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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Quarter Sessions and District Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 March 1946 · page 2

The Grafton Court of Quarter Sessions and District Court will open before Judge Storkey, a Grafton Courthouse, on Tuesday…

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Charged With Assault

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.—At the Court of Petty Sessions,' Coff's Harbour, on Friday, Ron Gundy, 18, an aboriginal' labourer, was…

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The Magistrate Gave Him Another Chance

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.—Mervyn Shea, 18, fitter and turner, appeared before the Court of Petty Sessions, Coff's…

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Remanded On Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 4

Described by the police as young man of below average mentality, Eric Raymond Williams was charged before the Police…

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Insulted Police Constable

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR, Mon.—At the Court of Petty Sessions to-day James Alfred Russell, 33, labourer, pleaded guilty to a…

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Graf ton Soldier Got 3 Months In Gestapo Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—He made only one attempt to escape from the Germans, and that got him three months in a Gestapo gaol…

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Eighteen Months For Stealing

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 4

Eighteen months' hard labour, to be served at the expiration of a sentence already being served, was imposed by Judge…

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Young Englishman Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tues.—When 34-year-old King's College lecturer, Dr. Alan Nunna May, reappeared at Bow Street charged…

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Member Of Navy Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 4

An a.w.l. member of the R.A.N., Frederick Arthur Clark, charged before Judge Storkey at Grafton Quarter Sessions…

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Labourer Charged With Killing Canadian Scholar

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.—A quarter-cast aboriginal, George "Ernest Cowan, 24, labourer, appeared at the City Court to-day on a…

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District Court Action Settled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 4

A settlement on undisclosed terms was announced before Judge Storkey, V.C., at Grafton District Court yesterday in the…

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Obscenity in Court Reports

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.—The Government believed that in the public interest court proceedings should be open and publicised subject to…

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New Tennis Court for Chatsworth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 5

At a meeting of the Chatsworth Island Tennis Club, it was decided to build a new court this year. It was anticipated that five or six…

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Bathgate Sentenced to Death for Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—William Robert Bathgate, 47, farmer, of Forbes to-day was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of an Italian market gardener, Luigi Orilga. Orilga, with Mrs. Ethel Wells…

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Arbitration for Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—A Bill to bring the Police Force under the Industrial Act was introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-day…

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District Court Claim for Trespass

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 5

William Joseph Skinner, farmer, of Lower Bucca, proceeded in the District Court at Grafton before Judge Storkey, V.C.,…

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District Court Bus and Lorry Collision

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 4

A CLAIM for £120 damages to an omnibus as a result of a collision on the Pacific Highway near Corindi Clarence in June, 1944, was heard before Judge Storkey at Grafton District Court. The hearing will conclude on July 30…

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Sentenced For Stealing

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 2

Charged with the theft of a leather apron from Wingfield and Shorter's store at Nana Glen Rail, Eric Raymond Williams…

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Japs Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 2

RABAUL, Fri.—One Jap war criminal to-day was sentenced to be hanged, and four others given 15 years imprisonment for the…

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Boys' Escapade Told In Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 2

Three lads, two aged 15 and the other 16, appeared at the Children's Court, Grafton, yesterday before the Police…

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