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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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Police Suspect Man Poisoned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 3

COONAMBLE, Mon.--Concentrating on the theory that Claude William Woods (37), shearer, of Coonamble, was murdered with…

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Jury Discharged At Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 5

A JURY was discharged at Grafton Quarter Sessions by Judge Storkey, V. C. yesterday after a document relating to one of the jurors was tendered by the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. B. F. F. Telfer…

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Comic Court Still Third Favourite

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon.-- Even though she was beaten into third place in the Caulfield Cup last Saturday, Comic Court is still…

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Charged with Conspiring

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.-- In the Central Court to-day, two men were charged with having conspired together and with another man…

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Fingerprint Evidence In Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 3

PHOTOGRAPHIC enlargements of fingerprint impressions on two articles allegedly, stolen from a store at Coutts' Crossing were tendered as exhibits at Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday during the hearing of breaking and entering charges against four…

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Guilty Verdict In Coutts' Crossing Burglary Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 5

Four Sydney men charged with stealing a car at Lindfield on August 5 and breaking and entering a Coutts' Crossing…

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Police Rescue Man

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.-- Police have rescued a 27-year-old man who was allegedly attached by five men at a Brooklyn factory…

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Police Theory On Shearer's Death

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 2

COONAMBLE, Wed. -- The strychnine poisoning of the 37-year-old shearer, Claude William Woods, may have been the…

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Court Shorts

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

Mr. Capp, S.M., dealt with the following cases at the Dorrigo Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, October 12th:—…

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Cases Called at Coffs Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 8

Several cases were called for hearing at the last sitting of Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions Mr. A. E. Capp, SM, was…

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Court Looked Like Department Store

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- The Arbitration Court looked like a department store agai nto-day, when boxes of shoes and apparel…

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Gaol Escapees Recaptured

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.-- Gacl escapes in two States were recaptured yesterday. In New South Wales Briant…

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Gaol for Nazi

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sun. (AAP).-- Nazi secret service expert, General Karl Gutenberger, was sentenced to four years gaol at…

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Brothers Deny Assault Story

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 5

Evidence about an atlercation in a State forest near Halfway Creek was given at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Police Search for Missing Boy

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Police are searching for a 14-year-old boy who disappeared from his home at 11 Glenn Road. Arncliffe, on…

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Terrorists Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 1

PRAGUE, Tues. (AAP) .--The State Tribunal in the North- west Bohemian town of Lcuny sentenced to death four of a "band…

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Three Men Charged With Conspiracy

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Three men appeared in the Quarter Sessions to-day charged with conspiracy to cheat and defraud, the Crown…

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Army and Police Officers Executed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Tues. (AAP). -- Lieut- General George Paiffy, former Chief of the Hungarian Army and Assistant Minister of…

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Schoolboy Faces Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P).--A 12-year-old schoolboy has been charged with murder. The schoolboy, George Edward Crick, made…

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Police Search For Boy

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 3

LISMORE, Thursday.--Lismore district police to-night are searching for a 13 years old boy who has been missing from his home…

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