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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Committed for Trial on Four Stealing Charges

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 1

Allan Leslie Walters (20), an itinerant rural worker from Tasmania, was committed for tried at the Grafton Quarter…

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Police Action Sought on Vandalism

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 3

Grafton police will be asked by Grafton City Council to take steps to put down vandalism within the city, following incidents which have occurred in the Memorial…

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Coronation Route Check By Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.--Scotland Yard has begun seat-by-seat check on occupants of all stands along the…

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Police Appeal for Full Cooperation During Show

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 5

Sergt. 1st Class T. A. Schuback, officer in charge of the Grafton Police Sub-district, yesterday appealed…

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Police Well Organised

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 5

As has been the case in former years, Grafton police this year under the watchful eye of Sergt 1st…

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Christie On 4 Charges Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. -- John Reginald Christie, 55-years-old clerk charged with the Notting Hill mass…

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Court's Finding On Missing Freighter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A Court of Marine Inquiry to-day found that the 437 tons freighter Awahou, had foundered 60 miles west of Lord Howe Island on September 10, last year…

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Theft of £986 Payroll

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- Police are keeping a close watch on all roads leading from Mildura to-night for…

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"Maximum Penalty Not Sufficient" Says Magistrate

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 10

"In my opinion the maximum penalty is not sufficient to mo[?]t the crime," said Mr. A. E. Capp, SM. when fining Gregory…

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Bolted And Barred Against Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.--A luxuriously furnished baccarat school in Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, was boiled and barred against a police raid, Centre Court, was told to-day…

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Clue in Stocking Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. -- London detectives have obtained an important clue in the nylon stocking murder case…

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Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.--John Haskayne (39), hotel porter, was charged at Marylebone Court to-day with the…

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Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN.--The regular Court of Petty Sessions will be held at Maclean on Wednesday, but the list is…

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Did Net Believe Police Evidence

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.--Police had given "absolutely capricious and unreal" evidence at a Quarter Sessions…

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Good Memory Leads to Court Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 4

THE memory of a Grafton constable led to the appearance in the Grafton Court yesterday of a man…

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Twins Left With Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 2

Dozens of childless couples phoned the Scarba Welfare Home yesterday seeking to a opt these three-months-old twin boys being held by Nurse Shirely Swain, The bables, well noursihed but s poorly-clad. were taken by a women…

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Man And Woman Before Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 6

A man and a woman were each fined £4 when they appeared before Mr. P. D. Davenport, J.P., at Grafton…

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Police Alerted

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 2

Grafton and other North Coast police stations were alerted last night following the escape of an habitual…

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For Trial on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. -- In the Central Court to-day, Maurice Joseph Napier, as committed for trial on a charge…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 6

COFFS HARBOUR. Wed. --In the Small Debts Court, Coffs Harbour, Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., gave a verdict…

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