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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Application For Police Award

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--The Conciliation Committee has been authorised by the Chief judge of the Commonwealth Arbitration…

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Father Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 December 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sat.--At the Camperdown Police Station early today William Frederick Cooper (65), pensioner, was charged with…

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Theft From Club

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 December 1946 · page 2

CCANBERRA, Sun.--The Royal Canberra Golf Club was entered last night by cracksmen who removed the safe containing the…

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Blames Woman For Murder Of Wife

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 December 1946 · page 1

PARIS, Sun.--Alain de Bernadi de Segoyer who, is charged with the murder of his wife, startled the court by accusing his alleged mistress, Irene Le Beau, of murdering his wife with a revolver…

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Ten Years Gaol for Dawson

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--David Steward Dawson (24), company director, was to-day sentenced to 10 years hard labour, after being found guilty of having maliciously wounded George Rankin Mekav. with intent to do grevious bodily harm…

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Father Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--In the Central Court to-day, William Cooper (65), pensioner, was remanded on a charge of…

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Three Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 4

Charged with having in his possession three ladies' milanese slips, reasonably suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully…

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Gaol Escapee Hid At Military Camp

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thurs.--John Victor Travis, 20-year-old gunman, who recently escaped from Boggo Road Gaol in company with two other prisoners, had Christmas dinner at a cafe in Redbank yesterday…

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Gaol For Assaulting Wife On Christmas Morning

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A man was sentenced to three months' gaol for assaulting his wife on Christmas morning…

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Police Raid Paris Night Clubs

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 1

PARIS, Thurs.--While the traditional French feast, called Revesson, which takes place after midnight was being celebrated in…

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Woman Remanded On Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Mary Winifred Piggott (31), of Surrey Hills, was remanded to January 17, when she appeared in the Central Court…

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Granted Bail On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Mrs. Jean Ethel Wright (31), of Strathfield, who is on remand on a charge of havng murdered her two…

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Murder Charge Against Former N.S.W, Minister

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.--Thomas John Ley, former Minister of Justice in New South Wales, has been charged with murder. Ley is described as a 66-year-old…

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Told Court Of Execution

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 December 1946 · page 1

Colin Fleming Brien, who recovered from a Japanese attempt to behead him while he was their prisoner in 1942. He…

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