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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 40

Lost £2600 As S.P. Bookmaker-- Three Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--A clerk who, it was stated lost nearly £2600 in three years as a S.P. bookmaker, was to-day sentenced…

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M.L.A.'s In Court On Trespass Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 3

HOBART, Wed.--Two members of the Tasmanian Legislative Assembly, George William Wedd and Denis Gannon…

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Police Promotions

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.-- The following police promotions have beer announced:-- Sergeants, second class, to be…

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No Arrest For Murder In New Zealand

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1947 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Fri.--.No arrest has yet been made of the murderer of Mrs. Glady Ruth Rusten, 47, found battered in the kitchen…

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Two Boys Charged With Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 3

Grafton police Have arrested two boys and charged them with stealing money from a till in the shop of Miss M. Hunter, Bacon…

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Ex-canadian Arrested on Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 2

Police inquiries into a report that £20 was missing from the South Grafton Presbytery and two smaller amounts from the…

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Week-end Police Cases

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 1

The police round-up for the past week-end included two drunks and one offensive behaviour and language case. The charges were heard in the…

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Remanded On Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 4

Gerald Patrick Good (25), labourer, of Woolgoolga Road, South Grafton, appeared before Mr. H. Breakell, J.P., at Grafton…

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Two Men Charged With Hold-Up Of Racing Man

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.--Two men appeared before Paddington Court to-day on charges relating to an alleged hold-up by…

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Still Seeking Clues ln N.Z. Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Tues:-- Police are still seeking clues to the murder last week of Mrs. Gladys Ruth Rusden. She was found battered…

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Secret Police Busy In Poland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

WARSAW, Tues.--Secret police have arrested leading members of the Polish Socialist Party for alleged terrorist subversive…

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Four Years' Gaol For Embezzlement

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wed.--James Vincent Angley, 44, assistant manager of the Australian Provincial Assurance Ltd. in Adelaide, was…

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Police Search For Kidnappers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Wednesday.--Nine persons have been detained in a search by police of the Polish-Jewish colony at Kiriat Shaul, a suburb of Tel Aviv, after troops of the Third Battalion of Grenadier Guards cordoned off the colony and freed the two…

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Nothing Improper In Transfer Of Police Sergeant

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Judge Kirby, who presided at the Royal Commission into allegations concerning the transfer of…

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Heavy Fines at Coffds Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

At Coffs Police Court this morning before Mr. E. I. Cocks, PM, Ivan Johnson was fined £75 and £2. 10s costs for having an illicit still, which…

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Gaol Sentences For Black Marketing In Meat

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Three men were sentenced to terms of imprisonment by Mr. Justice Dixon in the High Court…

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No Income Tax Returns Defendant Fined £25 Case Before Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

For the years 1940 to 1944, Bertram Arthur Hayward, a carrier, of Tyringham, failed to submit income tax returns to the…

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Cheque Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 5

Thomas Squires (44), mill hand, of Glen Innes, appeared in the Grafton Police Court, before Mr. H. Breakell, J P., yesterday,…

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Court of Human Rights

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Fri.--Australia has proposed to the United Nations that provision be embodied in the International Bill…

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Charged With Attempt To Murder Brother

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 June 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Leslie James Holman, 34, labourer, was charged with attempting to murder his brother, Kevin Holman,…

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