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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

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Release Men For Police Force

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 December 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.-- Commonwealth authorities had agreed to the immediate release of all members of the police now…

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Failed to Surrender Petrol Coupons Localites Charged at Grafton Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 December 1945 · page 1

Charges of failure to surrender petrol coupons, with making false returns to the Liquid Fuel Control Board and with aiding and abetting in such offences, involving well-known Dorrigo residents, were heard before Mr. G. L,. Berry, Police Magistrate,…

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Ulmarra Police Court Motor Driver Convicted on Two Charges

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 December 1945 · page 4

ULMARRA, Sun.--At the Ulmarra Police Court on Friday, before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., Ernest John Reid, cream carter, of Ulmarra, was charged that on November 17 he drove a motor vehicle on Coldstream street, Ulmarra, while under the influence of…

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Police Search For Man

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 December 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.--Police are searching for a man who allegedly battered' two children at their heme at Windsor at the week-end…

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Wife Acquitted On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.-- In the Central Criminal Court to-day Mrs. Myra Tenanandra Crowther, 45, was acquitted on a charge of…

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Murder Of British Officer And Red Gross Girl

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 1

BATAVIA, Mon.-- The bodies of a British officer and a Red Cross girl who disappeared on December 4, from Padang Beach, Sumatra, where they had gone for a swim, have been found in the village of Tabin, a few miles away says a British Army statement…

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Collapsed In Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 December 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--a married woman collapsed, in the Quarter Sessions today, and had to be carried from the court, when her…

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Home Matron Sent to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 December 1945 · page 1

KATOOMBA. Thurs.--The Children's Home matron, who earlier this month was acquitted at the Parramatta Quarter…

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High Court Rule on Airlines Act

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 December 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--A judgment given by the High Court of Australia to-day rules that while the Commonwealth Government's National Airlines Act is valid, so…

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Banana Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 December 1945 · page 3

At the Coff's Harbour Police Court on Friday, before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., Sidney Allen Martin (21) and Kenneth Hugh…

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Coff's Harbour Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 5

Douglas French, on remand, appeared before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., at Grafton Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing…

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Court Confirms Valuations

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 2

Several appeals against Copmanhurst. Shire Council's valuations were dealt with before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., at Grafton…

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Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 December 1945 · page 1

CONDOBOLIN, Wed.--Charlie Owen, 20, half-caste, was committed for trial by the Coroner to-day, on a charge of murdering…

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Charged With High Treason

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 December 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--"This is a case of a man who described himself, perhaps you may think inaccurately, as a rat," declared the…

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Thief of Suitcase Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 December 1945 · page 3

On a charge of stealing a suitcase and its contents, valued at £9, the property of Geoffrey H. Patience, the Police…

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Clash Between Police and Bandits

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 December 1945 · page 1

HAMBURG, Thurs.--An armed battle between police and bandits in the British occupied zone occurred last night, when a police…

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To Be Tried By Chinese Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 December 1945 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Thurs.-- Despite the French Consul-General's vigorous protests, Roland Sar[?]ey, former director of the French…

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To Die for Murder of Airmen

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 December 1945 · page 1

MOROTAI, Fri.--Found guilty to-day of the murder of two Australian airmen at Sario, near Manado, on June 19 this year,…

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Japs Listen To Court Verdict

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 December 1945 · page 1

After a three-day trial at Morotai. on a charge of having murdered an R.A.A.F. prisoner of war, Lieut. Asaoaga (left) was found not guilty, while Ptes. Susuika and Oichi were found guilty by an Australian court. This photo shows them…

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Wife Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 December 1945 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--No application was made for bail when Ann Gourlay, 56, appeared in the Newcastle Court this morning on…

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