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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 37

Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed.--A 34-years-old one-armed fisherman, Gordon Albert Richardson, of Redbank, on…

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Police Search Intensified

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 3

WAUCHOPE, Wed.--An intensified search by police and civilian volunteers today in the Wauchope…

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Police Report On Doping

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Detectives reported to-day that their inquiries into the doping of Tarien, Winged…

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Court Declares Bill Valid

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--The Victorian Labour Government's two-for-one Electoral Reform Bill was…

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Court Order On Wages Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--An order was granted in High Court chambers to-day, calling on the Arbitration Court to show cause before the Full High Court next…

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Everest Assault May Be Complete

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 May 1953 · page 1

KATMANDU (Nepal), Fri.--The British Mount Everest expedition may already have completed its…

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Theft Of £500 From Bookmaker

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 May 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Police are investigating the theft of £500 from a bookmaker yesterday afternoon…

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Police Search Ends; Man Surrenders

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 May 1953 · page 2

WAUCHOPE, Sun. -- The six-day police search in the Wauchope district for an armed half-caste…

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Native Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 1

RABAUL, Mon.--A native schoolteacher was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having assaulted…

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Remanded On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 3

WAUCHOPE, Monday.--The Wauchope courtroom was crowded to-day, when a half-caste aborigine,…

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Criticism Of Canberra Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon.--The chairman of the A.C.T. Advisory Council, Mr. A. T. Shakespeare to-day…

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Five Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 May 1953 · page 1

MAITLAND, Wed.--At Maitland Circuit Court Mr. Justice Le Gay Brereton sentenced a 19-years-old…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 May 1953 · page 3

MACLEAN, Wed.--At Maclean Licensing Court the transfer of the license of the Maclean Hotel from…

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Police Turn Back Many Criminals

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 May 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.--Between 30 and 40 international criminals, who travelled to Britain in the past few…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN, Wed.--After a hearing at two sittings of the Small Debts Court at Maclean, lasting…

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Record Bookings For Police Ball

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 2

Members of the Police Ball Committee were informed by the secretary, Mr. K Moore, at the…

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Tennis Work Progressing on New Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 10

Work is progressing on the new court being constructed by Cods Harbour Tennis Club. Owen [?] has…

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Six Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--A gas meter reader, who pleaded guilty to 25 robberies from homes while working at his…

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Gaol For Bigamy And Perjury

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 May 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A former Royal Navy rating found guilty by a Criminal Court jury to-day of…

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Ordered To Produce Prisoner In Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 May 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. Acting Justice Myers to-day made an order directing the Comptroller General of Prisons to produce Richard Basil Scudds in the Equity Court on…

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