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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Charged With Doing Bodily Harm

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Thurs.—Police to-day visited a house at Bagnoo, via Wauchope, and arrested a single man at his parents' home…

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Police Resignations Nothing Abnormal

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.—There was nothing abnormal about resignations from the New South Wales police force, since the wartime…

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Yamashita Before Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita (third from left), supreme commander of the Japanese forces in the Philippines during the last 11 months of the occupation of the islands, stands his trial on charges that he is responsible for the atrocities…

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Report by Nazi Foreign Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs.—A report by the Nazi Foreign Police Office, boasting of strongly pro-German activities by anti-Communists in the "General Staff" of the R.A.F. was disclosed by the American prosecution at the Nuremberg trial yesterday,…

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Police Appeal To Man And Woman Kidnapping Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, Thurs.—Chief Detective Walter Storms, in a broadcast, asked an unidentified man and woman to communicate with him…

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Death For Stealing Fat Ration

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

COLOGNE, Sun.—An Allied military court sentenced to death two gangleaders who led a raid on a fat storage cellar and stole…

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Police Inquiries Into Widow's Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—Police are investigating the death of Mary Buchanan Whitehead (42), widow, of O'Sullivan road, Rose Bay…

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District Court Date Changes

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

His Honor Judge Storkey has advised that the Grafton sittings of the District Court and Court of Quarter Sessions have been…

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Plans to Remodel Arbitration Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—Proposals for the remodelling of the Federal Arbitration Court put forward by the A.C.T.U., were revealed in…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 6

BRISBANE, Wed.—Charged in the City Police Court to-day with the wilful murder of Bridget Guy on or about December 29, 1945,…

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Germans Charged Before Russian Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.—Eighteen, Germans i,ncluding three Generals, were charged before the Minsk district military court with…

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At Grafton Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

The Attorney-General, accompanied by Mr. Wingfield, M.L.A., visited the Grafton Gaol in the afternoon. He was met by the…

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Man Found Critically Injured In Dorrigo Street Dies Unable to Tell Police How Injuries Received Beech Street Mystery

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

No solution, although two theories have been advanced, as to how a man found critically injured in Beech street, Dorrigo, on…

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Officer Faces Court-Martial

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

LAE, Friday.—Charged on two counts of giving intelligence to the enemy after his capture in New Britain. Captain Joseph…

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Jap Officer Murderer Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 3

MOROTAI, Sun.—Found guilty of the murder of three Australian prisoners of war, Lieut. Colonel Camura has been…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 5

In the Quarterly Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday, the Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, approved an application by William…

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Training Police Cadets

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

The training course for cadets for the Queensland police force include life saving. Picture shows cadets "rescuing" other cadets during life saving instruction at Ithaca baths, Brisbane…

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Bail Granted Man Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—In Chambers to-day Mr. Justice Street granted bail in £1000 to Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, who has…

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Charged With Theft Of £2012

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Charged with stealing £2012 from the Carlton Hotel, Joyce Walsh, 19, clerk, pleaded not guilty, at the Central…

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How Police Train Cadets

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 3

Eighty-four cadets, of ages ranging from 16 to 19, are receiving intensive training for the Queensland, police force. The course includes law, police duties, typing and shorthand, first aid, life saving, traffic duties, wrestling and other forms of…

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