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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

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Sentenced to Death by Germans

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.--The German views agency, quoting a German Foreign Office spokesman, said five De Gaullists in German hands…

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Heavy Bombers Help In Assault On Mandalay

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 2

R.A.F. Heavy Bomber Base, somewhere in Bengal, Sat.--The biggest concentration of heavy bombers yet assembled…

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Seven Days' Gaol At Coff's Harbour For Using a Truck

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 3

Before Mr. K. M. Dash, P.M., at the Coff's Harbour Police Court on Friday morning, two young soldiers, Raymond Keith…

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British View On Inter-Allied Court Causes Surprise

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.--The British Foreign Office had dumbfounded 14 members of the United Nations' War Crimes Committee, by…

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Police Court at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 4

At Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. K. M. Dash, P.M., the following cases were dealt with:—…

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New Magistrate Welcomed To Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 2

At Grafton Police Court yesterday, Mr. D. J. Lobban, on behalf of the legal fraternity, extended a welcome to Mr. K. M. Dash, who…

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Police Inquiries Into Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Detectives from the C.I.B. are in a western New South Walels town in connection with the murder of…

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After Hours' Drink at Hotel Leads To Police Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 4

A visit at night by four men to a hotel had a sequel in Grafton Police Court, before Mr. K. M. Dash, P.M., yesterday, when Michael O'Malley, Oswald Kelly, Joseph Hegarty and Stephen Everingham were convicted of being found on the licensed premises…

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Court Cases Postponed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 3

Mr. K. M. Dash, P.M., at Grafton Police Court on Monday postposed until Monday, February 19, the following…

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Alleged Theft While Servant

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wed.—On a charge that between July 16, 1940, and August 10, 1944, at St. George while a servant of the…

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Main Charged With Murders

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 3

ORANGE, Wed.—At the Orange Court to-day Cyril Norman, 52 was charged with the murder of Constable Eric George Bailey, at…

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Police Court Monthly Sitting

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 2

In the Dorrigo Police Court, on Wednesday. January 10th, P.M., Mr. K. N. Dash heard the following cases:—…

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£1740 In Notes Produced In Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thurs.—The sum of £1740 in notes was produced in court to-day, when two soldiers, Edward Ellis Evans, 22, and Oliver…

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Chinese Not Guilty Of Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sun.--Two Chinese. Lou Kungfui, 36, captain's boy, and Wu Ling, ship's engineer, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of…

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Charged With Unlawfully Driving Railway Engine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

MOREE, Mon.—Ernest John Slick, railway employee, William Bray Bartlett and George Boyce, employed on the local…

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Strip-Tease Artist And U.S. Paratrooper Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.--Elizabeth Marina Jones, 18, strip-tease artist, and Karl Gustav Hulten, 22, U.S. paratrooper, were…

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Cruelty Charges Against Police Sergeants

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—New South Wales Police Sergeants Stevens. Reilly and MacFarlane were to-day proceeded against by the…

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Man Charged With Murder Of U.S. Servicemen

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thurs.—Frederick William Everst, 24, was remanded to-day until next Tuesday on a charge of having murdered two…

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In Court on Murder Charges

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 3

Frederick William Everest in the Police Court in Brisbane awaits the commencement of the cases in which he was charged with having murdered two American Servicemen in Brisbane.—Lieut, Allen C. Middleton (top left) and Chief Petty Officer John D. McCollum, (lower left)…

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Woman Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 1

PERTH, Sun.--On a charge of having murdered John Donohoe. 41, lumper, late on Friday night, Mrs. Veronica Margaret Plat, 26,…

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