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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

608 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 31

Prosecutor Demanded Solicitor Leave Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3

LISMORE, Thursday.--The Police Prosecutor (Sergeant Milne), of Sydney, to-day demanded that a Lismore solicitor appearing at an inquest for a man charged with the murder of a 65-year- old pensioner be ordered from the court…

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To High Court Ruling Sought Re Petrol Tax

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3

The Dorrigo Shire Council has decided to request the Shires' Association of NSW to contest through the High Court, the action of the…

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Five Years' Gaol For Wounding

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--In the Quarter Sessions today, Cyril Shuberts (23) shop assistant, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a…

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For Trial On Lismore Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 3

LISMORE. Fri--The fractured spine which had caused the death of 65-years-old age pensioner, Joseph Quilkey, at…

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Union Leader Gives Himself Up To Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday.--After eluding a State-wide search by police for eight days, Edward Joseph Rowe, leading Communist and Federal Councillor of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, gave himself up to custody at the Brisbane Trades Hall this…

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Minister For Lands Lodges Appeal In Land Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri--The Minister for Lands (Mr. Shea[?]an), who is himself a returned soldier and barrister, has lodged an appeal…

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Anti-Red Drive' By lndian Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 1

TALCUTTA, Sunday (A.A.P):--The Indian police, continuing their anti-Communist drive, arrested 69 people in East Pun-jab yesterday. Ten thousand workers in three textile mills in Bomber struck work as a protest against the arrest of…

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Clerk Arrested for Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--A 24-years-old clerk who reported to police to-day that he had been bashed and robbed of £23410…

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Acquitted on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Saying that the man he was charged with murdering had been his best friend, Michael Kelly (48),…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 4

In the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday, the Magistrate (Mr. E. I. Cocks), granted an application for the transfer of the…

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Cairo Police Go On Strike

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1

CAIRO, Mon. (A.A.P.)--Troops are standing by in Cairo because police officers and 1250 police cadets have gone on…

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Court-Martial To Hear Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1

BATAVIA, Mon. (A.A.P.).--An Australian court-martial from Sydney is likely within a few days to begin the hearing of a…

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Rowe Apologises To Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed.-- The Queensland Industrial Court to-day freed E. J. Rowe, A.E.U. councillor and a member of the…

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Stranger Charged No Visible Means

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 8

James William Omand, who said he was a returned serviceman from World Wars One and Two, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment,…

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Shire Matter Referred to Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 1

The Coffs Harbour Urban Committee received a letter at tbis week's meeting which had been addressed to the local Police. As the matter…

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Colored Men Appear at Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 6

Before Mr. E. I. Cocks SM, at Coffs Police Court on Tuesday, three coloured men appeared to answer various charges. For being drunk and…

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Two Years' Gaol On Cheque Charges

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 2

KEMPEY, Fri.--Gaol sentences totalling two years were imposed on William Thomas Moore, 36, in the Kempsey Court to-day,…

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Gaol Escapee Arrested

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sun.--The second arrest, of one of three men who escaped from Adelaide Gaol on March 28 was made to-night by a…

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Magistrate Comments On Prevalence Of Stealing

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR, Friday.--Charged with being in possession of goods reasonably suspected of having been stolen, Robert…

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Magistrate Warns Offending Aborigines

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR: At the Coff's Harbour Court of Petty Sessions when three aborigines appeared before Mr. E. I. Cocks,…

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