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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Greek Reds Face Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

ATHENS, Mon. (A.A.P.).--Members of the Greek Communist Party have been charged with the murder of an…

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Police Officers Eulogised

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 5

At Coffs Court on Friday the Magistrate (Mr. E. I. Cocks SM) and members of Coffs legal profession took the opportunity…

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Police Search "Herald" Office

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon.--Security Police investigating "secret documents" case, to-day searched an office occupied by the "Sydney Morning Herald" in the Federal…

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Negotiations A Subterfuge, Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 3

"I feel that the defendant intended to steal the motor cycle, and that the negotiations were just subterfuge…

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Alleged Admission At Murder Trial

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Senior Detective Charles Petty, giving evidence during the second day of the Hurley murder trial in the…

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Police Officers Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 2

Police officers, representatives of the Department of Justice, and members of the legal profession met last night at the Court…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 5

Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at the Fair Rents Court, Grafton, yesterday confirmed the determination of rent by the Rent…

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To Die For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Eric Stanley Jacobi (44), tractor driver, of Gordon street, Fitzroy, was sentenced to death to-day…

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Le Gallien Murder Inquest Opens

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Mrs. Heather Le Gallien, widow of Charles Louis Havelock Le Gallien, 49, wealthy engineer, who was stabbed to death at his North Sydney office on September 30, said to-day that her husband left their Lindfield home in October…

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Three Months' Gaol

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

At the Dorrigo Court on Tuesday. before local Justices Messrs. N. L. Hobbs and J. H. Skeoch, Albert Norman Larken, labourer, aged 31,…

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Le Gallien Murder Inquest Continues

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.-- A witness testified at the City Coroner's Court to-day to having discussions with Charles Ivan Le Gallien about the possibility of murdering his father. The Coroner (Mr. Austin) is inquiring into, the fatal stabbing of Charles Louis…

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Falstein Appeal Held Up In State Full Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.-- The bearing of an appeal by Sydney Max Falstein, M. H. R., against his conviction in the Special…

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Assault to Recapture French Pl7

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Sun. (A. A. P). --Two thousand French troops, armed with rifles grenades and tear gas, yesterday launched an assault to recapture the Alouette pit, at Monceau…

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Trespass And Assault Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 5

Four charges brought by Frederick Aubrey. Skinner, of South Grafton,. against Cecil Phillips, senior, and Lola Josephine…

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Man Fined For Assault On Married Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 5

Ron Donnelly, of South Grafton, described in court as formerly a professional boxer, pleaded, guilty in the Grafton Court of…

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Young Man Remanded On Murder Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.-- It was alleged at Liverpool Court to-day that a 20 -year -old labourer, after returning home, with a girl early…

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Man And Woman On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Peter Costello (40), pensioner, and Bellamere Rayner (32), domestic duties, appeared at the Central…

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Police Report On Banned Play

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--The play "Rusty Bugles," which had been banned by the Acting Premier (Mr. Baddeley) will be produced…

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Charged With Murder Of Sister At Moree

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 2

MOREE, Wed.--Prominent Moree grazier, Paul Carrigan (31) was charged at the Moree Court to-day with the murder of…

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Witness Collapses At Murder Inquest

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

LITHGOW, Wednesday.--A woman witness collapsed while she was giving evidence to-day at the inquest into the deaths of two murder victims. James Lyon Walker Barton, 50, and Miss Louie Loveday Walker Barton, 45, at their Wallerawang property…

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