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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

773 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 38 of 39

Fined For Leaving Police Force

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Former Constable Eric Carruthers, of Maroubra (23), potential Olympic swimmer, who was yesterday…

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Gaol For Setting Fire To Cabin

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Pleading guilty to having set fire to a cabin of the liner Asturias on November 22, John Henry Holmes…

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Wife for Trial on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Evidence that Mrs. Lilian Gardiner (50) had said she, had hit her, husband with an axe, arid that she hoped…

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Outburst in Court by Mother

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--When William Hollebone, was being taken from the dock at the Central Criminal Court to-day, where he…

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Acquittal On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--After his acquittal at the Central Criminal Court to-day of the murder of Alfred William Dawes, the…

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Gaol Breakers Before Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--Arthur Ernest Halliday (36) and Derwent Evans Arkinstall (26) who were captured yesterday after having…

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Seasonal Compliments To Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 2

The compliments of the season were extended to the Police Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Traffic Cases Before The Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 4

Several cases under the Traffic Act were heard before the Police Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Court Sequel To Boxing Match

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 4

A sequel to the disturbance at McKittrick Park, South Grafton, at the boxing match, on December 6, was enacted before the…

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Charged With Theft Of Safe

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Horace Joseph Edwards, 45, dealer, was remanded at the Redfern Court to-day on a charge of having stolen…

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Charged with Operating Big Black Market

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tues.--Two American army officers and an American civilian have been charged with operating a vast black…

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Policeman On Charge Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Constable William Joseph Cable (31), said in the Central Criminal Court today, that he did not believe his…

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Charged With Armed Hold-up

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Police to-day arrested a 20-year-old youth and charged him with armed hold-up. The youth was found in the…

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Heath Sentence: Found Guilty Of Murder Of Wife

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--In the Central Criminal Court to-day, William Joseph Cable, 31, was found guilty of murdering his wife, Audrey…

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Three Months' Gaol Assaulted Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 6

At Coffs Police Court Mervyn Skinner (30), an aboriginal, was sentenced to three months hard labour on a charge of assaulting the police…

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Shouting and Coo-eeing "Only Having Fun," Says Defendant Escapade Costs £5 at Police Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 1

When caught shouting and coo-eeing in the main street and pushing people about the footpath, Herbert James Stevenson…

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Charged With Murder Of Beautiful Wife

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 1

DARIS, Friday.--The most sensational trial since "modern Blue Beard," Dr. Petiots, began in the Seine Assizes, when Alain, de Bernadi Segoyer, grandson of a Judge, was charged with the murder of his wife, whom he allegedly strangled in the presence…

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Theft of Clothing

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--When the driver of a truck was in a shop in King street to-day, thieves stole the truck, drove it away and…

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Gaol For Shooting At Detective

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Alexander Henry Mitchell (16) was to-day semenced by Judge Kirby to 12 pears penal servitude for having…

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Alleged Assault in Precincts of House

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--Incidents in which Mr. Phillip Piratin, a Communist member of the Commons, was allegedly assaulted and battered within the precincts of the House were referred to the Committee of Privileges…

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