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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Arrest After Gaol Release

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 4

Arrested yesterday as he was released from the Grafton Gaol after serving a sentence, William Augustine McIntie, 53, labourer,…

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Detective's Evidence in Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--A detective alleged in the City Coroner's Court to-day that after three shots had been fired in a police car at Matraville, on August 11, he stopped the car and turned to find Sydney Grant, also known as Greenup (28) pointing an automatic…

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Charge Of Stealing From Train Before Coff's Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Wed.--At the Coff's Harbour Police Court, before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., Alexander Clifford Scott…

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Alleged Theft Of Wrist Watch

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 2

Arrested by Detective Sergeant D. C. Dallas and Railway Detective M. Griffith at Grafton on Tuesday, Victor Weeah Oehm, 26,…

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Police Action On Unregistered Dogs

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 4

Grafton police intend to enforce regulations dealing with the registration of dogs, said Police Inspector McEwan yesterday…

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Gaol For Assault On Old Woman

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--James Vincent Cameron (18), of Glebe, was sentenced to two years' gaol when he was found guilty of having…

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Police Court At Coff's Harbour

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs.--At Coff's Harbour Police Court to-day. Mr. G. L. Berry, Police Magistrate, gave judgment in a…

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Men Charged With Wounding

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--Following an open finding in the Barwon River inquest early this week, the murder charges against Edward…

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Police Tightening Up On Squatting

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.--While the police were tightening up precautions against squatting, the Secretary of the Communist Party (Mr Pollitt) in a speech declared: "It is necessary to warn those who talk glibly about eviction. Let there be no mistake…

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Dead On Arrival At Police Station

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.-- Found wandering in a dazed condition in a lane way at Darlinghurst last night, Arthur Howarth, 70, of Tempe,…

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Sentenced For Watch Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 5

"For 40 years I have been hearing the story about the chappie who bought something from another chappie in the…

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Shire Revision Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 2

A court for the revision of supplementary lists of electors was held before. Mr. G. L. Berry, Police Magistrate, at Grafton…

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Deaths in Family Mystify Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.--Police are mystified by sudden deaths among a family at Kilburn. On Saturday, a three years old boy…

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Anti - Squatter Move Made By Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.--Scotland Yard's anti-squatter precautions were put into effect last night when an anonymous telephone warning was received that squatters intended invading empty houses in a row facing Regent's Park, says the "Daily…

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Fraudulent Car Conversion Alleged In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 5

The Police Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton Police Court, yesterday, committed, for trial, William Edward Tollis, on…

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Solicitor Deplores Police Conditions

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Tuesday.-- At a smoke social held to honour Detective- Senior Constable C. T. Lyons, recently transferred…

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Police Evidence Of Cock Fighting

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tues.-- The bodies of three game roosters, a number of live birds, and 25 needle pointed spurs were among…

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Incident at Military Police Station

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 1

BERLIN, Wed.--A threat to call out a company of a Russian guard to fight it out is alleged to have been made by the Russian Lieutenant Morosov, at an American military policed station near Templehof aerodrome on Saturday night when Americans…

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Police Court Found Drunk and Indecent Language the September List

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 2

Included in the list of cases heard before Mr. G. L. Berry, PM, at the September sittings of the Dorrigo Police Court were the…

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Indecent Language Should Have Known Better' Police Court Charge Brings £3 FINE

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 2

Charged with using indecent language on the evening of August 17, Thomas Mooney failed to answer at the September sittings…

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