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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

752 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 31 of 38

Sentenced For Spying

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 6

WARSAW, Sun. (AAP).--A Warsaw Military Court has sentenced seven Poles to death and three others, including two…

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Retiring From Police Force

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 2

BELLINGEN.--At the conclusion of the court business at Bellingen Courthouse, opportunity was taken to bid farewell…

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Strangled Child; Sought Police Aid

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sun. (AAP).--Dolores Gatto, 34-year-old spinster, of Richmond, California, called the police for help…

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Police Chase Man Across Roofs

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun. -- Detectives, with guns drawn, caught a man at Annandale to-day after a roof-top to roof-top chase over…

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Long Overland trip By Police Officer

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 2

Constable M. C. R. Barnby, his wife and two infant children, arrived in Grafton on Friday night last, after…

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Trail Of Blood As Walked To Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Leaving a trail of blood on roads and footpaths, a man walked a mile to Darlinghurst Police Station…

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Ballot Paper Leakage To Be Investigated By Security Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--The Commonwealth Electoral Officer, Mr. R. W. Evans, said to-night he would call in Security…

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Charged With Wounding Wife

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--A 67-yearold labourer had hit his wife on the head with an iron bar "a lot of times." the Central Court was…

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Old Offender Sent to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 4

"This man has been convicted on 24 counts of false pretences, the most recent in July this year. He also had a…

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Back to Gaol for Twelve Months

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2

Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, James William Bugg…

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Jap Officers On MurderCharge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, Monday (AAP-Reuter)--General Masatka Yamawaki, former Japanese ViceMinister of War, was charged before the War Crimes Court here to-day with the murder of…

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Police Officer Resents Criticism

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 4

He resented criticism of police action in doing their job of putting down the practice of people riding bicycles…

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Employers Apply To Arbitration Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Mon.--Employers organisations affiliated with the Queensland Employers' Federation have lodged an application…

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Court Ruling

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Tues. (AAP)--The Supreme Court has ruled, in effect, that a wife may sue her husband's employer if…

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Police Commissioner Impressed With Streets At Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 2

He was greatly impressed with Grafton's wide treelined streets, especially from a traffic points of view, said…

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Fire Causes Postponement Of Court Action

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 3

The fire at Yamba yesterday had the effect of postponing a case set down for hearing at yesterday's Grafton…

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Sentenced To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--Stanley Hannah, 27, haulage contractor, of Gladesville, was sentenced to 21 months' gaol at the Central…

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Charged With Murder Of Daughter

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--A woman charged with murdering her 19-year-old daughter with an axe had suffered such bad…

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Evidence Of Talks In Maitland Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--An inmate of Maitland Gaol serving two years sentence for false pretences, told the Coroner, Mr. Halpin, to-day that William Birtle (25), fisherman, had confessed to the…

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Special Police for Bonn

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 4

GOSLAR (Germany), Mon. (AAP).--A German official here disclosed that up to 500 former Wehrmacht officers and…

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