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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 34 of 38

High Court Ruling On Basic Wage Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--The High Court to-day refused to grant a writ of mandamus, ordering the Arbitration Court to resume the suspended hearing of the…

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Three Years' Prison For Stealing Money

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 3

LISMORE, Tues.--Imprisonment for three years, with a recommendation that it be served on a prison farm was passed by…

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Boy Acquitted of Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).--George Edward Crick, aged 12, yesterday walked down the granite steps of Old Bailey…

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Coff's Needs New Courthouse And Police Station

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR.--At the monthly meeting of the Coff's Harbour Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Maxwell Eyles…

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Counsel Sentenced For Contempt

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. (A.A.P.).-- Vincent Hallinan, chief counsel for Australian- born Harry Bridges, was sentenced to six months for criminal contempt of court…

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Police Suspended At Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 3

DORRIGO, Wed.-- A police sergeant with 29 years' service and two constables were to- day suspended from duty and…

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Police Halt March Of Peasants

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 1

ROME, Wed. (AAP).-- Land- grabbing Sicilian peasants ran into sharp police resistance yesterday. Fighting…

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Military Nature Of "People's Police"

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (A. A .P).-- Latest information makes clearer than ever the military nature of the Bereitschaften, the special units of the "People's Police" in the Soviet zone of Germany, says the "Times" Berlin correspondent…

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Gaol Sentence For Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Maxwell Evatt Timothy, 24, a shunter, of Crown street, Wollongong, was sentenced to seven years' gaol by…

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To Stand Trial On Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Thurs.--James Alexander McLean, former leading Bricklayer at Lithgow power house was to-day…

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Police Sensation at Dorrigo

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 8

Three members of Dorrigo Police Force, including a sergeant with 29 years' service in the Force, were committed at…

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Dorrigo Police Officers Committed For Trial Man Alleges Bashing By Policeman Application Made for Preferment of Perjury Charge

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 9

After what has probably been the longest hearing in the Dorrigo Court House, three Dorrigo police officers, Sgt. Alric Roy Beavan and Constables Clement Harley McCarthy and Walter Keeble were committed for trial by Mr. E. I. Cooks,…

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Sentenced to Death

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Fri. (AAP).--Daniel Raven 23 was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging after a jury at Old Bailey had found…

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Damaged Police Property

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1949 · page 5

Fay Allen, alias Fay McFarlane, 31. domestic, of no fixed address appeared before Messrs. H. G. Greenaway and A. C…

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Seeking Rescission Of Court Order

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--The parents of a woman who was poisoned by her husband in 1946 to-day sought in the Equity Court the rescission of an order granting the husband's mother and brother access to the murdered woman's children…

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Couple On Charge Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 November 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.--Police last night charged a man and his wife with murder, after the death of a young woman in…

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More Time for Court Hearings

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 November 1949 · page 2

The Justice Department has approved of an amendment of the roster of the Stipendiary Magistrate. Grafton, to provide for his…

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Men Sentenced For Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Convicted of an attack which resulted in the deathof a 70-year-old pensioner John McCann (26) and Frank…

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Police Investigate S.A.J.C. Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tues.--Detectives to-day began an investigation into the circumstances concerning the warning off of two men…

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Theft At Wagga Bowling Club

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 7

Between 8 p.m. on . Saturday and 8 a.m. on . Sunday, thieves broke into the premises, of the Wagge Bowline Club and stole…

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