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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 37

Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1953 · page 6

An application by Leslie Edmund Burke for the transfer of the license of the Pest Office Hotel, South…

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War Prisoner In Court; No Means Of Support

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1953 · page 4

A WAR prisoner of the Japanese for 26 months who hitch-hiked [?] graft on from Coffs Harbour…

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New Australian Aided Police MELBOURNE, Tuesday--

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 3

Charges against a Sunbury Mental Home patient who assaulted two policemen in the City last night, were…

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Police Say Husband Electrified Door Lock

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday--Police alleged to-day, that a man had electrified a back door lock of his home to give his wife a shock. This evidence was given…

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Gaol Term Substituted For Fine

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--A fine of £500 stg. imposed on a Sutton coalfield business man for stealing half a…

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Charged With Attempt To Kill

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 3

ROCKHAMPTON, Wednesday. -- A woman had told a detective-sergeant that she knew she would have to Rill the Mayor of Rockhampton "sooner or later"…

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Dramatic Last Minute Moves In Murder Case

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--Two dramatic last minute moves were made last night in the linked cases of Timothy Evans, illiterate Welsh lorry driver hanged three years ago, and mass-murderer, John…

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Men Before Court On Note Theft

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 4

A sequel to the interrogation at Grafton on Wednesday of four men of foreign extraction and the…

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Charged with Wounding Man

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 3

BOOROWA, Thurs. -- A young man had been shot through the neck by a railway detective after an hotel…

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Police to Help Ambulance

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 2

Coffs Harbour Police have joined forces with the Coffs Harbour Ambulance committee to raise funds for buying a new…

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Union Refused Court Order MELBOURNE, Thurs.--

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 1

The Amalgamated Engineering Union has been refused a High Court order aimed at stopping the Arbitration…

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Theft From Hotel Till

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1953 · page 5

Grafton police are investigating the theft of £3.0 from the till at the bar of Weiley's Hotel. Grafton…

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Month's Gaol For Contempt

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Former Fitzroy League footballer, Goldsmith Collins, was sentenced in the…

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Woman Convicted For Stealing Rings

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1953 · page 3

COFFS HARBOUR,-- Maxine Holten, 36, of Coffs Harbour, was fined £5 by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at the…

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Application To Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1953 · page 1

In the Supreme Court this afternoon a solicitor, Mr. H. Rich, made an urgent application to restrain…

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Court's Sympathy With Wife

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1953 · page 4

Sympathy with a former Grafton nurse, petitioner in a divorce suit at Grafton this week, was expressed by Mr. Justice Dovev at the Divorce Court yesterday, when granting her a decree nisi…

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Man Charged with Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 1

PERTH, Sun.--Mrs. Luba Maczurad (31) was fatally stabbed at a Victoria Park house last night…

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Woman Charged

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun. -- Detectives charged a woman with malicious wounding after, ambulance men found a 43…

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Gaol For Stealing Dollar Bills

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1953 · page 7

BRISBANE, Mon.-- Two Bulgarians and a YugoSlav were sentenced to three months' gaol to-day in the…

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Police View On Betting Coup

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Mon. -- Scotland Yard detectives be lieve a "ringer" may have used Bath race course last…

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