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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 31 of 40

Gaol Sentences For Armed Robbery

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 October 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Quarter Sessions to-day, Raymond Kendall Daniel (36), frock manufacturer, was sentenced to 10…

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Australian Charged In United States With Lottery Offence

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 October 1947 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday (A.A.P.),—Charged with having mailed to a Los Angeles address six lottery tickets and two lists…

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Young Woman Thwarts Diamond Theft

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 October 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—A 20-year-old shop girl to-dey thwarted an attempt to steal a tray of diamonds worth £300…

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Driver Charged-Sequel To Injury Of Children

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—As a sequel to nine children being injured by a motor truck at Bankstown yesterday afternoon Leslie Leonard…

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Police Warning On Strangers

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 October 1947 · page 2

A police warning about strangers visiting the district was issued yesterday by Police Inspector.W. O. McEwan…

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Town Topics Police Station at Ebor

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 October 1947 · page 1

The Premier's Department has advised Mr. D. H. Drummond that his representations. on behalf of Guy Fawkes branch of the Farmers'…

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Police Called to Public Meeting

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Police had to be called to control a section of the crowd at a public meeting in Sydney to-night at when the Premier (Mr. McGirr) and the Minister for Post-War Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) spoke in support of the Government's…

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Charged With Intent To Murder Fireman

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 October 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun. — Police last night arrested a 34-year-old, ironmonger arid later charged him with shooting with intent to…

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Licensing Police Blitz Hotels

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—New South Wales hotels are being blitzed by licencing police to force them to supply the public with…

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Police Use Batons On Unruly Crowd

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 October 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.—Police had to use their batons on a crowd outside the Melbourne' Town Hall yesterday when men…

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Car Thefts Move For Gaol Sentences

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 2

The NRMA will renew its request to the Government for an amendment of the law to substitute a minimum three months gaol sentence for fines…

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Heiress Acquitted Of Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 1

SANTA ANA (California), Monday (A.A.P.).—After the longest criminal trial ever heard in the United States, a jury of six men and six women acquitted the heiress, Beulah Louise Overell, 18, and her lover, George (Bud) Gollum, on a charge of…

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Aboriginal Compliments Police Sergeant

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 4

Sgt R. T. Wilson, Coffs Harbour, was paid what can be taken as a compliment by an aboriginal he arrested on a charge of fowl stealing…

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Police Find Body Of Young Girl Missing For Three Months

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Mon. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Police inquiries continued to-day into the mystery finding of a body…

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Police Action Against Hotels

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—25 hotels in Sydney and in the country are to be proceeded against by police for alleged failure to provide meals…

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Man In Court On Driving Charges; Elderly Man Killed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.—Keith Kitchener Hull, 30, wood merchant, of St. Kilda, appeared in the St. Kilda Court to-day on…

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Assault on Youngster

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 October 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—Detectives to-day continued unsuccessfully a search for a young man who allegedly indecently assaulted a…

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Decentralised Police System For Japan

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 October 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Dismemberment of Japan's powerful centrally organised police force was to-day announced by the…

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Court Aftermath To Road Fatality

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 October 1947 · page 7

TENTERFIELD, Thurs.—There was an aftermath to-day to a recent road fatality in which a truck was wrecked and a child…

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High Court Judges Under Attack

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday.—Renewing his attack on Judges of the High Court, the Speaker (Mr. Resevear) told the House of Representatives to-day it had been proved beyond doubt that, physically and mentally, they had not the capacity to carry on efficiently…

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