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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Escapees Captured By Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues.--Two men who escaped from a prison working party near Berrima yesterday were…

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Postal Assistant In Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 4

MACLEAN, Tues.--At Maclean Police Court today, Dasey, a postal assistant, appeared on charges…

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Police Find Money Stolen From Gun Runners

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 November 1952 · page 1

FORT WORTH (Texas), Wed.—Police have recovered more than half the £111,000 stolen from two Cuban gun…

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Remanded on Stealing Charge

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 8

Leonard James Sawtell of Mullumbimby, appeared at the Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions on Friday charged with stealing…

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Type We Want, But Six Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A Fijian charged as a prohibited immigrant, was described by Special Court Magistrate…

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Aborigines in Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 7

Sever, aborigines three of them females appeared at the Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions over the weekend on…

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Child Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--An eight-years-old boy was accused in the Isle of Wight juvenile court yesterday, of…

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Woman Acquitted Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1952 · page 3

PARIS, Fri.--Yvonne Chevallier, 41-years-old brunette, was acquitted yesterday after a dramatic…

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Police Action Against Journal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--Police have issued summonses against the owner and publisher and printers of the…

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Question Of Law Referred To Full High Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--A question of law in an action against the Commonwealth Government was referred to…

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Police Fire On Rioting Africans

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 1

KIMEERLEY (South Africa), Sun. -- Fourteen Africans were killed and 39 injured when a…

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Show Of Force By Armed Police Racial Riots In S.Africa

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 November 1952 · page 1

KIMBERLEY, Monday.—Three hundred armed police made a show of force in Kimberley's two African areas yesterday after disturbances in which 13 Africans, including two women, were shot dead by police and 35 injured…

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Calves Killed, Youth Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 4

LISMORE, Tuesday. -- Twenty-one calves were battered to death in a holding paddock at Casino…

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Gaol For Illicit Possession Of Gold

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 1

PERTH, Sun.--Three bars of gold worth £1000 were found by detectives in the pockets of Tan Heng-Ngee,…

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Thanks To Police Force

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 3

The Jacaranda. Festival Committee will write thanking Inspector W. L. Jeffersen, of Grafton Police, and…

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Domestic In Court On Four Charges

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 4

Stella Maria Onions, 34,domestic, of 133 Fry street, Grafton, appeared in the Grafton Court yesterday to…

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Car Smash Leads To 2½ Years Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—Irwin Arthur Westbury McDonald, 37, of Chiswick street, Enfield, was convicted of three charges arising out of a car smash to–day, and sentenced to two and a half years’ gaol by Judge…

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Extradition Sought For Murder Trial

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—Extradition of a man, now held in Sydney, to face a murder charge over the shooting of…

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Man Charged With South port Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A 42-year-old. plumber was to-day charged with having murdered Athol Henry McCowan, taxi-driver, at Southport, Queensland, on May 22 this…

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Six Month's Sentence of Stealing Charge

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 10

In seems to are you are on the [?] for prison sentences for the rest of your life said Mr. A E. Copp, S.M, when…

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