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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 40

Police Menaced By Crowd Of Over 200

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—One of the worst demonstrations to which the police have been subjected in Sydney occurred on Saturday afternoon at Petersham. A police squad of more than…

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Chinese Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Mon.—Chan Kwan and Chan Sin, charged with the murder of Yeung Shing, bosun of the steamer…

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Murder Trial Expected To Last Five Weeks

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

PERTH, Mon.—The trial of Leonard Charles H. Jackson, 48, Kalgoorlie business man, on a charge of murdering Stella Ivy…

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Killed Cat By Holding Head Under Trolley Wheel-Month's Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Monday.—Walter Leonard Howett was sent to gaol for a month by Mr. Sanderson in Port Adelaide Police Court to-day…

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Police Investigate Girl's Strange Death

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — Detectives are investigating the death of an attractive girl in strange Circumstances at North Sydney…

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Called In Court, But Still In England

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—When the case in which Joseph Goldberg, Sydney businessman, charged with having imported prohibited…

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Police Allege Man Stole From Five Homes After Release

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Alleged to have stolen £768 from five homes after his release from prison on a license, Terence Paton Jones,…

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Four Nuns Sentenced To Imprisonment

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 February 1947 · page 1

BELGRADE, Tuesday.—Four Roman Catholic nuns, who allegedy forced schoolchildren to spy oh one another, were…

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Former Law Clerk Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—The immediate arrest of a former law clerk, Duncan Cameron, of Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, was…

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Prisoners Strike At Pentridge Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.—A letter signed "the majority" and claiming that a few malcontents are responsible for the strike of 100…

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Five Years' Gaol For Three Youths

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 4

GOULBURN, Wednesday.—Described as being formerly "model Sunday School pupils," three youths were each sent to gaol for…

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Cashier Charged with Theft

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.—William Hunt Scots, aged 29 Australian cahsier at at Pinewood film studio, who was charged with stealing…

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Pentridge Gaol Now Quiet

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—All was quiet in Pentridge gaol last night, an official said to-day. Further trouble was not expected from…

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Airman Charged With Rape

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Found wandering naked near a disused quarry at Parramatta on December 27 a young woman…

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"Slab Murder Case"

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 1

PERTH, Thurs.—To-day was the second day of the trial of Leonard Charles Jackson, businessman, of Kalgoorlie, in what…

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Arrested By Brother For Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—James Mortimer Washington, 23 merchant seaman who appeared in North Sydney Court to-day…

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Sending Of Document Like Court Summons "Most Improper"

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 3

GOULBURN, Thurs.—Judge Berne, in the District Court to-day described sending a document resembling a court…

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Dealer Charged With Stealing Safe

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Horace Joseph Edwards, 45, dealer, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having stolen a safe and…

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Charged With Capital Offence-Offered Father £4

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—A detective alleged in Parramatta Court to-day that a man charged with committing, a capital offence against a…

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World Police Force Plan

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS (New York), Fri.—The Security Council, which was considering the disarmament resolution approved of the final paragraph requiring the United Nations' Military Staff Committee to report by April 30 to the Security Council on the basic…

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