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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

484 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 25

Men Charged With Attempted Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--The trial of four men charged with the attempted murder of Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones was unexpectedly…

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Theft From Cathedral

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Mon.--Burglars early this morning blew open a safe at St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral, Auckland, and stole…

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Taxation Officer Attends Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.--The Department of Taxation and the Crown Solicitor's Department each had an officer present in…

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Charged With Shooting Doctor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—Reputable Macquarie street doctors do not take their wives to parties such as Dr. Jones took his wife to on…

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Tennis Player Fined for Theft

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.--Eric Montgomery Maidens, Queensland's third ranking tennis player, pleaded guilty at the City Court…

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Police Search For Murderer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--Detective's investigating the shooting of Joseph Morgan Houston, 42, solicitor, outside his Rose Bay flat on…

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Charge Dismissed At Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 March 1945 · page 2

A charge against Frank Murville, of Ilarwill, Maclean, of having behaved in an offensive manner to Constable Lee, of…

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Army Commanders For Final Assault Against Japan

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1945 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Sun.—The "Christian Science Monitor's" Washington correspondent, Roscoe Drummond, says reorganisation…

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Language Charge At Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1945 · page 2

Bernard Parkinson failed to Appear before Maclean Police Court on Wednesday to answer of having used bad language at Harwood…

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Soviet Assault Against Stettin

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.—Using 30 divisions the Red Army has opened an assault against Stettin, in what the Germans fear may be the start of the offensive to envelop…

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Special Court For Conspiracy Cases

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 2

A special sitting of the Quarter Sessions Court will be held at Grafton on Tuesday, May 29, for the hearing of certain conspiracy…

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Theft From Bookmaker

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—The possibility of an organised gang of thieves operating against bookmakers on Sydney racecourses, is being…

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Truck Driver Charged with a Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 4

Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, J.P., at Grafton Police Court yesterday, John Barry Murphy, 27, truck driver, was charged…

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Police Search In Queensland

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thurs.—A large posse of police are now searching a wide area of far south-western Queensland for a cowboy they…

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Inquiry Into Gaol Death

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.—At the inquest to-day, into the death of Ker[?]y Raymond Jones, 24, who was serving a sentence, witnesses…

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Gaol Sentence For Estate Agent

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—Alan Burwood Lucas. 40, land and estate agent, Prince's Highway. Tempe, was sentenced to 23 months' gaol at…

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Cowboy Detained By Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Fri.—The cowboy wanted for questioning in connection with the death of an 11-year old boy, Warwick Terlien, of…

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Police Seize 1800 Revolvers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Revolvers, which at the outbreak of the war were hard to procure are now being sold in hotel bars for…

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Greatest Assault Against Japan

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 April 1945 · page 3

GUAM, Sun.—It was officially disclosed that the Super-Fortress attack on Honshu yesterday was the greatest assault thus far…

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Court Action Against A.b.c

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.—In the High Court Chambers to-day, Mr. Justice Williams granted Ex-Senator J. P. ("Digger") Dunn leave to…

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