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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Young Soldier Charged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--A young soldier appeared in Central Court to-day on charges of assaulting a woman with…

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Court Ruling On Marriage

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A tram driver and a conductress were already validly married by the time the…

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Gaol For Rioters

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 1

CASABLANCA, Sunday.--The Court of Pasha, a Moroccan court, yesterday, gaoled 122 minor offenders for…

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Payroll Theft From Camp

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--Detectives are investigating an £800 payroll theft from Ingleburn army camp. The money was taken from a steel…

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Smart Arrests by Coffs Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 3

COFFS HARBOUR, Sun.--Several smart arrests by police officers at Coffs Harbour had their sequel at…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon. -- A Fitzroy labourer told a Criminal Court jury to-day that after they had…

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Police Recover Stolen Bicycle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 8

A sequence of bicycle [?] [?] Warwick Old was ended when Henry [?]…

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Diver Fails In Court Action Bid

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 6

An application by a marine diver before the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, Sydney, for an extension of time for the institution of legal proceedings against the…

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Fortunate Not Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 December 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Judge in Bankruptcy, Mr. Justice Clyne, to-day told Eric McConnell, former private secretary to John Woolcott Forbes, that he was very fortunate…

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Rebuke For Some Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues. — Police who are discourteous to the public, and officers who do not address their men…

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Police Allege Men Broke Into Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Two men who were arrested when they allegedly broke into Pentridge Gaol during the night were remanded until December 24 in the City Court, this morning…

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Woman Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--A man struck on the head with a hammer by his de facto wife was likely to die,…

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Gaol For Kikuyus

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 1

MOMBASA, Wed.--Sixteen Kikuyus, two of them women, were sentenced to gaol terms ranging from one…

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Counsel And Judge Clash In Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--"I will take no impudence from you," Mr. Justice McClemens told Crown Prosecutor Mr. W. R. Dovey, Q.C., during the trial of Abraham Gilbert Saffron,…

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Former Soldier On Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 December 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Frid. -- Police to-night charged a former soldier with stealing £800 from a safe at Ingleburn…

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Murder Case Re-opened

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 December 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.--The New York Crime Commission yesterday reopened the case of Peter Panto, a…

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£950 Theft From Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Thieves to-day stole £950 in cash and jewellery from a Petersham hotel…

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Gaol Release Ordered

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon. -- Mr. Justice Taylor, in High s Court chambers to-day, ordered the release from gaol…

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Aborigine Women Charged

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 2

Three aborigine women June Buchanan (20), Madeline Bugg (21) and Maxine Holter (29), appeared at the Court of Petty…

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Army Payroll Theft Alleged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Two men, who police allege used a duplicate key to rob a safe at Ingleburn camp…

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