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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Death Sentence Commuted, But Court Order Defied

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed.—Yesterday Judge Brennan issued an order for a pigeon, which was visiting the court room, to be shot, but agreed to rescind the order if the bird was removed. The pigeon was removed, but to-day defied the ejectment order, and put in…

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Alleged Theft Of Cattle

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 2

William George Robertson, 32, farmer, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr J. B. Hodgson, J.P., yesterday,…

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Child Shot Dead: Uncle Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—As a sequel to the death of Janice Coyle, aged seven years, from a pea-rifle bullet wound received at her…

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No Intervention By Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 3

NEW ORLEANS (U.S.A.), Thurs.—The Louisiana Supreme Court declined to intervene in a second attempt to electrocute a…

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Queensland Court Cancels Union Registration

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thurs.—Registration of the Queensland branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union was cancelled…

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Nazis Charged With Murder Of Unarmed Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 1

DACHAU, Friday.—The third major war crimes trial opened when Colonel-General Sepp Dietech, S.S. Generals Fritz…

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Gaol Sentences

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 1

BRUSSELS, Fri.—Jean Grauls, Burgomaster of Brussels throughout the occupation, was sentenced to five years by a court-martial…

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Alleged Theft Of £900

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Clifford Robert Hagen (45) was remanded in the Central Court to-day on a charge of having stolen £900 from…

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Murder Of Aborigine Started Tribal War

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 3

DARWIN, Sun.—The Cape Stewart Methodist missionary, Rev. Ellemore, who has just arrived at Darwin by lugger, brought news of the murder of an aborigine which started a tribal war. He said an aborigine,…

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Bicycle Stealing Prevalent At Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 3

LISMORE, Mon.—During the hearing of a charge at the Lismore Court to-day against Hilton Douglas Murray, 27[?] of 183 Union…

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Hearing Of Stealing Charge Postponed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 4

When the case in which William George Robertson was charged with stealing at Trenayr five cows and two calves…

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His Last Chance, Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 4

The Police Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton Police Court yesterday, said there was a limit to the number of…

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Police Dog Dead

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—The famous police dog, the Alsatian Zoe, died to-night in Alexandria police kennels. She was 11 years old, and…

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Arrests For Murder Of Australian Crimes Investigators

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1

BATAVIA, Mon.—Two Japanese and three Indonesians who were arrested by the Indonesian Republican People's Army,…

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Police Found Dice Game In Progress

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—When police raided premises in Sydney road, Manly, on Friday night they found a dice game known as…

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To Pay For Time Lost By Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—Walter John Cooper (24) was ordered to pay £24 compensation to the Crown, for time lost by police…

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Instrument Left in Patient's Abdomen Police Allege

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.—Police alleged in the Corner's Court to-day that a surgical instrument was found in the abdomen of a women two months after an operation and that she died after a second operation…

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Charged With Conspiracy

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—Two of the accused in the case in which five persons had been charged with conspiracy to pervert the…

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Convicts Killed During Gaol Riot

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 1

QUETTA, Tues.—Twenty-eight convicts were killed and several injured when the authorities at the Central Gaol at Mach, 30 miles…

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Criticism Of Police Boys' Club

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Objections to the way in which the Police Boys' Club was administered were raised in the Presbyterian…

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