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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 40

Aboriginal Compliments Police Sergeant

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 3

Sergt. R. T. Wilson, Coff's 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 Investigating Death After Scuffle

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—Police are investigating the death of John Abergeldie McIvor, 62 of Great North road, Abbotsford, who died…

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Mass Killer Seeks Police Assistance

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 1

SINGAPORE. Sunday (A.A.P.).—While armed police combed the Kahang area searching for a Malay who ran amok, killing ten persons and injuring eleven, and villagers in the vicinity banded together for protection, the wanted man yesterday calmly walked…

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Ex R.a.i. Launches for the River Thames Police

The Clarence River Advocate · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 2

R.A.F. high speed air-sea resume launches have been converted for use by the Metropolitan Police of the River Thames Division. They are fitted with radio telephones and a searching on the top of the cabin. London's River Police are responsible for 72 miles of the river, and…

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Woman Charged With Malicious Wounding

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon. — A woman was charged in Parramatta Court to-day with having maliciously wounded a man who was alleged…

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Two Years' Gaol Coffs Man loses £895

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 5

Bernard Hambridge, 31-year-old salesman, was sentenced to two years' gaol at Sydney Quarter Sessions yesterday on a charge of…

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Stolen Wallet Young Man Sent to Gaol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 5

For having stolen a wallet and £6 in notes from a boarding house at Lowanna, Kevin Albert Marsh, 18, was sentenced to six weeks'…

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Appeared In Court Instead Of Church

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—A 57-year-old man and middle-aged widow who were scheduled to appear in church to-day to be married…

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Full Court Grants Decree Nisi Against Former Grafton Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—The State Full Court to-day granted Stanley Wilfred Stebbing, furniture maker, of Tempe, a…

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Two Years' Gaol For Larceny

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.—A man who pleaded guilty to five charges' of larceny worth £3737, at the General Sessions to-day, was…

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Sent To Gaol For Stealing Wallet

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 7

COFF'S HARBOUR.—At the Coff's Harbour Court of Petty Sessions, Kevin Albert Marsh (18) was sentenced to six months'…

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Police Transfers

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 3

The following police transfers to and from the Grafton police inspectorate have been notified Sergt. 2nd Class J. D. Kerr of…

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Men Sentenced For Robbery At Port Macquarie

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Thurs.—In the Kempsey Quarter Sessions to-day, after a two day's hearing before Judge Storkey…

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Czechs Charged With Anti-Govt. Plot

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—American Associatel Press, quoting the Prague Radio, says the Parliamentary Committee on…

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Workers' Compensation Court At Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 2

A sitting of the Workers' Compensation Commission Court, before his Houour Judge Rainbow, will be held at the Court House…

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Missed Train Flew to attend Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 October 1947 · page 6

Mr. J. Telfer, Crown Prosecutor, missed the train in Sydney on Sunday night and flew to Kempsey on Monday morning to attend the…

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Solicitor Charged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—A Sydney solicitor, Harold Joseph Price, 44, was to-day, charged at the Central Court with fraudulent misappropriation of £3963…

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Earl Lloyd George In Bankruptcy Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Earl Lloyd George told the Bankruptcy Court that his liabilities were £4141 sterling and his…

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Offensive Behaviour Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 4

Pleading guilty to charges of behaving in an offensive manner in Prince street, Grafton, on September 7, Frederick C. Russell…

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Coffs Jetty Theft Suspect Arrested

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 3

A man arrested by the one constable at the little station of Willow Tree last week on a charge of steala car at Singleton is alleged to have…

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