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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Candy Walks Off Court In Protest

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.--Australian Don Candy walked off the court to allow American Ham Richardson to…

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Sawtell Railway Official Charged

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 1

James Oliver Poulsen, of Sawtell, was remanded on a charge of embezzling £2400/5/3 from the N.S.W. Commissioner for…

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Admits May Have Been Police Laxity

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--A former superintendent of the C.I.B. admitted at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day there "may have been some laxity" in police control of illegal liquor traffic over recent years. He is Norman Devine…

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Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 1

VIENNA, Tues.-- Two young Czechs, charged with spying for the Vatican, were sentenced to death…

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Assault Case Adjourned

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 4

A case in which a Lawrence man prosecuted his brother-in-law, also of Lawrence, was adjourned in the…

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Not Intended To Involve Police Officer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--It was never intended that evidence of a police "tip-off'' of raids on a nightclub…

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Court Grants Possession To Owner

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 4

An owner who had taken out the tenancy of alternative accommodation for his [?] for one month was…

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Nightclub Owner On Murder Trial

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A jealous night club owner kicked in the door of his former girl friend's flat and…

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South Korean Court-Martial

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

PUSAN, Wed.--A South Korean Government spokesman said to-day that 11 National Assemblymen…

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Speculator's Gaol Break

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A speculator who became indebted for £1,330,200 through selling post-war…

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Committed For Murder Trial

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mrs. Yvonne Gladys Fletcher, 32, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of murdering her husband, Bertram Henry Fletcher, 27, by the City Coroner (Mr…

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Police Pressure Is Mounting

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1952 · page 1

PUSAN (Korea), Thurs.--Opponents of President Syngman Rhee. complaining that police pressure is…

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Need More Men To Police Clubs

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Superintendent Henry Boswell, in charge of Dubbo Police District, said to-day that the Police Force would have to be increased considerably if…

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Four Years Gaol For Assault

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1952 · page 1

MAITLAND, Friday.--A soldier alleged to have jabbed a broken bottle into another man's face permanently disfiguring him, was…

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Man Charged With Broken Hill Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Detectives to-day charged a man with the murder of a 17 years old girl at Broken…

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Carpenter Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 5

Ernest Herbert Haines, 32. carpenter, of Clarence street, Grafton, appeared at Grafton Court of Petty…

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Charged With Rape

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

BROKEN HILL, Mon.-- A 21 years old man was arrested to-day and charged with having raped a 15…

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Men For Trial On Petrol Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 4

Two Grafton men were committed for trial yesterday on a charge of breaking and entering a Grafton fuel…

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No Chance Of Concerted Gaol Break

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 2

Special precautions at Grafton Gaol prevented any possibility of prisoners making a general break-out…

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Acquitted Of Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.--A Central Criminal Court jury to-day acquitted a 30-years-old woman of having…

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