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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 38

Police Return To Coalfields

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 July 1949 · page 2

Parties of police from North Coast sub-districts will return to the coalfields area next week. Sergeant J. Parkinson and six…

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"Invaders" Needed Police Protection

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Fri (AAP). Bearded armoured Danish "Vikings" brandishing battleaxes yesterday "invaded" Britain—and…

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Police Officer To Inspect Sites

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 July 1949 · page 2

The Superintendent in Charge of the Northern Police Administrative District will make an inspection of available sites for the…

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New American Supreme Court Justice

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 July 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Fri. (AAP).—Upsetting predictions that he would pick a Catholic to succeed Mr. Justice Frank Murphy, who…

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Sentenced to Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

ATHENS, Sun. (A.A.P.).--A Greek military court has sentenced to death 36 communists, including 13 women, charged…

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Gaol For Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 4

MACLEAN.--George James, a coloured man, in the Maclean Court of Petty Sessions was sentenced to one month's…

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Court to Review Conviction

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The High Court, during its current Sydney sittings will review the conviction of Laurence Louis Sharkey, general secretary of the communist party, on a charge of having uttered seditious words…

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Inter-Union Dispute Before Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.—An application by the Australian Workers' Union to restrain the Miners' Federation from enlisting…

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Police Watch for Stolen Truck

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--All country police stations have been alerted to watch for a truck containing £1500 worth of merchandise…

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Mass Gaol Break

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3

MORELLA (Mexico), Thurs. (AAP).--Forty-nine prisoners who escaped yesterday in a mass gaol break have surrendered, but…

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"Trance" Artist Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Miss Rosaleen Norton, Sydney "trance" artist, 30 was charged under the Police Offences Act with having…

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"Murder Chart" By Home Office

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Between 1940 and 1949 there [?] 1530 murders in Britain, [?]ding to a "murder chart"…

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Security Police Interrogate Brisbane Mayor

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday--Less than 24 hours after he had appealed for a public meeting to "protect human rights, liberties…

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Demonstration March Stopped By Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Thurs.--Police to-day prevented 100 people from staging a demonstration march in Lithgow's main…

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Police Seek "Mr. X" About Doping Of Duke Of Syke

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Police have been instructed to locate question a "Mr. X" about the doping of the racehorse, Duke of Syke…

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Investigating Jewel Theft

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 2

NICE, Fri. (AAP).—Police investigating the theft of about £160,000 worth of jewellery from the Aga Khan and his wife near…

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Says Assault Story False

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—Allegations that a man had been assaulted, robbed and thrown overboard from a Manly ferry last night…

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German War Criminals Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 1

LILLE, Sun. (AAP).--A French military tribunal sentenced to death eight of nine German S.S. men charged with taking part in…

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Manhunt After Theft At Coutts' Crossing

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 3

An intense manhunt through wild bush country after five men suspected of having Broken into G. H. Fletcher's store at Coutts' Crossing and stolen goods and money, was…

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Aboriginal on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 3

DARWIN, Mon.--An aboriginal, "Next Day" (blackfellows' name Meetppoonoong) was committee for trial by Magistrate J. W…

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