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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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Police Action Against Hooliganism

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 8

Coffs Police are making special efforts to stamp out hooliganism and misbehaviour in public places. As a result…

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Court Sequel To Motor Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 3

A traffic prosecution against Arthur Roy Lentfer, of Grafton, was commenced before Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at…

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Man Charged with Theft

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—A man was to-day charged with the theft of £640 from the well-known Sydney bookmaker, Arthur…

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Boxer Sentenced On Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1949 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Wednesday.—Ritchie Sands, a member of the famous boxing family and a brother of Dave Sands, the Australian champion, faced Ron Richards and came out with glory, but in the Kempsey Police Court to-day he had to take six months' gaol…

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Stole From Poor Box; Youth Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.—A laborer, who stole £3 from a church poor box was sentenced to two years' imprisonment to-day…

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Bandits Sentenced To Ten Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Two men who held up a city florist shop last year were to-day each sentenced to 10 years' hard labour…

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Gandhi's Assassin Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Nathurman, Vinayak Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, was sentenced to death by a Special…

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Star Sentenced On Drug Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Thursday.—(A.A.P.).—The film star, Robert Mitchum was sentenced to 60 days in gaol and put on…

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Hungary May Be Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—The Western Powers may place charges against Hungary before the United Nations on the ground that Hungary has…

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Former Minister's Son Named In Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The son of the late Thomas John Ley, once New South Wales Minister for Justice, was named in a…

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Stern Gang Leaders Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 1

TELAVIV, Friday (A.A.P.).—Sentenced to eight and five years gaol respectively for Having been the leaders of a terrorist…

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Court Experts Quit Hungary

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).—In a sensational dispatch from Vienna the "Daily Mail" and the American Associated Press correspondents report that official…

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Police Bury Unidentified Man

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Sun.-Police have decided to bury the body of a middlee-aged, map found slumped against the seawall at Somerton…

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Charged With Assault

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

Noel James Campbell (23), of Baryulgil, was admitted to the Grafton Base Hospital yesterday, suffering from lacerated wounds…

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Soviet Charged On Slave Labour

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—The United States yesterday charged the Soviet Union with having between…

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Queen Mary At Juvenile Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Tousled young East End offenders were overwhelmed and shamefaced in the Juvenile…

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Unlawful Assault At Asbestos Mine

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

Appearing before Messrs. W. C. F. Sheather and E. C. Avery, J.'s P., in the Grafton Court yesterday en a charge of having…

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Charged With Intent To Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A soldier, George Charles Clarke, 33, of Darby street, Vaucluse, was charged at Liverpool Court…

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Graf ton Man In Bankruptcy Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Mervyn Leonard McHenry, 202 Queen street, Grafton, was arrested to-day and sentenced to 21…

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Tilden Sentenced On Molesting Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 1

LOS ANGELES, Fri. (A.A.P.). —The former world tennis champion Bill Tilden, was to-day sentenced to one years'…

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