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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Girl Bound Over On Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—In the Quarter Sessions to-day a girl who stole £1700 from the safe at the Hotel Carlton, Sydney, where she had…

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Police Chase Missing Car, Shot Fired

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 2

The story of a chase by the police of two men in a car, which had been reported missing from Coff's Harbour, was…

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Shooting Duel With Police And Army Officers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

TOWNSVILLE, Mon.—A boy who engaged in a shooting duel with Queensland police and American Army officers was…

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Kiosk Murder Mysterious Lights In Victim's Flat

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—There was a sensation at the Coroner's Court to-day when counsel for Douglas Ronald Morris asked Detective Constable R. W. Kelly, of the C.I.B., if he knew of mysterious lights in the Potts' Point flat of Mrs. Jeanette Wicks, less than five…

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Charged With High Treason

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 1

HONG KONG, Wed.—In the first formal local action against accused collaborators, with the Japanese, a summary…

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Australian Charged With Aiding Enemy

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.—An Australian, Ronald David Barker, also called Voisey (25), seaman, of no fixed abode, was among the five…

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Kiosk Murder Adjournment Contact Witness

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Although it had been expected that the inquest into the death of Mrs. Jeanette Wicks (47), in her York street kiosk, on January 2, would end to-day, the hearing was still incomplete when the court rose this afternoon until to-morrow…

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Mrs. Livesey Before Adelaide Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wed.—The Crown regarded it as an ordinary case of obtaining money under false pretences, despite the fact that…

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Gaol for Australian

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday.—The Australian, Ronald David Barker, was sentenced to two years' hard labour for recruiting, or…

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Police Court the Monthly Sitting Light List

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

Police Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, had only a light list of cases to deal with on the occasion of his February visit to…

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Aborigine On Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs.—At the Court of Petty Sessions to-day, Ron Gundy, 18, an aboriginal labourer, was…

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Kiosk Murder Journalist To Stand Trial

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Standing quietly at attention Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, to-day heard the City Coroner Mr. Cookson) commit him for trial on a…

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Man's Death Still Mystery Coroner's Court Reveals No New Evidence Inquiry Into Death of Charles Vincent Graham

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 1

After hearing evidence at the Dorrigo Court House, on Wednesday, 13th inst. into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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Fostered Finland's Entry Into War Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.—The former President of Finland (Mr. Ryti) was sentenced to ten years' hard labour, and the former Prime Minister (Mr. Rangell) to six years by the War Guilt Court for fostering Finland's entry into the war in 1941 and working against…

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Court Sequel to Tussle with Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 5

An incident in a Grafton cafe on February 19, and a subsequent tussle with police officers, led to three men…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 5

Before Mr. G. L. Berry, Police Magistrate, at the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday, James Charles Dunbar, of Brushgrove,…

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Coroner Finds Jap Guilty of Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 3

COWRA, Mon.—The Coroner (Mr. F. Arnold) said to-day that under National Security Regulations he could not commit a…

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Sentenced By Military Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 1

MADRID, Tues.—The military court at Alcala de Henares sentenced three of the 37 accused of organising clandestine Socialist…

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Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 4

John Davis, 24, labourer, appeared before the Court of Petty Sessions, Coff's Harbour, on Monday, on a charge of stealing…

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Charge Of Stealing

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 4

Information was given to police at Grafton yesterday that money was missing from the bar till at the Post Office Hotel, Victoria…

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