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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

608 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 31

Police Recapture Prison Escapees

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 1

GOULBURN, Sunday.--Police from Taralga, Crookwell and Goulburn this morning recaptured four prisoners who escaped from Oberon Prison Farm on Friday, night. They closed on the men at 2 a.m. to-day as they entered the…

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Police In Tails Attend Theatre

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Police in toppers and tails were at the Tivoli Theatre last night. They were there on duty,…

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Police Provide Thrill For Theatregoers

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Sun.--With guns drawn, and watched by hundreds of excited theatregoers, three detectives and six uniformed…

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Court Sequel To Yamba Fight

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 2

MACLEAN. -- "I ask that offences of this nature ba treated seriously, when young men go to Holiday resorts, and after…

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Charged with Falsely Obtaining £1000

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Stanley Hammond (46), salesman failed to appear at the Central Court today in answer to a charge of…

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Not Guilty Plea To Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 4

Earl Craft, 47, timber worker, pleaded not guilty in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to a charge of having…

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Gaol Re-Committal Futile, Says Judge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The re-committal of wayward girls to gaol was futile and "gross wastage of human material" Judge Studdert…

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Court Warning To Grafton Youth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 4

A Grafton youth, Len Clarence Wood, 20, spray painter, was warned by Mr. M. J. Austin, S.M., in the Grafton Court of Petty…

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Old Man Charged With Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--A sixty-five-year-old man was charged with manslaughter at the Daceyville Police Station…

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Police Control Of Larrikinism

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 5

Grafton police had a satisfactory control over any form of larrikinism which existed in this town on occasions, said Police Inspector W…

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On Trial for Murder of Mother

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The coroner (Mr. J. S. Hart), to-day committed for trial William James Marshall, (23), on a…

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Sentenced for Interfering with Dead Body

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 1

WELLINGTON, (N.Z), Friday. (A.A.P.-Reuter).--Found guilty by the jury after it had been out for 99 minutes, Desmond Robert…

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Chinese Reds Murder 49 Priests

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.).--Since 1946 Chinese Communis have, executed, murdered or tortured to death 49…

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South Korea a Police State

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK Fri. (A.A.P.)--The Australian member of the United Nations' Korean Commission (Mr. S. J. Jackson) has…

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High Court Begins Hearing of Banking Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Claims that the Commonwealth Bank Act contains an "undisguised attempt to take over all business, whether banking or not," were made by Mr. G. W. Barwick, K.C., before the Full High Court to-day…

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Dead Man On Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--A man failed to appear in the Central Court to-day on a charge of stealing, but other men…

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Four Men on £300 Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Four men Were committed for trial at the Central Court to-day on a charge of assaulting Vera Austin…

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Committed For Trial On Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tries.--John Daniel Robertson (35), was committed for trial at the Central Court to-day on a charge of assaulting…

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Evaded Taxi Fare Charged with Vagrancy

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 2

David Smith and Frank Cameron, two strangers to the district, were sentenced to 14 days' hard labor at Coffs Police Court on Wednesday…

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Acquitted On Intent To Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Robert Theodore Gallvin (44), licensee of the Hotel Bankstown, was acquitted at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions…

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