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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 38

Committed For Trial For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A man who wept while a detective gave evidence, was committed for trial from the City Coroner's Court to-day, on a charge of having murdered his wife and two children…

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Police Search For Assailants Of Women

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Fearing a sex fiend, mothers at Rosebery will not allow their daughters out at night and are…

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Police Court £3 Fine for Stealing

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 1

Henry Rollinson, timber cutter, was fined £3 or 6 days h.l. for stealing a leather overcoat, the property of Colin Paterson Allen. Deft, said…

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Imprisonment for Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Two men were to-day sentenced to five years' imprisonment and a third to three years, for a "brutal and…

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Alleged Theft From Military Camp

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 3

PENRITH, Thurs--On a charge of stealing equipment valued at £10,000 from Wallgrove military camp, Ross Wedd, 40, an Army…

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Three Nations to Be Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday. (AAP)--Bulgaria, Hungary and Roumania will be charged in the United Nations' General…

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Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Maxwell Evatt Timothy (24), shunter, of Crown street, Wollongong, remanded in the Wollongong…

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Jockey Before Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. Jockey David Hugh (Darby) Munro was to-day acquitted on a charge of having driven a motor vehicle…

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Charged With Indecent Assault

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Civilians arrested a man who allegedly indecently assaulted a seven-year-old girl at Daceyville yesterday…

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Charged With Theft Of Beer, Pennies

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, SUN.--A masked man allegedly held up John Hamey, 43 of Herne last night and robbed him of two bottles of…

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Arbitration Court Criticised

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.--The Arbitration Court is 10 times worse than when the Labour Party took office, the secretary of the…

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Parliamentary Debate Halted By Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 1

ROME, Sim. (AAP).--Police intervened, to stop a debate in the Communist-dominated Parliament of the World's smallest…

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Denies Report On German Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Sun. (AAP).--The Berlin Radio, quoted by Reuter last night, denied foreign Press reports that the Russians had…

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Gaol for Stealing

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 4

Michael Anthony Herli[?] process worker, of Moonee [?] Victoria, was sentenced to[?] for one month[?]…

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Engineer Missing; Police Search

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Police are making State-wide searches in Victoria and South Australia for Bernard Williams Harnsworth, 44, engineer, who intended making a Pacific cruise with a man arid woman who were shipwrecked for three and a half…

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Policemen on Assault Charges

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Three former policemen pleaded not guilty in Redfern Court to-day to charges of having assaulted Leonard Kenneth Cross, 40, on July 27. The ex-Copstables, Edward…

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News in Brief Sentenced to Death

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tues. -- John William Bryan, 26, a machinist, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justce Dwyer in the Newcastle…

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Police Search for Children

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Police tonight are searching Sydney for three Dubbo hoys who are sleeking the thrills of city life, and…

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Court's Verdict in Assault Case

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Two former policemen charged with having assaulted a civilian while members of the police force, were discharged on good behaviour bonds In the Redfern Court to-day…

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Sentenced for Fraud

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Sentencing a former investigating architect for the Department of Building Materials to 12…

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