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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Japanese Court Convicts Australian

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1951 · page 3

TOKIO, Friday (A. A. P.-Reuter). -- Kenneth William Gibbons, first Australian to be tried by a Japanese court since the war, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment-- suspended for three…

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Assault Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 4

A further adjournment was granted at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday in proceedings by Irene Heaney, cook,…

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Death Sentence For Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon. -- John Kevin Seach (26), quarry worker, who was convicted of the murder of a…

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Charged With Killing Natives

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1951 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, Tues. (A.A.P. Reuter). -- Japanese killed natives of the Dutch East Indies in 1945 by injecting them with…

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Liquor Theft From Store Room

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1951 · page 4

Grafton police are investigating a theft which took place at a storeroom in Kemp street, Grafton, utilised by Tooth and…

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High Court Chief Justice To Retire

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1951 · page 1

His honour will begin a period of 12 months leave on that date and will then retire from the position of Chief Justice…

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Death Sentence For Criminal Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.-- Found guilty of having criminally assaulted a four -year -old Polish girl at Bathurst migrant camp on…

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Murder Trial In Sign Language

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wed. (AAP).-- A bizarre murder trial, in which the principal figures spoke in deaf and dumb sign language,…

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Clean Up by London Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Wed. (AAP).-- Police have begun a determined move to clean up the West End in preparation for the festival…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 3

William Harry Davey, appeared before Mr. A. E. Capp, SM, in the Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions, charged with…

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Potato Marketing Board Court Action

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 1

Owing to lengthy proceedings and no verdict being given by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at the last Dorrigo Court of Petty Sessions, the cases,…

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Charged With Murder Of Wife

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--A woman broke down and sobbed when asked in the City Court to-day if marriage…

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Gaol for Editor

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 3

BUENOS AIRES, Thursday. (AAP).--A congressional committee investigating the independent newspaper La Prensa,…

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Charged With Killing

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Detectives to-day charged a 28-year-eld man with manslaughter, following, the death last night of Mrs…

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Gaol Terms Total 300 Years

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK. Thurs. (A.A.P.)--A man captured in Mexico recently after one of the greatest mahhunts in American…

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War Crimes Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, Thursday (AAP-Reuter).--The Japanese had used natives in fatal experiments with tetanus…

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Appeal Dismissed By Full Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The State Full Court today dismissed a Bowral man's Appeal against a £12,000 award to an English couple. A SUPREME Court jury last…

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Youth Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Sunday.-- The body of a 49 -year -old grazier was found with two bullet wounds in the chest at his home…

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Army Police Were "Finest Ambassadors"

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 March 1951 · page 1

Australia's military policemen are praised by Melbourne author Allan Clifton in his controversial book on Japan,…

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Comic Court Still Clear Favourite

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 March 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sun.-- Comic Court is still a clear favourite for the Sydney Cup, despite his defeat in the Autumn Stakes…

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