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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 21 of 38

Court Order Sought on Wharf Pay

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Forty per cent, of Australia's coastal shipping was tied up because of the strike, the chief industrial officer of the Commonwealth Steamship…

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Men Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 2

LISMORE, Tues.--Three men to-day were charged at the Circuit sittings of the Supreme Court at Lismore with the…

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Manhunt Continues Theft of Food From Home

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 2

Latest development in the police search for the men who are believed to have broken into Mr. G. H. Fletcher's store at Coutts' Crossing on Sunday, was a report of a theft…

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Supreme Court at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 2

Mr. Justice Clancy will preside at the Supreme Court at Grafton on Monday next at 2 p.m. Jurors must attend at 1.45…

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Charged with Murder of Cousin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Committed for trial on a charge of the murder of his cousin, a 32-year-old gardener, Ronald…

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Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Wed.--An organiser of the entertainment committee of the Communist-dominated Lithgow Miners' Area…

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Assault Charge Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--A charge of assault against racehorse trainer Jack Green, of Kensington, by hotel steward, Robert Rooney,…

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Court Rejects Wharf Pay Application

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The application by ship owners to restrict attendance money payments to waterside workers was dismissed by Mr. Justice Kirby in the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr. Justice Kirby said the…

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Court's Finding Of Accidental Drowning

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 1

MAITLAND, Wed.--The Maitland Coroner to-day stopped a man from asking his 11-year-old son why he had not…

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Woman's "Husbands" Sit In Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Both "husbands" of Mrs. Edna Forence May Abdullah, 36 of Temora, sat together in the Divorce…

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Bush Search For Men Called Off By Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2

THE district-wide search by police and civilians for the two remaining men wanted for questioning about the Coutts' Crossing store robbery late on Saturday night has been called off. Inspector W. O. McEwan, of…

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Magistrate Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri.-- At the Courthouse to-day, at the conclusion of the hearing of a case in the Court of Petty…

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Wage Increase For Police Officers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--Non-commissioned police officers to-day were granted a £30 a year Wage increase by the president of the…

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Priest Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sun. (AAP.).--Wladyslaw Gurgacz, Catholic priest, said to have led an underground "army of Polish…

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Two Men Charged With Breaking And Entering

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY Sun--Police on patrol at Maroubra this morning found two p[?]ke[?] machines billiard balls and other articles worth about…

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Official Opening Church Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 5

MACLEAN.--The official opening of the tennis court in Maclean Presbyterian Church grounds was performed on Saturday…

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Union Officials Apply to Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--Affidavits made by imprisoned union leaders in support of applications to purge their contempt of the Federal Arbitration Court will be filed with…

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Further Evidence In Assault Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 4

Evidence for the plaintiff in the North street assault, action was completed at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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£10 Fine for Stealing Fish Traps

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 2

Frederick Auton Kennedy (37), a fisherman, was fined £10 and ordered to pay £3 5s compensation, by Mr. E. L…

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S.M. Farewelled At Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 4

Mr. E. I. Cocks, SM, has been transferred to the relieving staff at Coffs Court on Friday last. He has been conscientious…

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