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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Two Men Charged With Liverpool Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tues.—Three men have been arrested in connection with the Liverpool tragedy in which a boy was hanged by…

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No Police Station

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 2

The Premier's Department has advised Mr. D. H. Drummond M.L.A., that because of unprecedented personnel shortages it…

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Court Increases Sentences

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 4

OSLO, Tues.—After hearing appeals against sentences on two Quisling Ministers last November the Supreme Court increased the…

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American Court Rejects Appeal By Yamashita

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tues.—In a 7000-word majority judgment, with Justices Murphy and Rutledge dissenting, the Supreme…

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Charred Heart As Court Exhibit

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.—A charred heart, allegedly taken from a fire in a paddock, was tendered as an exhibit to-day in the Police Court…

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Not Elected to International Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.—The Australian, Professor Bailey, has not been elected to the International Court. He received the requisite…

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Students And Police Clash In Cairo

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 3

CAIRO, Sun.—Over 50 students and about 30 police were injured in rioting at Amma Bridge, over the Nile…

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Police Shoot At Demonstrators

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 1

CAIRO, Mon.—Police fired at workers and students demonstrating in Alexandria yesterday. About 50 were wounded. The…

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Men Charged With Theft From Train

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police investigations into thefts from goods & trains between Sydney and Brisbane led to the arrest at gunpoint last night of two mien, who, it is alleged, had thrown £250 worth of footwear and drapery from a goods train at…

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Labourer Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 2

Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, J.P., in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Eric Raymond Williams, 21, labourer, appeared…

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Sent To Gaol For Carrying Revolver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—At the Central Police Court to-day Arthur Joseph O'Keefe (22); wharf labourer, was sent to gaol for two years, for…

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Assaulted Police Sergeant

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Tues.—At the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., Victor Groves, 31,…

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To Reorganise Jap Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK.—Tues.—Police Chief Valentine has accepted General MacArthur's invitation reorganise the Japanese police,…

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Nazis Sentenced For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

HERFORD (Germany), Wed.—Five S.S. officers were sentenced to death by hanging for the murder at Enschede in…

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To Hang For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 4

HOBART, Wed.—Frederick Henry Thompson, waterside worker, convicted of murdering Evelyn Mary Maughan. 8 years,…

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Shots Fired in Furious Police Chase

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 2

Revolver shots were fired during a furious 60 miles an hour chase last night by a Grafton police car attempting to…

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American Charged With Broadcasting Nazi Propaganda

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs.—The British Security Police arrested and handed over to the Americans the former American United Press…

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Two Charged With Illegal Use Of Car

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 2

Two young men appeared in Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, J.P., charged with having…

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Kiosk Murder Death Was Due To Strangulation

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mrs. Jeanette Wicks (45), whose battered body was found in her York street kiosk on January 2, died from strangulation, and not from blows on her head, according to medical evidence tendered at the resumed inquest to-day into…

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Many Japs Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.—Already 58 Japanese have been sentenced to death for war crimes in the Pacific area, the Minister for the…

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