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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

608 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 31

Remanded on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—Percy Charles Neville, 39, labourer, was charged in the Central Court to-day, with the murder of Francis John…

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Youth Shot In Face; Man Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Mon.—Francis Clyde Newman (20), Charlotte Bay, Forster, was shot in the face while on a shooting…

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No Right to Assault Wife

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Mr. Hodgson, S.M., said in the Cenirai Court to-day, that husbands have no more right to assault…

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Men On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 June 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Frank Vickers (33), whose battered body was, found in a lane in West Melbourne on May 13 died from…

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Relief Police Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 2

Six police from metropolitan divisions, under Sergt. Jones, of North Sydney, arrived in Grafton yesterday…

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Police Clash with Strikers

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 2

PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.).-- Fifteen thousand police were in action against 20,000 strikers in various plants at Clermont…

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Believed Drowned; Arrested By Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 1

Police received a message at 5 p.m. yesterday, that a man was believed to be drowned in the flooded Bent street area of…

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Lost Articles At Police Station

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 1

Coffs Harbour Police have in their possession a pair of spectacles in case and a gent's bike. The bike is black with blue…

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Assaulted Police Officer Defendant Convicted and Fined £5 "Don't Let the — Take Him"

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 1

At Wednesday's Court of Petty Sessions before Messrs. R. Reid and J. H. Skeoch J's.P., Cecil James Casey, labourer, 27, was…

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Charge Of Murder Follows Shooting

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--William Charles Crawford, 24, of 48 Connearra street, Bexley, was shot dead on the back verandah of a…

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Court Adjournment

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 2

Mr. Atkinson, S.M., of Sydney, advised on Saturday that he would be unable to attend at the Court of Petty Sessions at…

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Man Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Charged at the Central Court to-day with the murder of William Charles Les Jack Crawford, 24, Frederick…

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Japanese Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Mon. (A.A.P.).--Two Japanese were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment with hard labour by the Eighth Army…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 4

Applications which were to have been heard yesterday before the State Licensing Court were adjourned until 2.30 p.m. on…

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Court Postponement Through Flood

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 5

Effect of the flood at South Grafton was the reason for a fortnight's adjournment of a tenancy action at the Grafton Court of…

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Charged With Murder Of Gangster

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Charged at Central Court to-day with the murder of a gangster, Francis John Beaumont Allard, on June…

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Theft of Clothing for Flood Victims

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Warm clothing, valued at about £1000, which was intended for victims of the Lismore floods, was stolen last…

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Police Motor Launch Need

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 2

Need for a motor lanuch to be provided at Lower Clarence police centres was urged yesterday…

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Vagrancy Cases at Coffs Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 7

Two defendants appeared at Coffs Police Court on Tuesday, charged with having insufficient lawful means of support…

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Annual Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 3

The annual licensing report was presented to Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at Grafton Licensing Court yesterday…

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