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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Step-Brother On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.-- The battered and partly decomposed body of a man was found by police in a blood-spattered…

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Had Loaded Gun; Woman Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--An Italian, Mrs. Assunta Barduca (61), of Adelaide, was remanded in the Adelaide Police Court…

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Held On Murder Count

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.--David Eccles (54), was remanded in the City Court to-day until January 9, on a charge of…

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Comic Court Likely For Sydney Cup

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.-- Comic Court, outstanding Australian race Horse is expected race in Sydney at the autumn carnival,…

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Charged With Murder Of Two Babies

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A young married woman screamed and then collapsed in the dock at the City Court to-day, when she was remanded on charges of having murdered her two babies…

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Police To Probe Ill -treatment Charges

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs. -- Cabinet decided to-day that police must immediately investigate published allegations by a Sydney…

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Police Boys Club

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Sun.--With assets valued, at nearly £5000, the Tamworth Police and Citizen Boys Club has played an…

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Murder Trial for Shearer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 1

BATHURST, Mon.--A 21-year-old Victorian shearer, Ronald Newman Cribben, was committed for trial at the Bathurst Coroner's Court to-day on a charge of maliciously murdering a Rockdale taxi…

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Boy Hands Money To Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--David Simmona, of Dudley street, Coogee, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, handed £28 to Rand wick police, after he…

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Provost Marshal For Court Martial

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.(AAP).--The Deputy Provost Marshal of British troops in Egypt is under arrest awaiting…

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Else Koch Throws Fit In Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 1

AUGSBURG, (Germany). Fri.(AAP).-- Maximum punishment--life imprisonment--for Ilsaekoch, the "Red Witch" of…

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Communist Armies Prepare To Assault U.N. Defence Line

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

TOKIO, Sun. (AAP-Reuter).--More than 300,000 Communist troops massed along the western and central sectors of the Korean front are preparing to launch a two-pronged assault against the 150-mile U.N. defence line, says Ronald…

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Defendant In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 5

When a part-heard assault case was called before Mr. A. E. Capp, at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, it…

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Titian, Skip Court For Challenge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.--Race plans for Titian and Skip Court Lave been changed and both horses will now run in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday week…

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Doctor On Driving Charge At Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Prominent Sydney doctor, Reginald Stuart Jones, 48, was given a stomach pump on Sunday morning,…

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Not Man Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 4

Desmond Roy Cowan, 21, labourer, of Copmanhurst, said yesterday that he was not identical with the person giving…

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School Students Clash With Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 1

CAIRO, Tues. (AAP).-- Sixty students and 20 police were injured when secondary school students…

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Killian for Skip Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Appentrice Brian Killian snapped up an offer to ride Skip Court in the Challenge Stakes, after the horse had run an attractive trial at Victoria Park to-day…

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N.Z. Police Exhume Woman's Body

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 1

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter).--Police early today exhumed the body of Mrs. Elsie Ellen Wells, wife of a 47…

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Court Rules. Comic Strip Not Obscene

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Mr. Thornton, S.M., in the Central Summons Court to-day dismissed the prosecution launched by…

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