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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 21 of 37

Seixas Wins Clay Court Title

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1953 · page 6

CHICAGO, Monday. -- Wimbledon champion, Vic Seixas yesterday won the final of the National clay…

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Man Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues. -- A 31-years-old man has been arrested and charged with assault and committing an…

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Gaol For ''Shocking Exhibition"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Detective Tom Mitchell, of Newtown, said to-day that a young woman had suffered…

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Sisters Charged With Shoplfllng

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--A 20-years-old mother of three children and her 18-years- old sister were charged, in…

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Man And Woman Charged With Conspiracy

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 July 1953 · page 3

PORTLAND, Tuesday.-- A man, charged with conspiracy, had said he had been very worried ever since a court awarded a £20,000 verdict, following a car accident,…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 July 1953 · page 7

Rent of premises at 16 Ridge street, South Grafton, was increased from £110 to £276 a week in the…

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Gaol For Robbing Taxi Drivers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--A 22-years-old English migrant was sent to gaol for five years to-day, in the…

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Police Theory On Disappearance

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. -- Detectives working on the disappearance of Father Henry Borynski, a Polish priest…

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Good Work by Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 3

As in former years members of the Grafton police, with the assistance of those from district centres,…

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Seamen Charged With Drunkenness

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 1

Henning Olsenn (24) and Anton Sorgaus (42), seamen off the mv Basra which is at present in port, were charged with…

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Police Raids Recover Money

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Secret dawn raids by police in northern and southern suburbs this week, following the discovery of a jar of notes in a Moonee Ponds…

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Threat to "Do Over" Says Witness in Assault Case

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 9

Keith Allen, sawmill employee, of Woolgoolga, told Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M. he heard defendant threaten to "do the informant…

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Before Court In Order "To Raise Cry"

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs. -- The Amalgamated Engineering Union ballot case seemed to have been brought…

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Charged With Theft Of £33,593

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 July 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.-- A labourer, aged 33, was charged at the City Watchhouse late to-day with…

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Said He Would Rather Go To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--A funeral parlor director said today he would rather go to gaol than pay a £30 court…

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Mystery Woman Phones Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday--A mystery woman has twice phoned a Sydney doctor in the past 24 hours and repeated that she knows who| poisoned international Rugby League…

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Audacious Hotel Theft Foiled

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 2

The wife of a Grafton hotelkeeper foiled an audacious theft from the hotel yard on Saturday morning…

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Shots Fired At Police

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Several shots were fired at policemen who were culled to a milk bar in…

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Police Seek Man Who Shot Migrant

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday--Police are scouring Victoria for two men, one of whom shot deed a Greek migrant an cold blood at Wallam yesterday, and drove off in a car…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 6

Determinations for four properties were fixed in the Grafton Fair Rents Court yesterday by Mr. A. E. Capp,…

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