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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

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Police and Fire Services Medals

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--The Governor has received advice that the King has approved of the King's Police Medal and Fire Services Medal…

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Sale of Mare. Court Case at Maclean. Verdict for Plaintiff

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 1

Robert Clarence Marsh, of Palmer's Channel, was successful in his , claim against Joseph McPhee for the sum of £15 in connection with an alleged…

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Young Man On Charge Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.--At the City Court to-day Leo Clinton Cartledge, 23, laborer, of Fitzroy, was charged with having…

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Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—John Frederick Hayes, 31, laborer, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having murdered…

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North Coast Mail Charged By Bull: Three-Hour Delay

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—Several hundred passengers on the North Coast mail were delayed for more than three hours last night…

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Constable Charged With Robbing Drunken Seaman

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--In the Central Police Court to-day Constable Rupert Kenneth Bodel, 41, was charged with robbing a…

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Cruelty Alleged At Police Rodeo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--The president of the R.S.P.C.A., Mr. K. S. Williams, said to-day that prosecutions charging cruelty to animals…

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Clerk Remanded On Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.—George Samuel Edger (36), clerk, was again remanded until January 16, at the Central Court to-day, on a…

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Saved To Keep Family While In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Charles Raymond, 51, laborer, of Wentworthville, was fined £4 at the Campsie Court to-day for having stolen…

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Police Vice Squad Had Busy Year

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Arrests with convictions made by the police vice squad in Sydney during 1944 totalled 19,686. The figure for…

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Four Men Charged With Shooting Dr. Stuart Jones

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--At the Central Police Court to-day it was alleged that Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, who was shot…

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Victorian Police Against Forming Queues

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Victorian police are determined to stop the forming of queues for various commodities, and it is their…

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Police Allege Coupons Printed In Sydney Flat

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—Five men and two women including a solicitor, chemist, electrician, engineer, salesman, salesgirl and waitress,…

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Police Think Bullet deliberately Fired At Plane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Investigations by the C.I.B. indicate that a bullet was deliberately fired at the Melbourne-Sydney civil…

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Court and C.P.S. Office Annual Returns

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2

During 1944, 596 charge and summons cases were dealt with at Grafton Police Court, a decrease of 33 cases compared with…

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Gaol Sentences For Stealing U.S. Govt. Property

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wed—Prison sentences of 45 and 50 years were imposed on four American soldiers in France for the theft…

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Police Theory Of Sydney Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—The police hold the opinion that the murderer of Maurice Joseph Hannigan was at the scene of the crime…

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Men Charged With Shooting Dr. Jones

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—In the Central Court to-day Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones gave evidence that Alexander Jowett told him he…

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Policeman Shot: Man Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

BLAYNEY, Friday.—Constable Eric George Bail[?], 38, of the Blayney police, was shot three times in the stomach, at…

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Charged With Shooting Doctor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.—A few hours before Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones was shot on November 1, three of the four men accused…

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