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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

755 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 38

Returned To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--A 15½ years old girl, whose detention at Pentridge gaol recently led to widespread…

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Extensive Search For Murder Clue

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--Police are questioning the occupants of every home in the Wilston district in their…

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Appeals Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 4

Appeals against Grafton City Council assessments on urban farm land were mentioned before the City of…

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Acting Deputy Police Chief

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Superintendant W. R. Lawrence to-day took up duties at Police Headquarters as…

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Tennis Court Hire Fees Increased

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 8

At last Tuesday night's meeting if the Coffs Harbour Tennis Club it was disclosed night hiring fees barely paid court costs, and it…

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Naval Ratings Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Following the finding of the badly battered body of a 42-years-old traveller in a lonely part of the…

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Police Shooting Practices

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 4

MACLEAN, Thurs.--At the Lismore police shooting practices, Inspector J. Forsyth top-scored with…

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Appeals Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 7

The sittings of the City of Grafton Appeals Court scheduled for Grafton yesterday was postponed until…

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Baby Sitter Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Fri. Police investigating the slaying of three young children belonging to one family have…

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Suicide In Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri. Frederick Thomas Carpenter (63), awaiting trial on a charge of having murdered…

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The Storekeeper Preferred Long Bay Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1952 · page 6

A Parramatta milk bar owner and storekeeper is in Long Bay gaol for eight days because he would not pay a £210 fine…

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Stokers on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri. Two stokers from H.M.A.S. Burdekin, one from Preston (Vic.), and the other from…

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Bad Language In Police Cell

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1952 · page 4

A 49-years-old labourer was fined £6, in default 12 days' hard labour in the Grafton Court of Petty…

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Death In Mills Puzzles Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Police are puzzled by the death of a 50 years old nightwatchman, found dead in the…

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Bond for Stealing Charge

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 6

Ethel Mary Green was given i bond of £10 to be of good behaviour for 12 months when she pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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Sentenced for Assaulting a Female

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 6

At the Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, Mervyn Dodds, alias Slockie, was sentenced to 14 days hard labour when he…

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Death Sentence For Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Twenty-five years old log cutter Thomas George Bonham, of Gilgandra, was sentenced to death to-day for the murder of his two-year-old daughter…

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Four Men Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 2

Four men, members of the crew of the steamer Matthew Flinders were arrested at Coffs Harbour…

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Policeman Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed. A young married policeman had taken her up a lane and, after threatening her…

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