coff's Harbour…

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Charge Of Murder Follows Beer Party Shooting

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--On a charge of having murdered Ivan Patrick Laidlaw, on Sunday night, when a shooting occurred at a…

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Police Escape Death by Seconds From an Explosion

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Shortly after five police officers had left a tin-roofed weatherboard house at Menai, near…

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Explosion Sequel In Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 November 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Following an explosion at a house at Menai, near Sutherland, yesterday, Clifford Alexander Maxwell (34), a…

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Murder Charge Against Schoolboy

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- A nine-year-old boy Geoffrey Charles Clay, of North Carlton, was committed for trial to-day by the City…

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Advancing on Budapest Hungarian Front Shaking Under Russian Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.-- The Russians have captured Keeskemet, the last bulwark defending the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Soviet forces in this region have also captured another…

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Drink Causes Road Accidents Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 November 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Drink had been responsible for 99 per cent. of the road accidents on which he had held inquests…

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Murder Charge at Lithgow

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 November 1944 · page 2

LITHGOW, Tues.—William John Hugh Foye (19), mine clipper, was committed for trial by the Coroner to-day on a charge…

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Woolgoolga Police Officer Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 November 1944 · page 4

The Returned Soldiers' Memorial Hall was well filled on the night of October 27, when a farewell complimentary social evening and presentation was…

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Murder Charge Follows Shooting

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 November 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Joseph Harold Ryan, of Carrajean Flats, Bondi, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered…

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British Take Middleburg Assault Troops Paddle to Fight in Small Boats

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 November 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.--British troops who took Middleburg, on Waycheren Island, captured 2000 prisoners, and Lieut.-General Daser, Commander of the German 70th Division garrisoning the Dutch islands, states Reuter's correspondent with the First…

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Alleged Theft of Tobacco

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 November 1944 · page 4

LISMORE, Thursday.--Charged before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at the Casino Court to-day with being concerned in thefts of tobacco…

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More Police For Country Centres

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 November 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The Premier, in the Legislative Assembly to-day, said everything possible would be done to avoid a…

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Penicillin Fees Charged To Doctors

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Fri.--The president of the Victorian branch of the B.M.A., Dr. D. Roseby, said to-day that the assurance given…

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Murder Charge Follows Death of Child

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Ronald Morgan (24), process worker, on Ardmillan road, Moonee Ponds, was committed for trial to-day on…

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Russians Are Ready For General Assault In Conjunction With Eisenhower's Forces

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Fri.--A special announcement by the Soviet Information Bureau says that in the month ending on Monday last the Germans in Hungary and Transylvania lost over 142,000 men killed or taken prisoner…

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