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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Mother Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Nancy Ruth Oxley, at a Coroner's inquest to-day was committed for trial on a charge of…

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Gaol Escapees Recaptured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Four men who escaped from the Sale Gaol yesterday, were recaptured by police last night…

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Murder Charge; Youth Remanded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 2

INVERELL, Monday.--An 18 years old youth, charged with murdering his father and shooting another man with intent to…

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Police Warning On Straying Stock

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 2

"WE have every sympathy with stock owners who suffered in the flood, with fences washed away, and paddocks covered in silt and debris. But the straying stock poistion has become so serious that action has to be taken."…

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Extra Police For Road Patrol Work

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Additional police will be allotted to road patrol work in the city and country areas, as part of a drive to reduce the rate of accidents and deaths on the roads…

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Son Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--There was a surprise turn in an inquest at the Coroner's Court here to-day, when police…

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Headmaster Found Guilty On Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--Cyril Clifford J[?]ling (57), headmaster of the Belmont Public School, was convicted at the…

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Murder Charge; Man Remanded

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY. Wednesday.--Robert Knight Williams (45), labourer, as to-day remanded until July 26, by Mr. Hook, S.M., in…

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Two Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 4

BRISBANE, Wed.--Kenneth Glasford McDonald (21), shop assistant, and Isabel May Johnson (49), housewife, were…

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Assaulted Police; Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Judge Read to-day sentenced to nine months' imprisonment a father and his two sons, who assaulted…

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Flood Control Centre at Police Station

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 2

As the danger of pronounced rises in the river increased yesterday a staff of P.M.G. technicians under the direction of the Divisional Engineer (Mr. J. W. Entwisie), performed a rapid task in…

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Police Protection For Staff Men Making Gas

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Staff employees who will man gas-making plants from 6 a.m. tomorrow will have police…

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Theft Charges Against Grocer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 5

A Grafton grocer, Walter Edward Green. 40, of 184A Queen street, was remanded yesterday to August 21 on three charges…

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Court Warning To Cyclists

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 5

Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, said that he would deal severely in future…

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Charged With Murder Of Woman

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--A charge of murdering Mrs. Phyllis Page (50), of Blacktown, was preferred against Lionel…

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Japanese Found Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 4

LOS NEGROS, Wed. (AAP).--The Australian War Crimes Court to-day found four former Japanese soldiers guilty of murdering three Australian prisoners of war on Bougainville in 1943…

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Flood Information Police Station Control Centre

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 2

A flood control information centre had been established at Grafton Police Station, and would operate in any future major flood, said Inspector W. O.McEwan yesterday…

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Six Japanese Navy Men Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 4

LOS NEGROS, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Decapitation and bayoneting of about 50 Australian prisoners of war by Japanese Navy personnel were detailed by the prosecution at the War Crimes Court to-day…

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Licensing Court At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 3

MACLEAN.-- The Licensing Inspector (Sergt. T. A. Schuback) informed the Magistrate (Mr. A E. Capp) at Maclean…

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Court Ruler Had 33 Starts

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 7

When the six-year-old Agincourt gelding, Court Ruler, ran a close second to Castira in the last race of the…

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