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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Crowded Court Hears Decision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--The crowded court sat quietly and heard the seven Judges of the Full High Court give their findings in the challenge to the Anti-Red…

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Court Holds Anti-Red Bill Invalid Challenge Upheld by Majority Decision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--The Full High Court held to-day that the Communist Party Dissolution Act was wholly invalid. The Court upheld a challenge by the Communist Party and 10 Unions to the…

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Three Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Alleged to have attacked a 73-year-old. pensioner who had befriended them and given shelter in his…

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Grafton Masseur Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 4

A Grafton physiotherapist and masseur, John Frank Hamon (51), married, pleaded not guilty at Grafton Quarter…

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Lord Mayor in Court Clash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Lord Mayor (Ald. O'Dea), in the role of union advocate before the Industrial Commission…

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Year's Gaol for Burglary

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 5

William Thomas Carroll, 26, single, of Oliver street, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by Judge Storkey,…

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Italians Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 1

ROME, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Four Italians, including a former major in the Italian Army appeared before a closed…

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Father Sentenced To Four Years

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 4

Judge Storkey. V.C., at Grafton Quarter Sessions, yesterday, sentenced a Kangaroo Creek dairy farmer to four years' hard…

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Teenagers Guilty of Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Two teenage girls and a youth were found guilty at Central Criminal Court to-day of the…

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Father Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.-Kevin James Miller (32) went on trial in the Criminal Court today charged with the murder…

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Fined For Stealing From Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 6

GLENREAGH.-Two men appeared before Coramba Court, on Monday to answer to a charge of stealing corn from…

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Soldier Sentenced; Girl's Skull Fractured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.- A soldier who had fractured a girl's skull with an electric iron, was sentenced in the Central Criminal…

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Students Suspected Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed. (AAP).- Two students at Rutherfordton. in North Carolina, are alleged to have murdered the…

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Police Allege Admissions By Father

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Kevin James Miller (32) had admitted killing his two children, Senior Detective Mooney…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 9

In the Coffs Harbour Court of Jetty Sessions on March 12, John Clavin, aged 66, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. He…

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Fit For Clash With Comic Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Grey Boots' attractive trial to-day indicated he is fit for his clash with Comic Court in the Chipping Norton Stakes, at Randwick,…

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Payroll Theft

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY. Fri.-- A night foreman early to-day discovered the theft of a factory payroll of between £350 and £400…

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Uni. Students Charged With Manslaughter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1951 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Fri.-- Following the death of an Adelaide University student in a ducking "rag" on the River…

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Police Seeking Missing Cattle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1951 · page 3

Grafton police are conducting an investigation into the disappearance from the Junction Hill area of four head of…

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Police To Attend Convention

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1951 · page 4

BELLINGEN.-- The officer-in-charge of the police wireless section of Sydney will address the convention of the Wireless…

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