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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 36 of 38

Revision Court for Jury List

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 2

Between 70 and 86 Justices of the Peace attended yesterday's Revision Court at the Grafton Police Court, for the…

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Theft Charge Against Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 4

An aborigine woman, Mary Donovan. 33. domestic, of no fixed address, was charged at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Police Won't Have Gravel Rush

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 4

GUNNEDAH.--The Police Department has again refused a request by Gunnedah Municipal Council to lift extensive deposts…

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Court Rules Hotel Company Not Liable For Damages

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--The High Court ruled to-day that the employers of a barmaid. who threw a glass of beer at a…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 December 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.-- Homicide squad detectives, who believed that the mysterious death of a 64 years old ship's watchman…

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Five Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 December 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (AAP).--A young man, said to have savagely attacked and killed his mother, while under the influence of the…

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Charged 7000 Dollars for Train Ride

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 December 1949 · page 1

On board the Lakeland Victory off Taku Bar (China), Tuesday (A. A. P.).-- American Consul-General (Mr. Angus Ward) said…

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Police Evidence On Alleged Doping

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Sensational disclosures of alleged racehorse doping in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane were made in the Central Court to-day. Detective - Sergeant Lynch…

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To Face Trial For Murder Of Brother

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Thursday.--Mary Swan. 21. theatre usherette, of Evelyn street. Lithgow, was today committed for trial on a…

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Youths Charged With Governor's Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Fri. (AAP-Reuter)--When a preliminary inquiry into the death of the late Mr. Duncan Stewart, Governor of…

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Charged With Spying For France

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 1

WARSAW, Fri. (AAP).--Six defendants, four of them French, citizens, to-day faced a military court in Wroclaw, charged with…

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Migrant Faces Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 1

HILLSTON, Fri.--A Ukranian migrant was to-day committed for trial to Central Criminal, Court on a charge of haying…

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Police Seek Owners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 3

YAMBA.--Yamba police are looking for the owners of property that has been found and left at the local police station…

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Police Called To Chinese Airport

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 1

HONG KONG, Fri. (AAP-Reuter).--One hundred armed police were to-day rushed to Kaitak Airport when Chinese…

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Clarence Police In Promotion List

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--The following police promotions were announced by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Scrtt) to-day:…

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Warders Suspended Sequel To Escapes From Police Cell

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--Three warders were to-day suspended pending charges of negligence following the sensational escape of Darcy Ezekiel Dugan (28) and William…

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Hungarian Police Arrest Director

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1949 · page 1

VIENNA, Sun. (AAP).--Israel Jacobson Director of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Hungary, has been…

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Gaol For Coloured Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 4

A coloured woman, Mary Donovan, 33, domestic, was sentenced to three months' gaol by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton…

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Gaol For Nazi Commander

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 1

HAMBURG, Monday (A.A.P.).--Field-Marshal Erich Yon Manstein was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment to-day when a seven-man British Military Court found him…

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Extra Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 2

To cope with the expected influx of holiday-makers, extra police have been allotted to the Woolgoolga, Wooli, Iluka and…

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