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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 37

Traffic Breaches At Maclean Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 August 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN, Fri.--Before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Maclean Court of Petty Sessions, Francis H. Jones, of…

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Collision Case In Court "Inevitable Accident"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 August 1953 · page 5

COFFS HARBOUR.--In the Small Debts Court, after hearing evidence in an action for damages by Frederick…

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Release From Prison Ordered By Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 August 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.--The High Court to-day, ordered the immediate release from prison, of a bankrupt Brisbane tobacco merchant, who was gaoled last December for…

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Charged £640, Worth £230

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.-- Fines totalling £230 were imposed in the Special Court to-day on a man and his…

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Men Charged With Wounding

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Two men charged with having wounded Mrs. Nancy Joan Flynn (31), of Emma…

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Court Grants Injunction

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--Mr Justice McLelland, in the Equity Court to-day, granted an ex-parte injunction until Wednesday, to restrain John Fairfax and Sons, Pty., Ltd.,…

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Probably Face Court-Martial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 1

CAIRO, Mon. -- Leading aircraftsman, Anthony Rigden May may face a court martial over his disappearance, usually reliable…

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Head Of Order Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 September 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed. -- William Henry Long (58) selfstyled world head of the Rosicrucian Order of the…

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Police Search For Killer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. --Detectives have narrowed down the search for the killer of Robert Lennon to a few men --possibly two…

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Police Evidence Unsatisfactory; Jury Discharged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 September 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Because of unsatisfactory police evidence, Judge CIegg, in the Quarter Sessions to-day,…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A 68-years-old man was committed for trial in the City Coroner's Court to-day on a…

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No Police Station at Ebor

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police has advised the Armidale Pastures Protection Board that a police station at Ebor is not…

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Costs Paid Into Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Legal costs amounting to more than £300 have been paid into the District Court on behalf…

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Police Guard German Border

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 3

BONN, Fri.--Ten thousand armed West German police to-day guarded the East-West German border…

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Police Visit Homes Of Ex-Aldermen

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Detectives to-night visited the homes of two former aldermen of Leichhardt Council…

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Shot Woman; Man Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. -- A man who shot a woman, for whom he left his wife, received five years' penal…

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Gaol for Theft From Mails

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 4

LONDON, Thurs. -- Postman Henry William Eagle, (37), of Three Bridges, Sussex, who pleaded guilty…

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Eight Charged Following Raid on Aborigines' Camp

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 8

Charges of offensive behaviour, indecent language and drunkenness were laid against eight men following a visit by…

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Police Evidence Of Interview

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- The story of how a hacksaw was allegedly used to cut the head and hands from the body of a man on a river bank at night was unfolded in the…

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Charged with Store Theft

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sin.--A man who escaped a fusilade of bullets on Friday night, has been charged with stealing…

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