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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

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Parents And Daughter Dead: Tragic Phone Call To Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 3

SCONE, Mon.-- Following an eight-hour ambulance trip today from Glen Rock Station, Moonan Flat, Henry Hearn, 52, station manner, who yesterday notified the Nundle police by telephone, that he had killed his wife and daughter, and intended…

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Women Charged With Abduction

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 3

LEETON', Tues.--Ellen Callan and Anne Leggat were charged at the Leeton Police Court to-day with having abducted…

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Police Suspect Foul Play

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 3

HOB ART, Tues--Foul play is now suspected by the police in the case of seven-year-old Evelyn Maughan's disappearance at the…

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Arrested for Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Wed.--Police have arrested Stanley Winwood McKissick, Reid, aged 40, on a charge of murdering Mrs. Lila…

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Before Court On Two-Year-Old Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.--Charged in the Brisbane Court to-day with wounding Joseph Fanesi, at Fitzroy, Victoria, on July 27, 1943,…

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Radio Traitor Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 1

PARIS, Thurs.--The High Court sentenced to death Paul Ferdonnet, so-called radio traitor of Stuttgart. He was arrested while…

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Gaol For Posing As R.A.A.F. Officer

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A 20-year- old laborer, Donald Albert Trudgett, who it was alleged had falsely represented himself to be…

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Failed To Stop: Shot By Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY. Thurs.--After ignoring a call to stop a 16-year-old youth was shot in the leg by a detective this afternoon. With…

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Gaol for Theft of Shirting Material

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--Three R.A.A.F. ground staff members and two civilians were sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to-day to three…

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Gaol for Five Years

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--In the Quarter Sessions to-day George Henry Chapman, 24, iceworker, was sentenced to five years' gaol for…

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Gaol For Posing As Naval Commander

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--A man win posed as a naval commander and wore seven medals was sent to gaol to-day for two months by…

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War Prisoners On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.--The trial has concluded of seven German war prisoners who were accused of the murder of a fellow prisoner…

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Mass Murder And Suicide By Women And Children

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 3

MANILA, Friday.--Haruo Ito, Formosan civilian employee from the Jap Army captured at Mindanao, told interrogators a grim story from 40 women and children about committing mass murder and suicide in Davao…

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Police Inspector Announces Retirement

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 July 1945 · page 2

Police inspector B. H. Baxter announced his approaching retirement from the force during the M.U. Lodge banquet on Saturday…

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Police Saddle Stealing Charge Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 2

The story of the disappearance from a policeman's horse of a saddle, and of its discovery next morning at the bottom of…

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Gardener On Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 4

William G. Robertson pleaded guilty before' Mr. G. Perry, Police Magistrate, at Grafton Court yesterday to two charges…

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Youths Charged With Stealing £1200

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Five youths, all 17 years of age, appeared at the Children's Court to-day, charged with stealing £1200 in…

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Alien Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1945 · page 3

ALICE SPRING Tues.-- Two aliens fought in a civil aliens camp at Hawley Siding, Northern Territory, last December, and as a…

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Two Young Men Sent To Gaol For Burglary

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1945 · page 4

Two young men, each with a list of previous convictions, were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labor,…

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Theft Of Cigarettes And Chocolates

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Detectives are investigating the theft of between 35,000 and 40,000 cigarettes and a large quantity of chocolates from…

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