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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 38

Charged With Murder Of Woman

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Police, this morning charged a 35 years old man with the wilful, murder of Mrs. Margaret Catherine…

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Ravdell Found; Taken To Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.--Solomon Ravdell (70), kidnapped from his South Yarra home four nights ago, staggered to the home of a Country Road Board employee at…

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Charged With Murder Of Wife

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.--A 35-year-old man strangled his estranged wife as she lay in bed on Friday night, police said in…

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Evidence On Women's Budgets Before Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--The average unmarried working woman who spends £135 a year on clothes would not be…

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Write Against Paper For Contempt Of Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 1

HONG KONG, Mon. (AAP- Reuter).--The Full Court this morning granted the Attorney-General's application for writs…

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Argument On Cooking Lands Man In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Mon. (AAP).-- An argument over how long eggs should he cooked landed a man in gaol yesterday…

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News in Brief Charged with Wife's Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.--A hotel keeper kicked wife causing injuries which led to her death, it was alleged in the Ballarat…

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Actor Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 1

KANSAS CITY (Kansas), Tues. (A.A.P.).--Rex Ingram, 54- year-old negro actor, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in…

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Girls' Budgets As Court Evidence

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Justice Dunphy told a female witness in the basic wage case to-day that she should "reorient"' her views about prejudice to women. Miss Muriel Heagney, a…

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Parents Charged With Manslauhgter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 1

HOBART, Wed.--A man and wife pleaded not guilty in the Criminal Court to-day, of the manslaughter of their…

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Charged with Blowing Up Plane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 5

QUEBEC, Wed. (AAP).--Mrs. Arthur Pitre, 33, testified here that she had bought dynamite for Albert Guay, who is charged…

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Found Not Guilty of Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 5

BALLARAT, Wed.--A former Hopetoun publican charged in Ballarat Supreme Court to-day with having murdered his wife,…

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High Court Decisions On

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed. -- Judgments on the validity of the free medicine scheme and on questions arising from the trial of the…

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Mailman Charged with Theft

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 7

Before Mr. A. E. Capp, SM, at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Malcolm McLaughlin was fined £5 and…

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Three Months for Stealing Ring

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 2

Harold lack Crane, of Bo Bo, Eastern Dorrigo, was sentenced to three months hard labor by Mr. A. E. Capp, SM, at Coffs…

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Police Round Up in Prague

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday, (AAP).-- Unofficial, but reliable reports from Prague say several hundred Prague citizens were arrested in…

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Orara Shire Council Rates increased To Meet Court Charges

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 3

ORARA Shire rates have been raised by 12d in the pound to provide for the repayment of a loan of £12,000 to meet damages and costs arising from recent court litigation. The decision was reached at…

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Parents Sentenced For Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 October 1949 · page 6

HOBART Friday.--The parents of a five- year- old boy who allegedly died as a result of their neglect were sentenced to seven years' gaol in the Criminal Court to-day. The parents, Maurice Rex…

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Sentenced to Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 3

CAIRO, Sun.--The Supreme Military Tribunal to-day sentenced to death Abdul Megid Hassan, veterinary student,…

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Gaol Sentence For Unlawful Assault

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--A detective claimed in North Sydney Court to-day that a man had threatened to have a woman shot if…

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