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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Woolgoolga Mile Vendor Charged

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 November 1951 · page 8

Jack Angus Anderson, a milk vendor of Woolgolga, appeared before Mr. A. E. Capp, SM. in the Coffs Harbour Court of…

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Clergyman's Son Sent to Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--At the Quarter Sessions to-day, the son of a clergyman was setenced to two years' gaol…

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Murder Sentence Appeal Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--The Full Court of Criminal Appeal to-day unanimously dismissed appeals by three men…

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Used Licensee's Keys For Hotel Theft

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 2

Cash and cheques totalling about £290 were stolen from the Great Northern Hotel, South Grafton, on Saturday night or early yesterday morning by an intruder who secured keys to the office and bar from the licensee's…

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Scaled 20ft Wall In Gaol Break

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.--In one of the most sensational breaks in the history of Pentridge Gaol, Maxwell Karl Skinner (23) scaled the 20ft. wall of the remand section in full view of armed warders this afternoon and…

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Police Clash With Patrol

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 1

London, sun. (A.A.P.).--Three Egyptian police had been seriously hurt when a patrol Of the…

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Police Have No Doubt Murder Weapon Used In Suicide

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday--Police have no doubt the gun with which 17-years-old army trainee, Harold Lionel Merriman Dyson, committed suicide at Hurstville to-day, was the one used to…

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Police Allow Stock To Graze Along Roads

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1951 · page 2

Clarence, River police have been, instructed to allow stock to graze along main roads, under…

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Detectives Theory On Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--C.I.B. detectives claimed today they had established, beyond all doubt, that a…

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Police Say Woman Might Die

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Central Court was told to-day a woman might die from injuries she received…

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Murder Suspected

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 1

PERTH, Wed.--Police believe that a 19 years-old youth found lying in school grounds at Quairading…

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Gaol Escape by Women

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 1

HOBART. Wed.--Two women prisoners made a daring escape from Hobart gaol to-night…

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Illegally Buried Body; Two Years Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--A former policeman, who fatally shot his father, was sentenced to two years' gaol at the…

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Charges of Stealing Copper Wire From P.m.g

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 3

A P.M.G. Divisional Engineer and three linesmen from Lismore, and a carrier from Sydney, appeare d before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on stealing charges involving about 37 tons of copper we valued in the aggregate at…

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Found Not Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--In the Criminal Court to-day Charles Henry Mills (29) was found not guilty of the…

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Gaol Escapees Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday--Six prisoners who escaped from Bathurst gaol on September 24, after assaulting the warders, were each sentenced to five years' penal servitude in the…

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Court To Check Maltreatment Story

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sun. (AAP).--A Court of Inquiry has teen ordered to check allegations that an…

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Charged With Wounding

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--A man had fired on two men who came to his home because he feared for his life, the…

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Crown Claim In Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY. Mon.--The Crown Prosecutor, Mr Reoney, claimed in Central Court to-day that the…

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Court Appearance Followed Jump Into Baths

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 4

Kevin Raymond Williams, who said he had a droving outfit and was working at Koolkhan, was fined a total…

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