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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

608 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 21 of 31

Cases at Yesterday's Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 5

Jack Charles William Gibson pleaded guilty at Coffs Police Court yesterday morning when charged with offensive…

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Police Wounded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

SINGAPORE, Mon. (A.A.P.--Reuter).--For[?]y armel Chinese terrorists yesterday attacked the Sweetan Estate just across the…

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Licensing Court Sits At Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

KEMPSEY.--At the Kempsey Court House, Messrs. J. B. Sc[?]bie, B. H. Wells and A. J. Bliss, of the Licensing Board, granted three…

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"BanKruptcy Due To Court Order"

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

The public examination in bankruptcy of Clifton Gilmore, timber cutter, of Halfway Creek, began at Grafton before Mr. E. I…

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Charged with Injuring Truck

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 3

LISMORE, Tues.--Pleading guilty to charges of maliciously injuring a truck and a quantity of sugar, the total value of £960,…

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Two Men Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 3

LISMORE, Wed,--Laurence Frank Morris, who spent four years in a German prison camp, and John Bernard Mulcahy, a…

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Money Disappears From Police Station

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The disappearance of £2240 from a safe under the counter in the Liverpool Police Station was discovered to-day. The money, an exhibit in a court case, was placed in a tin in the safe last May…

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Fitter Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 5

An apprentice fitter who, according to the police, travelled from Tamworth to South Grafton by taxi with a motor cycle in the…

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Shire President Resents Police Road Report

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 September 1948 · page 3

There were a lot of other jobs the police could do in keeping law arid order without interfering in the work of…

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Police Campaign Against Stray Dogs In Streets

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 September 1948 · page 2

Grafton police are conducting a campaign to clear the streets of stray dogs. They have destroyed several…

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Police Seek Solution To Aircraft Mystery

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 September 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.(A.A.P.),--Continental police are co-operating with Scotland Yard experts in an effort to solve the…

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Theft of £200 Alleged Lismore, Mon.--Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 September 1948 · page 2

with stealing £200 given to him by a Grafton w[?]man as a deposit on a house he had undertaken to build, a man was…

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Not a Stranger To Police Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1948 · page 6

A defendant with a long list of previous convictions was beifore Coffs Police Court veeterday, charged with being drunk…

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Murder Charge [?]D

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 3

GOONDIWINDI, Tues.--[?]el Graham Carey, 28, of Minnel Station, near Goondiwindi, was reman[?] until September 22, in the Goondiwindi police court,…

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Gaol for Illegally Obtaining Petrol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Saying it was "fantastic that a fraud of suck magnitude could have been perpetrated in these times," Mr. Isles, S.M., in the Special Federal Court to-day, sentenced a young hawker to nine months' gaol, on six charges of fraudulently…

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Soviet Court Sentences Berliners

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 September 1948 · page 1

"BERLIN, Tues. (A.A.P.).--Five Western Berlin residents whom the Russians arrested after last Thursday's…

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Terrorists Murder Australian Miner

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 September 1948 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Wed. (A.A.P. Reuter).--An Australian tin miner was murdered this morning in Selangor State. He is…

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Coffs Harbour Police Changes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 September 1948 · page 1

As mentioned previously, Sgt 2nd-Class Purkiss, from Lismore, is to take charge of Coffs Police Station and is…

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Court To Inquire Into Lutana Crash

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 September 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday.--The court of inquiry appointed into the Lutana air crash will have full right to make the Government any observations or recommendations it thinks fit on any matters associated with the crash…

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Young Man on Stealing Charges

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1948 · page 3

Royston C. Gilbey appeared before Mr. E. I. Cocks, SM, at Coffs Police Court on Friday on three charges of stealing, to…

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