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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 38

Police Theory On Skeleton

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Thurs.—Detectives investigating the discovery of a skeleton at Govett's Leap are now of the opinion it is that…

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Police Suspect Derailment Was Deliberate

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 2

LISMORE. Thurs.—Police suspect that the derailment of the engine of the Casino Murwillumbah Express train this…

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Gunman Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Judge Curlewis, in the Quarter Sessions, to-day, sentenced a 24 years old gunman to 11 1/2 years' gaol. He said he…

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Charged Under Crimes Act

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—Sanley John Wordley, 32, labourer, appeared in Central Court to-day on we charges under the Commonwealth…

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Court Order On Sharpley Articles

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—In the Equity Court to-day the "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Herald" and Weekly Times" (Melbourne) were granted an ex parte injunction restraining Consolidated Press Ltd. from infringing copyright of the articles…

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Woman Charged With Administering Poison

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fashionably dressed, pretty, Judith Ivora Pauline Russell (20), hairdresser, of Brighton Le Sands was charged at Paddington Court to-day with administering poison to Marie Phyllis Kenneth, with intent to murder…

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Two Men on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—Two attendants at the Callan Park Mental Hospital, William Ternan (52), and Carleton Howard Shadlow…

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Unclaimed Parcel At Police Station

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

Grafton police are puzzled why, there has been no claimant for a parcel of boy's and woman's clothing which was handed in at…

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Gaol For Assault On Child

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Judge Curlewis at the Quarter Sessions to-day imposed the maximum penalty, of five years' imprisonment…

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Valuation Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 4

MACLEAN.—At the Harwood Shire Valuation Court Mr. W. B. Fleming, who appeared for the council asked for an…

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Coffs Police do Effective Work

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 8

Over the Easter and Anzac Day holidays, in fact over the past month or so, Coffs Harbour has been comparatively quiet…

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Police Sergeant Ends Service Soon

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 2

Sergeant L. W. Freebody, who will begin his retirement leave from the Police Department next month, has been stationed…

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N.R.M.A. Praise For Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 8

The NRMA has forwarded to the Commissioner of Police its congratulations upon the work of traffic police in handling…

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Cashier Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Fri.—Selwyo Allan Thomas Bennett, 39, a cashier, of Caulfield, was sentenced to three years' gaol when…

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Escapees Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 1

BATHURST, Fri.—Ray Abbott and David S. Murphy two convicts who escaped from Bathurst Gaol on Easter Saturday, were…

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Four Years for Conspiring to Assault

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri. — Four years' imprisonment was imposed on Lars Gustav Brundahl, at the Quarter Sessions to-day, when…

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Youths Charged with Offences Against Girls

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 6

At Ulmarra Children's Court yesterday, Mr. E. J. Cocks, S.M., committed four youths for trial on charges of having unlawfully…

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Police Investigate Island Deaths

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 6

BRISBANE, Friday.—Detective and finger print experts are leaving Brisbane by boat to-morrow to investigate what is…

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Charged with Manslaughter After Accident

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—Early this afternoon detectives arrested three men and a woman, and charged them with the…

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Wife Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Accused of bashing her husband to death with a hammer at Enfield, a crippled woman was remanded…

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