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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 38

Expert Identifies Greyhound In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 3

LISMORE, Monday.—A dramatic development in the greyhound gracing case at the Lismore Court of Sessions to-day was the identification of a dog which won a race at Lismore on February 26 under the name of Bridle Havoc as Runaway Joe, a prominent…

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Another Attack on Arbitration Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 April 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.—The Arbitration Court was attacked to-day by the Victorian secretary of the Seamen's Union…

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Coffs Police Solve Mystery

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 4

A number of petty thefts from tents at Park Beach have been causing the occupants considerable worry. The Coffs…

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Student Denies Police Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—A student charged at the Central Court to-day with offensive behaviour during the Sharkey…

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Comic Court at Odds on

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 April 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The South Australian Comic Court, is at odds on for the four horse A.J.C. St. Leger to be run at Randwick on…

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Police Fail To Locate Witness For Inquest

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 April 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.—All efforts to find a missing witness for an inquest on a man scabbed to death had failed, police told the…

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Will Not Approach Court McPhillips To Serve Full Sentence

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Leslie John McPhillips told A.C.T.U leaders at Long Bay Gaol to-day that he would not approach the Court to ask for a review of his one…

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Son Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—A 20-stone, six foot six inch fireman, was charged at Redfern Police Station this morning with the…

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Easter At Gaol

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 2

Special Easter religious services for all denominations were conducted at the Grafton gaol. The prisoners were allowed to…

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Baffling Features In Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—Morbid curiosity brought hundreds of holiday makers to-day to Maroubra where squads of…

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Son Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Joseph George, Eaton, 33, fireman was allowed £1000 bail and remanded, to Central Court on…

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Gaol Escapees Remanded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

BATHURST, Mon.—At Carcoar last night two escapees from Bathurst gaol gave themselves up to police…

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Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—Detectives this afternoon arrested a man and charged him with the murder of Mervyn Francis Morrison (26)…

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Native Seamen On Murder Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Two native seamen on murder charges reached Sydney in the Aorangi in charge of an Adelaide detective…

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Police Chief Murdered

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

SHIELDS (Kentucky), Monday (A.A.P.).—The Harian County Police Chief, Ambrose Metcalfe was murdered in the…

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Police Shoot Armed Manic

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.).—An armed maniac was shot dead in Pullman, Washington State last night, after prowling…

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Three Men Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Three men who appeared at Central Court to-day on a charge of murder, were remanded at the request of the…

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Claims Men Hired To Commit Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Pre-war. representative in Australia of the Leipzig Trade Fair, Lars Gustav Brundahl, had procured four pugilistic tye hooligans to perpetrate a cowardly assault on the of his neighbours, said Mr. Rooney, K.C., at the Quarter Sessions…

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Police Court the Monthly List

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 1

The following cases were heard before Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at the Dorrigo Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday of…

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Evidence in Assault Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A fortnight before two couples were assaulted by four thugs, in Kent road, Rose Bay, a women…

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