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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

608 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 31

Superintendent Praxes Coff's Harbour Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 November 1948 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR.--Superintendant, C. Delaney, Officer-inCharge of the Tamworth Police L[?]strict, has left Coff's Harbour…

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Fishermen Hook Hair. Police Find Clothing When Murray Dragged

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 November 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The mysterious disappearance of [?] eight-year-old girl from Gol Gol, N.S.W., in 1945, was…

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Boy Found Wandering As Police Prepare To Drag Park Lake

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 November 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.--Nearly 100 people, including 60 police, searched for several hours yesterday in Centennial Park for a…

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Man Fined For Showground Assault

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 November 1948 · page 5

Pleading guilty to having unlawfully assaulted John Riley, Grafton Showground caretaker, on Saturday night, Andrew John…

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A Pen Knife Brings Court Penalty

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1948 · page 4

A colored man Arthur Herbert Walters, aged 38, appeared at Coffs Police Court yesterday, charged with being…

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Police Vote Against Union Affiliation

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--By 1655 votes to 1022, members of the N.S.W. Police Force Association have decided not to affiliate with the…

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Le Gallien Verdict Must Be Murder, Not Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Mr. J. J. B. Kinkead told the Central Criminal Court jury that the case against his client, Charles Ivan Le Gallien, must be decided as murder, not manslaughter. He said the jury, unless satisfied the Crown had proved murder…

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Young Girl To Face Trial For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 December 1948 · page 3

MANILLA, Wed.--Gloria Dawn Facer, 17, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having murdered William Roger Riley,…

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Verdict For Plaintiff In Industrial Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 December 1948 · page 4

Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., yesterday gave his reserved decision in the Industrial Court action brought by Ernest W. Toovey…

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Convention Against Organised Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--by 30 votes to nil, the United Nations' Legal Committee has approved the first World Convention against…

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Japanese Appeals Before US Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.).--The appeals of the five convicted Japanese war lords, now facing sentences ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment, were formally presented to the United States Supreme Court yesterday…

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Not Before Court Already In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 5

"I would ask your Worship to mark the papers "Not before Court. In gaol," said the Police Prosecutor, Senior Constable M…

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Unwarranted Vicious Assault, Says P.M.

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 5

"It was a vicious and unwarranted assault, and the defendant is fortunate he is not before the court on a more…

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Face Second Trial On Sydney Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Harold Sydney Brett, 27, labourer, and Percy Charles Neville, 32, sugar worker, were charged for the…

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Court Dismisses Bishop's Appeal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--In a reserved judgment delivered to-day, the High Court dismissed an appeal by the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst (Dr. A. L. Wylde) against the banning of services conducted with the "Red Book" ritual. Dr. Wylde had appealed…

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Supreme Court To Hear War Lord Appeals

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 December 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.P.)--The execution of seven Japanese war lords now under sentence of death in Sugama Prison has been further delayed by a majority decision of the United States Supreme Court to hear appeals lodged by two of the…

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Condemned Couple To Marry In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 1

COPENHAGEN, Wed.--(A.A.P.).--Permission to marry in gaol has been granted to an armless girl and her one legged lover…

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Errol Flynn Figures In Brush With Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed: (A.A.P.). "I am the last man in the world to argue with a policeman," declared actor Errol Flynn to…

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Sentenced for Spying

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 1

VIENNA, Thurs. (A.A.P).--A Soviet court, martial has sentenced 30-year-old Margete Ottilinger--blonde Under-Secretary…

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Police Promotions

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The following promotions, in the police force have been notified: Senior Constables to Sergeants 3rd class,…

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