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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

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Mass Murderers Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1945 · page 2

When British forces of liberation arrived at the Belsen extermination camp on April 15. they found 13,000 corpses lying unburied. They also found the human wrecks which had not yet succumbed to the acts of barbarism committed by Gestapo…

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Charged With Shop Breaking Committed For Trial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1945 · page 5

Robert Martin, on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing from the shop of Stanley Bailey, of South Grafton, on…

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May Reopen Case Of Attempted Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--One of the State's most sensational cases of attempted murder will be opened shortly by the Minister for…

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Ex-Servicemen Join Police Force

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Ex-Servicemen with fighting experience on every battle front of the second world war, made up nearly half…

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Court Approves Fortnight's Leave

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--The extension of the present period of seven days' annual leave to one of 14 days. was to-day approved…

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Death Sentence For Criminal Assault

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Frank Hansen, 18-year-old R.A.N. rating, who it was alleged, had criminally assaulted Mrs. Grace Winifred…

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Not Guilty of Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--At the Central Criminal Court to-day, Herbert Brown, 37, coloured bush-worker and jockey, was found…

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Wife Not Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The mother of six children was charged in the Bendigo Supreme Court to-day with the murder of…

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Supreme Court Judgment On Weighing Cane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1945 · page 3

A judgment of considerable interest to cane growers has been made in the Supreme Court of New, South Wales by Mr…

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Police Court Monthly Sittings

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 November 1945 · page 1

Police Magistrate Mr. G. S. Berry paid his monthly visit to Dorrigo on Wednesday, 14th inst., When the following cases were…

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Pole Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.--According to the Hamburg radio an Allied Military Court sentenced to death 19-year-old Pole, J. Niebulek,…

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Charged With Attempted Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--A man charged in the Kogarah Court to-day, with the attempted murder of his wife and five years old daughter, was…

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Raid By Russian Military Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.--A large body of armed Russian military police on Sunday night raided the Berlin headquarters of the British…

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Charged With Wearing French Swim Suit

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--The case in which Miss Pat Niland is charged with having behaved offensively in a public place, and Lionel Van…

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South Grafton Burglary

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 November 1945 · page 2

Pleading guilty to a charge of breaking, entering and stealing from the shop of Stanley Bailey at South Grafton on…

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Gaol for Receiving Stolen Property

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 November 1945 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wed.--On a charge of having received two rolls of material which he knew to have been stolen Israel Guinsberg, 49…

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Five Years' Hard Labour For Armed Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 November 1945 · page 5

Five years' hard labour, with a recommendation that the sentences be served on a prison farm, were imposed by Judge…

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Alleged Assault Case Dismissed

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 November 1945 · page 2

At the Dorrigo Police Court, before Mr. G. S. Berry, P.M., on November 14, Douglas Herbert Haydon brought a charge against…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 November 1945 · page 6

Before Mr. G. L. Berry, Police Magistrate, at the Fair Rents Court yesterday, the hearing was concluded of an application by…

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Believes Court Will Clear Him

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 December 1945 · page 1

NUREMBERG, Tues.--Dr. Schacht believes that world opinion as well as the Nuremberg Court will clear him after he has stated his case to the court, according to his counsel, who was interviewed by the American Associated Press…

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