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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 38

New Magistrate Welcomed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 6

Mr. A. E. Capp, SM, who has succeeded Mr. E. I. Cocks in this district had his first sitting at Coffs Harbour on Tuesday. He…

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Three Years' Gaol On Fraud Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--In the Sydney Quarter Sessions to-day Judge Curlewis sentenced to three years' hard labour a man…

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Police Guard for Windsors

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 4

PARIS, Thurs. (AAP).--Following reports that gangsters planned to hold up their car, police yesterday lined the route…

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Police Return From Macleay

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

Sergeant Peterkin, of Coramba police station, made a mercy flight over the Macleay district during his tour of duty in the…

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Seaman Before Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 4

Douglas Dale Farley, 28, a seaman from the ship Kopua, appeared at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday charged with…

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Young Couple Go to Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 7

A young couple, married only two years with a young baby, were antogonists in Coffs Court of Petty Sessions…

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Convict Escapees Appear In Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--The five convicts who escaped from French Island Reformatory Prison on Tuesday appeared in the City…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 4

LITHGOW, Sunday.-- Two men have been charged with the murder of Jack Gelek, 70, who died, in the Lithgow Hospital last…

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Four Months' Gaol After Court-Martial

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Sun. (AAP). --A seaman who claimed he was shanghaied into the Foreign Legion has been given…

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Dobson Charged in Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--William Dobson, 22, arrived to-night from Townsville by plane under police guard, and was taken to the…

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Magistrate Mmes Appeal to Parties

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 4

COFF'S HARBOUR.--When a young man appeared at the Coff's Harbour Court of Petty Sessions to answer…

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Dobson Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--William Thomas Dobson, 22, of Addison road, Manly, was charged before Mr. Harris, S.M., in the…

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Face Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 3

LITHGOW, Monday.--At the Police Court to-day Frank Edward Whye, 39, half-caste aborigine, and John McCann, 27, of…

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Police Escape In Flood Rescue

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 3

One of the most exciting and dangerous experiences of the Kempsey flood was that of Constable George Baxter and Mr…

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Air Pilot In Bankruptcy Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--An air pilot who admitted owing £14,228 told the Bankruptcy Court to-day that it had cost him £45…

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Mass Gaol Break

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 5

BATAVIA, Tuesday, (AAP-Reuter).--Two hundred Indonesian prisoners made a mass gaol break from Siantar Prison,…

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Remanded on Theft Charges

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.--Hugh Hansen Young, 60, said by police to have attempted to take his own life, was remanded without bail…

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Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 7

Michael Anthony Herilby (43), a process worker, of Moo[?]ee Ponds. Victoria, was remanded yesterday by Mr. J. R. Scarlett,…

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Escapees Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--Handcuffed together, and under heavy police guard, two young men who escaped from Long Bay…

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Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--Rex. Liewellyn Flan[?]gan, 33, cook, was remanded until September 22, at Manly Court to-day on a…

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