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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Police Investigating Kidnapping Report

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Police are investigating a report that Frank Masman Howard, 57, Moulamein rabbit inspector, was kidnapped…

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German Police Arrest Hitler's Interpreter

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

FRANKFURT, Sun. (A.A.P.).-- Police arrested Hitler's interpreter, Dr. Paul Schmidt, in Tegernsee, Bavaria, reports the German…

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Charged With Murder Of Mother

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Unshaven and dressed in a shabby blue suit, William James Marshall, 23, Was charged at Redfern Court with…

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Jealousy Motive Behind Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Jealousy was said to have been the motive behind the murder yesterday of a 75-year-old woman by an…

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Chinese Squatters Resist Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

HONG KONG, Mon. (A.A.P. Reuter).--Police and Chinese squatters in the former, walled city of Kowloon fought a pitched…

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Sered 2 Years, Arrested Leaving Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--A man who was arrested to-day as he left Long Bay Gaol after serving two years, said later he…

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Golf Clubhouse Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

WEST WYALONG, Wed.-- Lloyd Fleming, 39, labourer, appeared in West Wyalong Court to-day on a charge of…

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Control by Police Queensland Traffic

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 6

Complete police control of road traffic throughout Queensland will be provided in a draft bill for consolidation of the Traffic Acts 1905…

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Railway Shunter Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 4

Arthur Neville James Fitzsimmons, 31, railway shunter, of Grafton, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Fight at Sawtell Committal for Assault

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 7

As a sequel to a fight between two men at Sawtell on Boxing Day, John L. Anderson was arrested at Kinchela, Macleay River, on a…

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Negligent Driving Police Case Dismissed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

A police case aflainst Reeves Webb Edmunds, on a charge of negligent driving, was dismissed (by Mr. E. L Cocks, SM, at Coffs Police…

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"Drug Peddler" Before Lunacy Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 1

SIDNEY, Mon-- Alleged to have told police on Saturday that she intended to kill herself, Nancy Orlaine Harrison…

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Provisions Of Will Amended By Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 4

Before Mr. Justice Roper, Chief Judge in Equity, in the Equity Court, Sydney, on December 12, an order was made under the…

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Offensive Behaviour Charges At Coff's Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR, Tuesday.--Ten of the cases dealt with at the Coff's Harbour Court of Petty Sessions were in connection with offences committed at Woolgoolga or at Red Rock camping reserve…

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Nymboida Coal Case Heard In Sydney Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Evidence that Ronald Maurice Farthing, of 35 Hughes street, Mascot, had invested £900 in coal mining leases on the North Coast was given when the Nymboida coal case was resumed before Mining Warden Cocks, S.M., at the Redfern…

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Aborigine Sentenced At Tingha Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 3

A man whom Grafton police arrested after Detective A. G. Clark had fired five shots over his! head during a chase on…

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Escape Charged At Central Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Long Bay Gaol escapee. Crofton Edward Barnes,, 26 who gave himself up to the police after 10 days, was…

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Alleged Assault On Woman

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed,--Two men alleged to have, with two other men, criminally assaulted a woman at North Brighton, were…

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Increased Duties For Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 2

KEMPSEY Wed. -- The Kempsey district police force were called upon to handle increased duties during 1947,…

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Postman Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Robert John Murray, 31, postman, Was alleged in the Coroner's Court to-day to have admitted killing William…

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