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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Leakage of Impending Police Raids

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—The Acting Commissioner of Police (Mr. Scott) has, called for a report on the alleged leakage of…

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Police To Get New Plane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—The Avro Anson plane bought by the New South Wales Police Department will be exchanged for a more…

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Death For Murder Of Chinese P.O.W.

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 1

RABAUL, Tues.—For the murder of four Chinese prisoners of war on New Britain in April, 1943, a Japanese soldier and Formosan…

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Attempt To Influence Arbitration Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.—The Federal Opposition Leader (Mr. Menzies) to-day criticised Labour's "scandalous" attempt to…

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Jewish Terrorists Raid Police Station

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Wed.—One Arab policeman was killed and one British and Arab constable were wounded in terrorists' raids on the Ramatgan police station. Between 20 and 30 Jewish…

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Lost Faith in Arbitration Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.—Numbers of trade unionists who had lost faith in the Arbitration Court were increasing, declared the…

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Woman Charged With Theft

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The police claimed in the Central Court to-day that part of a large sum of money allegedly stolen by a…

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Police Stop Two-up Games

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Police acted promptly when two-up games were commenced in Sydney streets as the Anzac procession…

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Man Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Henry Roy Bowden (38), laborer, was before the police court at Redfern to-day, charged with the murder of…

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Three Men On Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Three men accused of the murder of Myles Henry ("Face") , McKeon, were remanded to next Tuesday, when…

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Jews Attack Police Station

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Fri.—A [?] explosion was heard when 40 armed Jews attacked a police station between Tol Aviv and Jaffa…

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Police Robbed While Lecturing Boys

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 5

While a sergeant and a constable were lecturing a class of Glasgow schoolboys about juvenile delinquency their…

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Men Sentenced For Stealing R.A.A.F. Property

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.—Thefts of R.A.A.F. property resulted in 12 past and present members of the force being charged at…

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Kiosk Murder Witness Breaks Down At Trial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—A brother of the kiosk murder victim, Mrs. Jeannette Wicks, broke down and buried his face in his hands…

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Police Fire On Group Of Workers Near Teheran

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 3

TEHERAN, Mon.—Two persons were killed and three wounded when police fired on a group of workers en route to…

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Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—A former inmate of an asylum has been charged with the murder at Yarra Bay on October 25, 1940, of Henry…

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Girl Charged With Stealing Cheques

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Joan Josephine Jennings (19) was remanded, on £100 bail in the Central Court to-day on a charge of…

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Kiosk Murder Suggestion Revolver Was Instrument Used

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—A suggestion that a revolver found in the home of Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, had been used on the kiosk murder victim, Mrs. Wicks, was made to-day by a police witness in the Central Criminal Court, when the second day's…

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Gaol for Scientist

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.—Dr. Alan Nunnmay, British atom scientist, pleaded guilty when he appeared at the Old Bailey charged with…

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Sentenced for Attempted Rape

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 6

LISMORE, Wed.—A half-caste aborigine, Ron Gully (18), of Coff's Harbour, was sentenced to five years' hard labour by Judge…

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