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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Police Must Not Sell Art Union Tickets

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon;--Instructions forbidding police to in future sell art union tickets were issued today by the Deputy Commissioner…

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Sinclair Denies Murder Of Taxi Driver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

SYYNEY, Tues.--In the Central Criminal Court, Mr. Justice Owen and a jury to-day commenced the second day of the…

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Jury Finds Sinclair Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.-- A Criminal Court jury this afternoon found Boyd Sinclair guilty of having murdered John Smillie, a taxi- driver, at Flemington on September, 1935. The jury took only one hour…

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Gaol for Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Thurs.-- A young man was sentenced to six months' gaol to-day in the Adelaide Police Court on a charge of having…

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Coff's Harbour Police Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR, Wed-- At the Coff's Harbour Police Court before Messrs. J. P. Grimmond and J. Sawyer, Js.P., Cecil…

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Alleges Theft Of Records

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.-- A full inquiry into an alleged theft from the records of the Army Security Department of file of more than…

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Boy Charged With Wounding

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.-- As a sequel to the reported attack on a taxi driver, a boy, aged 15 years, was to -day charged in the…

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Charge of Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.-- Charged at the Adelaide Police Court to-day with the murder of Shirley Horne (25), single, of Southwark, a…

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Lost Licensed Revolver Defendant Faces Police Charge Offence Proved; Information Dismissed

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 1

For failing to take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safe keeping of a revolver, licensed, which he had in his…

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Stern Gang Leader Arrested By Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. -- The deputy leader of the Stern Gang, Itzhak Yesternitsky, was caught in Tel Aviv last night, just as the Palestine police officers were preparing to end the hunt for him. Anna Stern, sister of…

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Royal Navy Sailors Fined At Coff's Harbour Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri. -- At the Coff's Harbour Police Court, before Mr. J. Grimmond. J. P. two sailors from the Royal…

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Germans Sentenced By Polish Military Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1946 · page 1

FRANFURT, Mon--Thirteen men and two women members of the "Free Germany" organisation have been sentenced to death for…

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Grafton Police Tracker Resigns From Force

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1946 · page 2

Sgt. Tracker W. Robinson, of the Grafton Police Station, has resigned from the force after 28 years of service. His resignation…

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Police Position In Youth Campaign Appeal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1946 · page 2

Grafton Police Inspector McEwan said yesterday he was concerned that recent metropolitan press reports might have an…

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Police Tracker Refused Two Oversea Offers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1946 · page 5

Bill Robinson, Grafton police tracker, who will leave the force at the end of this month, was noted on the North Coast for his…

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Gaol For Assault And Robbery

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Stanley Benjamin Fogarty (20), soldier, and Arthur Joseph Hansen (20)labourer, were sentenced to three…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 2

In the Grafton Licensing Court, before Mr. G. Berry, P.M., Mrs. Nielsine Emile Kiely, licensee of the Royal Hotel, South Grafton…

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Murder Charges Against Airman

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--As soon as the former Air Force officer, Neville George Clevely Heath, Was committed for trial from the…

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Two Years' Gaol For Robbery Under Arms

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.-- Michael James De[?]ey (19), labourer, was sen[?] to ten years' hard labour for robbery under arms by Judge…

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Ex-r.a.a.f. Officer Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Daniel Beard, a recently discharged R.A.A.F., officer, was to-day arrested and charged in the Special Federal…

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