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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 38 of 40

N.z. Murder Trial

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Wed. (A.A.P.-Reuter.)—The Judge to-morrow will sum up in the case in which Mrs. Pansy Louise Haskell is…

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To Face Trial For Daughter's Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs. — In the Coroner's Court to-day, Margaret Downie was committed for trial for the murder of her…

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Inquiry Into Death Of Police Traffic Constable

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 2

Constable Lawrence Ernest McNeil, traffic officer of the Grafton Police, died from injuries accidentally received…

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£20 Fines for Prices Breaches Dorrigo Retailer Charged 'Nine Separate Lots of Things to Watch"

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 5

For breaches of the Prices Regulations, Colin Menzies, trading as Dorrigo Cash and Carry Store, was fined £20, on two…

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High Court and the People Significance of Recent Criticisms

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 5

Never previously in the half century's history of the Federation of the Australian States has the relationship of the High Court to the…

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Death Sentence For Murder Of Woman

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 November 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri. — Sentence of death was passed in the Central Criminal Court on Frederick William Robson, 49, after he had…

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Police Search For Walda Winchell

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 November 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Police are searching for Walda Winchell, 20, daughter of the columnist and radio…

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Shots Fired In Police Chase

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 November 1947 · page 2

A coloured man was arrested at South Grafton yesterday after police had fired revolver shots…

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Charged With Murder Of Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—The Crown alleged at a retrial at the Central Court to-day, that Frederick William John Robson, 40, of King's…

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Charged With Murder Of Former Jockey

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—Two men charged with murder would plead that, although, they were drinking with the victim, some other…

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Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 6

Frederick William Turner, 30, labourer, of Queen street Grafton, and Thomas Edward de Lieuien, 35, labourer, of Prince…

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Man Convicted On Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 6

Thomas James Ward, a middle aged labourer, living at the 4-mile, Woolgoolga road, was convicted in the Grafton Court…

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Magistrate Makes Comment On Street Intersection

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 6

A suggestion that the Grafton City Council might have something done about the intersection of Maud and Bacon streets was…

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Three Charged With Murder Of Gambler

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.—Three men were charged to-night with the murder of Malcolm McLean Appleby, notorious Victorian…

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Death Sentence For Jockey's Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—Noel Ernest Masters, 30, and Varnie Francis Smith, 20, were convicted in the Central Criminal Court to-day, of…

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Citizens' Right Committee On New Guard Lines —Police Commissioner

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—An organisation known as the Citizens' Rights Committee was being organised in principal country centres somewhat on the lines of the New…

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Court Reserves Judgement

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—The State Full Court to-day reserved judgement on an at peal by the executors of the £230,000 estate of Sir…

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Member Of Lords To Be tried By Court-Martial

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—The Lord Privy Seal (Lord Addison) announced to the House of Lords that he had received a…

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Police Court Man Deemed Insane

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 3

The sequel to the strange behaviour of a man in the grounds, at the High School on, Saturday morning, was the appearance of a stranger to the…

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Police Warning

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

Sgt. A. R. Beavan, officer in charge of the local Police, has issued a stern warning that shooting on the Recreation Ground of a Sunday…

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