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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Comic Court Runs Attractive Trial

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The South Australian champion colt, Comic Court, who will be having his first outing in Sydney, at Canterbury on Saturday,…

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Not Allowed To Visit Client In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sun.--Because he is a convicted person, Communist barrister. Max Julius has been refused permission to visit…

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Police Hunt Sequel; Two Men In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Mon.--As a sequel to a police hunt on Sunday, before the arrest of two men in a house near Rathdowney, near the…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 2

A Licensing Magistrates bench, comprising Messrs. B. H. Wells, J. B. Scobie and A. Bliss, will sit at Grafton Court this…

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Police Search for Home Rackateer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Melbourne police are looking for a trickster whom they say has taken £3000 from home seekers…

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Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 3

MACLEAN.--At the Maclean Court of Petty Session Mr. E. Cocks, S. M. Mervyn Gillespie was charged with…

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Licensing Magistrate's Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3

The adou[?]d hearing, of the Licensing 'Magistrate's Court was finalised at the Grafton Court House yesterday. before Messrs…

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Police Recover Girls' Bodies

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon. -- Police to-day recovered the bodies of Mavis, Roe. (16), Pine street, Wynnum, and Valerie Jean le…

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Licensing Court At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3

MACLEAN.--At the Licensing Court at Maclean, the application made by Hector Albert Hicks for whom Mr. Mclntyre…

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Cases at Coffs Pouce Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 5

Several cases were listed for hearing at Coffs Police Court yesterday morning. For some weeks there has been…

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Labourer Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 4

Kelvin Herbert Thompson, (31), labourer, pleaded guilty before Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Three Years' Gaol for Aborigine

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--In the Central Criminal Court to-day Mr. Justice Maxwell sentenced William Dennison (35), of…

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Cattle Buyer For Trial On Theft Charges

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 3

FRANCIS Donald Gordon Woodcroft (26), cattle buyer, at the Grafton Petty Sessions yesterday, was committed for trial on [?]our charges of stealing, as a servant of Thos. Borthwick and Sons, Australasia, Ltd…

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Death Sentence For Son's Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Tues.--A 48 year old labourer, Frederick Charles Hall, was sentenced to death at the Supreme Court, at…

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Death Sentence for Woman's Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Mr. Justice Maxwell, at the Central Criminal Court, to-day sentenced to death James Michael Murray…

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Long Honorable Service In Police Force

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 2

Acting Inspector J. E. Forsyth, of Grafton, who yesterday received official notification of his promotion to that rank, has had…

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Jap Guard Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 5

YOKOHAMA. Thurs. (A.A.P.- Reuter).--The War Crimes Commission to-day sentenced Yoshio Kominea, Japanese prison guard…

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Theft Of Ale

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 5

Police are investigating the theft of nine dozen bottles of ale from the Hotel Clarence, Maclean…

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Police Blitz on Stray Dogs

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 September 1948 · page 2

Grafton police had been instructed to initiate a blitz on stray dogs, said Inspector J. E. Forsyth yesterday…

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Half- Caste Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sun.-- A half-caste, who is in the Alice Springs Hospital in a serious condition with knife wounds to the throat, has…

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