The Bielsdown Creek Blaze Court Charge Brings £10 Fine Defendant Says He Was Having a Smoke
A grass fire which jumped the Bielsdown River, raced across portion of the Recreation reserve and Police paddock right up to…
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Courts & crime, 1946
773 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 39
Sentenced On Mutiny Charges
SINGAPORE, Fri.--Convicted by a court-martial on charges of mutiny at Muar camp, Kuala Lumpur, 243 paratroopers of the…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--George Thompson (56), seaman, was sentenced to the maximum of one month's gaol by Mr. Hardwick, S.M., at…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--A sentence of one year's hard labour was imposed on a man at the Central Police Court to-day, for carrying…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--Me[?]yn Garvie (39), labourer was remanded to October 11, when he appeared in the Central Court to-day on a…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--When the Police Association claimed a pay increase before the Conciliation Commission to-day, Mr. F. Lendon, for…
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Two men who escaped from the South Grafton lock-up on Thursday appeared before Mr. H. Breakell, J.P., at Grafton…
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Charged with having stolen a suitcase and a number of articles belonging to J. A. Coyle, at Grafton on September 24, Harold…
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George Henderson, 58, labourer, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of having stolen a bicycle,…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--A man was charged at the Central Court to-day with having stolen 36,000 one-gallon petrol tickets. He was…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--When police intercepted two youths at Richmond shortly after midnight on August 17 one of them…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--It was alleged at the North Sydney Court to-day that a motorist wilfully run down a man, then drove away…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Leslie Terrance Brady (23) was sentenced to six years hard labour at the Central Court to-day for the…
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The New South Wales Police Recruiting Committee will arrive in Coff's Harbour on October 10, and will be at Grafton on…
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BRISBANE, Tues.--A theory that petrol stolen from the tanks of a plane caused a fatal crash at Mackay was advanced in the…
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FRANKFURT, Thurs.--Bavarian purge courts have sentenced eight priests to detention in laboh camps for "active Nazism."…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Israel Golovsky (49), manufacturer, described by the police as "a man of substance and standing,"…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Police Constable (First Class) William Joseph Cable (34), stationed in the Bondi police division, was…
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JACKSONVILLE (Florida), Fri. -- A Suwanee county constable, Tom Crews, was sentenced to one year's gaol and fined 1000 dollars…
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SYDNEY, Fri. -- William Joseph Cable (30), police constable, was to-day charged at Paddington Court with having murdered his…
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