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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Leave Liquor Alone, Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 5

"If two beers produces the effect on the defendant as described by the constable, then it behoves defendant…

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Charged Dismissed In Traffic Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 5

A charge against a Forestry Department employee of failure to give way to a vehicle on his right at an intersection was dismissed by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court…

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£950 Hotel Theft From Former Clarence Men

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 2

MACLEAN, Mon. -- The £950 theft from a Sydney hotel on Sunday was from the premises of a…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 6

BRISBANE, Monday. --— Arthur Ernest Halliday, 42, plumber, was to-day committed for trial on…

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Police Unable Find Motive

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 7

LAUNCESTON, Monday. -- Police have so far found no motive for the poisoning yesterday of leading…

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Seasonal Greetings At Grafton Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 3

When business was disposed of at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, the final sitting for…

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Police Search For Killer

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Detectives are still searching for the killer of 21 years old Shirley Butler, whose battered and strangled body was found about 75 yards from her…

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Woman Battered to Death; Man Charged

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Police to-day discovered the body of an 86 years old woman battered and strangled to…

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Police Seek Bashers

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday--A large squad of detectives is searching for two men who brutally bashed a woman…

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Spreading Out Police Staff

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sun.--The Police Department has begun to reorganise police station staffs throughout…

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Conflict With Court Officials

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.--The Sunday newspaper, "The People," said, to-day that the public should be made…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon. -- A 42-years-old watchman was charged in Central Court to-day with the murder of…

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Developments In City Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday Detectives to-day announced important developments in the murder of Shirley Butler, 21, at Waverton on Christmas Day. The issuing of a des…

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Traffic Pleases Police Inspector

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 2

WITH the exception of two serious accidents one at Woolgoolga and the other at Coffs Harbour,…

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Suicide Attempt In Gaol Cell

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 December 1952 · page 1

KEMPSEY, Tuesday. -- 28-years-old aborigine, Tasman Dotti, held by Kempsey police on charges of assault…

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The Murder Of Mad Jack

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 December 1952 · page 2

I am probably the only man alive who can give any personal information about the murder of Mad Jack, the hatter-beachcomber…

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