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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Arm Broken In Police Arrest

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 7

A Harwood Island farmer had an arm fractured while allegedly resisting arrest by police at Harwood Island…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 3

Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., reserved his decision in the Grafton Fair Rents Court yesterday on several…

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A Superb Detective. the Blind Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 2

Ernest Dudley, so well known to listeners as "The Armchair Detective," gave a talk in the BBC's General Overseas Service on Sir John Fielding, one…

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Magistrate Remarks On Bottled Beer Shortage In Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 3

The shortage of bottled beer in Grafton was commented on by Mr. S. J. Bliss, Licensing Magistrate, in the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday…

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Police Dogs Will Aid In Search For Man

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Two police dogs left Penrith training kennels to-day, to help in the search for the share farmer who disappeared from an open field at Jaunter, 30 miles from Oberon, on Sunday…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 2

MACLEAN.-- Mr. A. E.Capp, Licencing Magistrate in the Licencing Court, granted an extension of…

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Drunk And Resisted Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 3

MACLEAN, Wed.-- At Maclean Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., Francis B. Ryan, 46,…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 November 1952 · page 3

MACLEAN.--In the case Lindsay Davis v. Lionel D. Eggins at Maclean Small Debts Court an adjournment…

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Police Warning

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 1

Dorrigo's Chief of Police, Sgt. F. Dowell, has brought to our attention the fact that irresponsible persons are causing…

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Three For Trial On Bullion Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 1

PERTH, Thurs.--Three men, charged wild theft of £14,000 worth of gold bullion from Kalgoorlie…

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Insanity Defence To Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.--A South Coast postmaster, who, the Crown alleged, had strangled his wife, told the police that "she begged and prayed to her dying breath for…

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Murder And Suicide, Coroner Finds

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--A police constable had murdered his wife and child, and then committed suicide,…

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Tennis Court Ton-Dressed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 November 1952 · page 2

MACLEAN, Friday. — One of the town tennis courts at Maclean has been top-dressed with material…

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Fast Work In Divorce Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Mr. Justice Toose, in the Divorce Court to-day shortened a woman's time of decree…

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Police Recapture Two Convicts

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Two convicts who escaped from French Island on a home-made raft last night were recaptured this morning after a five mile cross-country chase by police on foot and in…

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Police Follow Trail Of Blood

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun. — Two policemen to-day followed a trail of blood for two miles from the body of a…

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Industrial Court At Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 4

MACLEAN, Sat. — Two informations laid against John McDonald, of "Craig- more,'' Yamba, were dealt…

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Braren Theft Tram Parked Car

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 1

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Gaol For Trying To Buy Food

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 4

LONDON, Mon. -- Six West Berliners have been gaoled for from two to 12 months for trying to buy…

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Court Issues Writ Of Prohibition

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 December 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--An interim writ of prohibition, restraining the Greyhound Racing Control Board from…

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