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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 38

Hospital Patient Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—In a bedside court at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, late this afternoon a man whom doctors say…

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Charged With Buying Votes

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 1

TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Bugata police have taken out a warrant for the arrest of Shoji Tanaka, who was elected…

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Former Judge Charged With Embezzlement

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 1

NEWARK (New Jersey), Thurs. (A.A.P.).—A 38-year-old former polices judge, Pelligrino James PeUecchia, yesterday received a…

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Bankruptcy Court Examination

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 5

An examination in bankruptcy under section 80, of Clifton Gilmore, of Halfway Creek, in regard to ownership…

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Outburst In Bankruptcy Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A middle-aged spinster in the Bankruptcy. Court to-day dramatically shouted a threat to shoot the…

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Horse Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1949 · page 3

A young man was fined by Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M. at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, on two counts of…

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Stealing Charges Stood Over

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1949 · page 3

On an amended charge of stealing 20 steel brackets valued £4, the property of the C.R.C.C., at Koolkhan, on December 14,…

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Committed On Gun Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1949 · page 3

Colin Keith Craft, 33, labourer, of Mountain View, was yesterday committed for trial by Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at the…

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Police Arrest Wanted Red

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.).—The F.B.I, agents yesterday arrested Sam Carr, a Russian-born former organiser of the…

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Story Of Melee Told In Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—The story of a wild melee in the Roxy Cafe, Park street, during January, was told to Mr. Hawkins, S.M.,…

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Police Certificate to Brigade

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. James F. Scott) has presented a certificate to the South Grafton Volunteer Water…

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Tolerates Woman, Objects To Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.—A man, who withstood kicking, punching and scratching by a woman for several minutes last night, lost…

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Court Cases From Saturday Arrests

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 5

At Coffs Police Court yesterday a colored man, Kingsford Davis was remanded on a charge of stealing a glass. It…

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Defendant Claims Gaol Lift Hurt His Back

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 5

"I can't do much work. I have a bad back through lifting a 40 gallon drum of kerosene at Maitland gaol. I have a crook…

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Court House Trials—And Tribulations

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 2

Chaotic conditions prevail at the Grafton Court House building, while the structure is being painted inside and out…

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Remanded to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

LOS ANGELES, Wed. (A.A.P.).—The ex-world tennis champion, William Tilden, was remanded to gaol yesterday,…

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Wanted Few Days' Freedom From Gaol

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 2

Douglas Francis Hardie, who was sentenced to three months imprisonment at Kempsey Police Court for escaping from…

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Police Reports On Bribery Witness

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Scotland Yard reports on Sydney Stanley, who was the principal witness at the Lynskey Tribunal…

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Sentenced For Brutal Attack

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—An ex-policeman and his two associates were to-day sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for a…

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Police Probe on Russian's Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Sydney police will re-open the investigation into the mysterious death of a White Russian, who is believed by compatriots, to have been "murdered.on orders from Moscow." Police stated to-night that…

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