"Regulars" on Week-end Court List
Two hardy "regulars" from Coffs Harbour's coloured population again appeared on the Court of Petty Sessions lists at the…
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Courts & crime, 1953
731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 37
Court Told: Thought 'Cagey' When No Answer
LISMORE, Thursday.--A woman who allegedly hit a man with an axe while he was sleeping thought he was "being cagey" by not answering her, according to evidence by…
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LONDON, Fri.--A 22 years old labourer, Alfred Charles Whiteway, was charged at Richmond,…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--A 35-years-old woman and two men were charged in Brisbane Police Court to-day, with the murder of the woman's husband a New South…
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MONROE, Fri.--A prisoner was shot and killed and two others badly wounded, when they rushed the walls…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--A 50 years old T.B. sufferer was to-day sentenced to five years' gaol for indecent…
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CANBERRA, Friday.--Some wholesale-retailers in Australia were charging excessive sales tax on their goods under the cover of "a surcharge" the Commissioner of Taxation, Mr. McGovern, said to-day…
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ADELAIDE, Fri.--John Balaban, now in the condemned cell at Adelaide gaol, this week completed a…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.--Mrs. H Jessie Robinson, about 70, of Barcelona street. Box Hill, died shortly after…
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A 19-years-old domestic, of no fixed place of abede, was sentenced to three months' hard labour…
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MELBOURNE, Monday-- Clarence Edward Richings (43), farmer, of Garden srteet, Kilsyth, was…
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R. C. B. Louden, of Grafton, was yesterday granted the license of the Rest Point Hotel,…
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TAMWORTH, Tues. -- In the Court of Petty Sessions here yesterday, a 58 years old labourer, who had…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.--John Balaban, 29-years-old Rumanian industrial chemist, was hanged in the Adelaide…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.—The woman licensee of a Benalla hotel and a local accountant to-day ended their seven…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--A Criminal Court jury late to-night found Jean Frances Jennings guilty of…
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Reginald Piebald was placed on a bond when he pleaded guilty to a charge of offensive behaviour at the Court of Petty…
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LONDON, Fri.—Scotland Yard is seeking to establish how £10,000 stg. vanished from sealed bags in transit…
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KATOOMBA, Fri.--Mrs. Caroline Grills (63), was to-day committed for trial by the Blue Mountains…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—A man who alleged that police had forced him to sign confessions of robberies, for…
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