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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

743 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 38

Fijian Seamen Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—Three Fijian seamen were charged at trip Central Court to-day with murdering two Indians at Port…

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Haigh Faces Murder Trial

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).—John George Haigh, company director, had told Scotland Yard detectives…

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Eight Men Charged After Club Raids

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Vice Squad detectives arrested eight men in a lunch Hour raid on City Tattersall's Club, Pitt…

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licensing Court Next Week

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 2

The Full Bench of the Licensing Court will sit at Grafton next Wednesday' and Thursday. Among the matters to be heard…

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Police Certificate To South Grafton Water Brigade

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 3

A mounted and framed certificate of commendation from the N.S.W. Police Force was shown to members of the South…

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Man Charged After Fatal Stabbing

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Following the fatal stabbing at Paddington last night of 22-years-old Edward Colin Morris, of Chapman street, Surry Hills, a man walked into the Darlinghurst Police Station, this afternoon and gave himself up to detectives…

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Impressive Run By Comic Court

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 6

Randwick doubts about Comic Court were dispelled on Saturday when a part owner, Mr. Jack Lee announced that the colt…

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Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 5

In the, Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday Thomas Baker, 24, labourer, pleaded guilty to laying been found drunk' in…

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Tenancy Cases at Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 5

In two tenancy applications before Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, the, Magistrate declined…

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Gaol Sentence For Contempt

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.—By a majority decision of the Full Arbitration Court to-day, the assistant General Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association…

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Ironworkers' Strike Protest Against Gaol Sentence

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. — More than 14,000 ironworkers in Sydney will go on strike to-morrow in protest against the one…

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Men Acquitted On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Dramatically interrupting the defence, a jury in the Central Criminal Court to-day acquitted two men…

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Entertainments Mock Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 4

In an effort to raise all, or part of the money required to prbvide amenities for the South Grafton Infants School, the Buffalo Lodge in South…

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Only High Court Could Reverse Sentence

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs.—An appeal to the High Court was the only process which could be adopted by L. J. McPhillips against the…

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Police Arrest McPHILLIPS

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—L. J. McPhillips was arrested by police at his home to-night at 11.20 p.m. Police brought him back into City where he was charged at the Central Police Court…

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Police Warning To Country Visitors

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Chief Superintendent of the C.L.B. (Mr. W. C. S. Thompson) to-day issued a special warning to country visitors to Sydney over the Easter period. He appealed to visitors to…

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Pre-Easter Clean Up By Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Assisted by Interstate detectives, special police squads have made one of the biggest clean-ups of Sydney for…

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Railway Theft Brings Gaol Sentence

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 7

William Graham Martin Maiden, a railway employee at present under suspension, was sentenced to six months…

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Charged With [?] In Possession

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

Peter MacLachian, laborer, aged 52 was arrested by Dorrigo police in the bush near Megan last week and charged with…

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Bedridden Youth On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Lying on a bed with a broken back in front of the deck of the Central Criminal Court to-day, Robert Matthew Thomas, 19, labourer, was charged with the capi[?]al offence of murder…

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