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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Half Caste Aborigine Charged With Rape

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Tues.—A 26 years old half-caste aborigine, was to-day arrested and charged with having raped a 35 years old…

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Detectives Visit Former Stock Broker In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Former stock and sharebroker, Henry Warburton Hodgetts, 63, now serving five years in prison for his…

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Police Rescue From Blazing House

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.— Police rescued four adults and three children from a blazing house at Moonee Ponds early this morning…

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Police Station Sought For Rappville

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

Rappville District Progress Association has received a reply from the Police epartment about the reinstatement of a police…

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Old Police Badge Found In Baths

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

A large brass N.S.W. police badge, estimated to be about 50 years old, was found in the Grafton baths yesterday. It is much…

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Former S.S. Sergeant Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

BERLIN, Wednesday.—A former SS Sergeant, Siegfried Kabus was sentenced to death by a United States military court at…

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New Award Betters Police Force Conditions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—A new agreement on pay and conditions of police, other than commissioned officers, was announced to-day by the Senior Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Kilpatrick). The new award provides for…

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Five Men Charged With Murder Of Italian "Martyr"

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

HOME, Thursday.—Giving evidence before the court which is trying him and three other former henchmen of Mussolini in…

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Soldier Hanged For Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

BERLIN, Thursday.—A British soldier, F. J. Upson, R.A.S.C., has been hanged for the murder of a 60 years old German woman in…

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Police Office Punch

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

As a result of a punch he threw in Coffs Police Oflice when arrested O'Brien (32), of Dorrigo, was fined £2 for…

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Ley Murder Trial Resumed; Woman Gives Evidence

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.—When the case in which Thomas John Ley (67), former N.S.W. Minister for Justice, and Lawrence John…

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Man Charged With Intent To Murder Wife

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—At Kogarah police station yesterday Ashton Arnold Roden (32) was charged with maliciously wounding with…

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Newtown Cemetery Murder Development

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police investigations early this morning into a report by a taxi-driver that a man whom he drove to…

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Alleged Theft Ring and Clothing

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 5

Ena Joyce Sandy (22), a young aboriginal woman, appeared at Coffs Police Court this morning on a charge of having stolen a gold…

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Murder Charge Against Accountant

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.—A charge of wilful murder against a 49-year-old accountant, Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, will…

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Police Property Damaged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR, Monday.— At the Coff's Harbour Police Court, Denny O'Brien (32), farmer, of Dorrigo, was fined £2, and…

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Licensing Court Factory Applications

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

It would appear from the trend of events in the Licensing Court at Beilingen last week that the applications of the Beilingen,…

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Ley Murder Case Resumed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Tues.—A bank clerk told the West London Police Court, when the hearing of charges of murder against the former New South Wales Minister, Thomas John Ley, and Lawrence John Smith, was resumed that certain sums of money were…

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Police Menaced At Regatta

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Tues.—There was an ugly scene at the Frederickton Regatta late yesterday afternoon when a detective had…

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Woman Remanded On Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Wednesday. —At the Coff's Harbour Police Court Ena Joyce Sandy (22), was remanded to appear at the…

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