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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Stealing Charge Adjourned

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 1

A stealing charge against Eugene Rowland Morris, of Coffs darbour, wos part heard when the Court of Petty Sessions…

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Acquitted on Car Stealing Charge

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 7

A Grafton Quarter Sessions jury on Monday acquitted Len Clarence Collard Wood, 25, married, of Brisbane, formerly…

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Three Years' Gaol for Embezzlement

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 7

James Oliver Poulsen, 34. former assistant stationmaster at Sawtell, was sentenced to three years' gaol yesterday for…

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Police Say Exhaust Started Fire

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 October 1952 · page 2

MURWILLUMBAH,--Charged with having lit a fire during a bushfire danger period in January last,…

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Police Seek Driven Of Wrecked Car

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 October 1952 · page 2

LATE last night, Grafton police continued their inquiries for the driver of a 1937 Pontiac sedan car, which crashed through the railings on the Alumny Creek Bridge at…

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Major Assault By Chinese

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 1

SEOUL, Mon.--Between 6000 and 7000 Chinese Communist troops, backed by rockets and artillery fire, opened an all-out assault last night in a major effort to drive…

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Charged With Attempting Two Murders

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Police charged an engineer with attempting to murder two men following a shooting at…

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Charged With Giving False Evidence At Commission

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--In three Sydney Police Courts to-day, seven of eight men, who were indicted on Saturday on charges of having given false evidence at the Liquor…

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Industrial Court Fines

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 4

A total of £10 in fines was imposed by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., on Wallis Jack Spyer, a Pound street…

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"Ruthlessly Police" Bush Fire Act

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.--Fire patrol officers, who have cars, planned to form mobile patrols to cruise in danger areas during week-ends, the secretary of the N.S.W. Ranger Patrol,…

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Motor Premises Court Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 4

More evidence in the hearing of an application for ejectment of Lester Channel's, motor engineer,…

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Court-Martial For Boxer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--The British lightweight boxer, Ray Fitton, who was arrested by military police after…

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Court Appearance After Fight

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 4

A Saturday afternoon flight between two men in the rear yard of a Grafton hotel had a sequel at…

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Traffic Cases At Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 4

Several Grafton district cyclists were fined for traffic breaches at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M.,…

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Magistrate Reaffirms Possession Order

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 October 1952 · page 4

Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for the second time made an order…

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Gaol Sentence On Beer Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 3

TAREE.--A 32 years old railway signalman, who pleaded guilty to having goods in possession…

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Police Promotions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed. -- The Police Department to-day announced the names of 177 police officers who have…

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Police Vigilant

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

Police are watching the surf sheds at Evans Head following reports by surf club captain, Gordon…

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Woman Denies Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 3

BATHURST, Thurs.--Mrs. Ruby May Norton said in the Supreme Court to-day that she was innocent of a charge of murder. Mrs. Norton (50), of…

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First Degree Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1952 · page 1

BALTIMORE (Maryland) Frid.--George Edward Grammar, 35-year-old business man who battered his…

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