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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Court Rules No Damages Limit On Bus Injuries

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Mr. Justice Kinsella in the Supreme Court to-day ruled that injured bus passenders were entitled to collect unlimited damages from the Transport Commissioner and were not bound…

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Fuchs Sentenced To 14 Year's Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--Top British atom scientist Dr. Klaus Fuchs, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment at the Old Bailey to-day by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Goddard)…

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Specialist in Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--George Stanley Thompson, 68, Macquarie street Specialist, and Jack Armstrong, 27, labourer, Shakespeare…

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Sentenced On Charge Of Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thurs.--A former Sydney tram conductress was to-day sentenced to four years' gaol on a manslaughter charge by…

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Charged with Drowning Child

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Thurs.--Anna Matilda Hoff, 60, alleged to have drowned her unmarried daughter's newly-born baby in…

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Three Years' Gaol for Motorist

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.-- Judge Curlewis, in the Quarter Sessions to-day, sentenced a motorist to three years' gaol for manslaughter…

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Charged With Damage Of Rented House

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.-- Norman Leslie Walter, 41, dealer, faced three charges at North Sydney Court to-day relating to the damaging…

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Spat In Wife's Face; One Month's Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.-- A salesman was sentenced to a months' gaol in the Paddington Court to-day for spitting in his wife's face. He…

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High Prices Charged For Sands-Olsen Fight

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY. Fri.--Prices for the Dave Sands-Carl Olsen fight at the Sydney Stadium on March 20 are the highest since the…

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Court Remand

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 2

John Hoskins, 33, of no fixed address, was charged at Grafton Court yesterday with having obtained 193 by false pretences…

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Murder-suicide in U. S. A.

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 4

KNOXVILLE (Tennessee), Fri. (A. A. P.).-- Fred Rutherford, 55, unemployed, using a shotgun, killed his wife and mother-in-law,…

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Court Move Against Meat Industry Union

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fr.-- A court move was made to-day against the Meat Industry Employees' Union on the ground that it aided and…

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Three Men On Murder Charge In Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun. -- In a raid on a suburban house at down to-day, senior homicide detectives arrested two men,…

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Youth Sentenced To Two Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 4

A youth was sentenced to two years' gaol by Judge Shortland at Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday after…

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Men Remanded On Murder Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--William James Rundle and John Percival Waters were remanded until March 10 at the City Court…

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Three Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 3

John Hoskins, 33, of no fixed address, was sentenced, to three months gaol by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty…

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Charged With Shooting At Husband

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--A policeman's wife appeared in North Sydney Court to-day charged with having shot at her husband…

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Order at Maclean Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 5

MACLEAN.--At the conclusion of evidence in the Fair Rents Court at Maclean, in the case Violet Rose Paterman versus…

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Year's Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 5

At Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday, Gordon Nairn, 25, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for breaking and entering…

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Police Sergeant Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 2

Sergent 3rd-Class S. L. Schaefer, was farewelled by his follow officers of the Grafton Police Force at the Grafton Police…

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