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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Big Promotion, Transfer List For Qld. Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.-- The largest list of promotions and transfers on record in the Queensland Police…

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Soldier On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A 23-year-old soldier was remanded at Central Court to-day on a charge of murder. He was Gilbert Ryan, of Ingleburn military camp…

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Money Missing From Police Headquarters

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Tues. -- Mystery surrounds the disappearance of £1200 in cash from a safe at police…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 6

MACLEAN,--In an application for determination of rent of premises at Yamba owned by Mrs. D. Ellis, Mr…

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Police Transfer Delayed Until Conference

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.--Transfer of nine C.I.B. detectives to uniform duly has been delayed until after a conference to-morrow between…

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Four Years in Gaol for Armed Assault

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 6

A 19-year-old coloured defendant named Benjamin Paul Blake was sentenced by His Honour Judge P. V. Storkey, V.C., at the Kempsey Quarter Sessions on June 6 to four years imprisonment on a charge…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 7

MACLEAN.--At a sitting of the Licensing Court at Maclean, Mr. A .E. Capp, S.M., renewed the…

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Farmer Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri. Police to-day charged a farmer with the murder of a 26-years-old labourer who was…

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Frenchwoman's Part In Burglary

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 1

CARSON CITY (Nevada) Sun.-- A French divorcee was convicted here on charges that she took part in the burglary of £869,600 from…

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Police Liberate Korean Assembly

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 1

PUSAN, Sun.--National police last night liberated 80 members of the South Korean National Assembly who had been prevented by a howling mob from leaving the Chamber for more than five hours…

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Police Find Body in Culvert

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--The body of a murdered taxidriver was found in a culvert at Church Point, 17 miles north of Sydney, to-day…

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Year's Gaol For Aborigine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 5

An aborigine, Mitchell Leonard Whaddy, 26, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by Judge…

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Grafton Men For Year's Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 5

Two Grafton men were sentenced to 12 months gaol by Judge Storkey, V.C., at Grafton Quarter Sessions…

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Gaol Sentence on Youths Upheld

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 3

Dismissing an appeal against a gaol sentence for illegally using motor cars. Judge Storkey, V.C., said at…

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Witness Not Called in Woolgoolga Assault Charges

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 6

An independent witness, Mr. W., Richards, whose evidence could have decided the issue in either party's favour, was…

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Court Refuses Renew Licence

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--Walter Cavill Pty. Ltd., of Sussex street, was to-day refused the renewal of a wine and spirit merchant's licence by the Full Bench of the Licensing Court…

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Court Ruling On Applications

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--The Licensing Court to-day refused to renew the liquor licence of a hotelkeeper, a…

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Shooting Of Taxi Driver Police Discover Vital Clues

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Criminal Investigation Branch detectives said to-night they had discovered vital clues in their investigations into the shooting of Sydney taxidriver, Joseph Edward Fisher, and…

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Police Commissioner Reverses Decision

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tues.--Decision to transfer eight detectives to uniform duty wa[?] reversed to-day by the…

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Police Told Of Third Bashing

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Inquiries into the murder of William Corbett have been extended to ships on the Sydney waterfront following a report to-day of another taxidriver bashing…

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