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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 40

Police Force May 'Become Gestapo'

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--During farther hearing to-day in the Central Court of charges against one of the 13 university students arrested in connection with the alleged anti-Dutch demonstration in the city on July 25, Mr. J. McClemens, K.C., said that if the…

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Father Charged With Murder Of Three Children

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri-- Charged with the murder of his three children at Hurstville on Monday, morning, Keith Edmund Arnold, 34,…

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Police View on Students' March

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--Inspector William Lindsay Afford said to-day that the police were very tolerant on the occasion of the University students' procession outside the Dutch Consulate on July 25…

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Grafton Police Officer And Wife Parewelied

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 3

THE outstanding feature of the speeches delivered at the farewell function to Det. Sergt. D. C. Dallas, and Mrs, Dallas, at the Grafton City Council Chambers, last night, was the appreciation expressed at Det. Sergt. Dallas' fairness his official…

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Man Charged With Murder Of Jockey

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—As a sequel to the death of Jockey Neil Joseph McKenna, who was found badly battered in a…

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Alleged Theft Of Motor Truck

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 2

MACLEAN. — At the Maclean Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. T. I. Lumley, J.P., Desmond James Imhoff, of Warwick (Q.),…

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Hotels Charged with Price Offences

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—Four big city hotels were represented at the Special Federal Court to-day, charged with having sold meals…

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Man On Murder Charge Met Victim In Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—A man on a murder charge and a woman who was stabbed to death on the night of March 30 were to…

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Aboriginal Makes Many Court Appearances

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 2

"You seem to make a habit of coming here and you are likely to be, sefat to Grafton Gaol if you do not reform," said Mr. J. Fellows, JP, to Donald…

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Police Commissioner Seriously Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.—The New Zealand Commissioner for Police (Mr. James Cumming) was injured, and his wife and two other…

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Problem For Court Unless 40-Hour Week

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.—In his report to the All-Australian Trade Union Congress on the Full Arbitration Court's hearing of the…

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Catalina Jettisons High Explosives Gestapo And S.S. Men Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tues.—A Catalina aircraft in difficulties off the coast had to jettison four boxes of high explosives into the sea HAMBURG, Tues. (A.A.P ).— A War Crimes Court found guilty 18 Gestapo and S.S. men accused of murdering, on Hitler's orders…

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Jury Fails To Agree On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 September 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed—A Central Court jury to-day failed to agree on a verdict in the case in which Frederick William John Robson,…

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Remanded For Trial On Jockey's Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Vernie Francis Smith, 23, labourer, was remanded at the Central Police Court to-day without bail on a charge of having murdered Neil Joseph McKenna, 37. Northern Stivers jockey who died in Sydney Hospital early on Sunday, six…

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Dorrigo's Traffic Problems Police Officer Recommends Angle Parking

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 1

Parking of cars and vehicles in Dorrigo's two main streets in the near future will be of the angle (tail in) system. The…

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Three Years' Gaol For Indecent Assault

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—In the Central Criminal Court to-day, John Taylor 51, tram conductor, was sentenced to three years' gaol…

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Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 1

PERTH, Fri.—In the Criminal Court to-day, William Dudley Doggett, farmhand, was found guilty of the murder of his…

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Pressman Alleges Assault By Union Officials

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.—A Sydney pressman has alleged that two prominent union officials attending the All-Australian Trade…

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Court Judgment On Standard Hours

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.—The judgment of the Full Arbitration Court on standard hours for industry in Australia will…

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Scene In Court When Woman Threatened

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Fri.—There was a scene in the Central Court to-day when a young woman threatened to kill an elderly woman…

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