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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 38

America Charged on Reparations

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Fri. (AAP).--A charge that the U.S. was helping to revive Japan's ability to wage war by calling…

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Gruesome Murder Mystery

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 1

AUCKLAND, (N.Z.), Sun (A.A.P-Reuter).—A gruesome mystery murder was discovered in a dancing studio…

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Search After Alleged Indecent Assault

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun—Police at Redfern are still investigating an alleged indecent assault on a six years old girl about seven o'clock…

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Man Sentenced on Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 2

CAIRNS, Mon.--Tetsu Ichiro Utaka Kitagawa also known as Frank Loyal Weaver when convicted in Cairns Police Court…

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Three Montlis'Gaol For Assaulting Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 5

Charles Richard Hoskins (27) was fined £2 for being drunk and disorderly and sentenced to three months gaol for…

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Criminal Assault Charge; Remanded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Charged with having criminally assaulted a 17-year-old girl in Collingwood on Saturday night, a man was…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.--When charged before Mr. J. A. Harris, S.M., in Central Court to-day,- with murder, Edwin George Woodsford, 38…

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Arrest After Island Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.--Police have arrested a Chinese coolie in connection with the death of Mr. and Mrs. Allen at Ocean Island…

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Police Theory on Murdered Dancing Teacher

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Mon. (AAP Reuter).--Police believe the murdered dancing teacher Frederick Edney, aged 55 to 60,…

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Murder Reward

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues A reward of £1000 for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of Miss Mary Fahy, 62, will remain on…

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Man Charged With Illegal Gold Export

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--A Customs officer said in the Special Federal Court to-day that a barman had admitted having hidden gold…

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Burning Home Saved By Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 2

MACLEAN, Thurs. -- Two members of the Maclean police force helped to extinguish a fire in a small Yamba cottage last…

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Better Out Than In, Says Gaol Governor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1949 · page 2

Although he was described at the meeting as a most efficient and humane administrator, the Governor of the Grafton Gaol…

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Sequel In Court To Yamba Fire

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1949 · page 2

MACLEAN, Fri.--Valentine Edward Garde was to-day charged at the Maclean Police Station that on May 25, he…

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Three Men Charged With Stealing

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.-- In an early, morning raid in the King's Cross area to-day, detectives arrested three men and charged them with…

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Police Arrest 13

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 3

Grafton and South Grafton police, in a raid on premises in Grafton, where it is alleged starting price betting was being…

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Police Guard Horses For English Derby

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Mon. (AAP).-- A police guard will be placed on all Derby horses when they reach Epsom stables early this week…

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Aboriginal Sentenced for Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 1

DARWIN, Tues.—A jury in the Northern Territory Court in Darwin to-day, found aboriginal Bobbie guilty of the…

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General Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 1

BUCHAREST, Tues. (AAP).--General George Rozin, once acting chief of the Rumanian General Staff, is one of four…

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Another Police Officer Wanted

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 5

BELLINGEN.--Bellingen Chamber of Commerce, at its last meeting, decided to write to the Commissioner of Police,…

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