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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 5

Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., announced his determination in four applications before the Fair Rents Court at…

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Mossadeq To Face Court Martial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 4

TEHERAN, Monday--The Shah of Persia yesterday ordered that Persia's former Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq, be tried by court martial…

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Marginal Claim to Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Metal Trades Unions claim for a 28marginal increase for 100,000…

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Charged With Forging £10 Notes

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Edward Charles Winde[?]er (39), labourer, of Westmorland street, Glebe, appeared in Central Court to-day, charged with having forged 367…

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Chinese Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 September 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. -- A Twenty-seven-year-old Chinese, Ng Tai Leung, was sentenced in the special…

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Say Axe, Knife Murder Weapons

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 September 1953 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday. -- An axe and a ghurka knife were produced by the prosecution at the opening day of the "towpath murders'' at Richmond Court…

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Shire Rolls Declared By Revision Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 September 1953 · page 1

A Revision Court for the purpose of revising the electors' rolls for the Shire of Dorrigo, sat at Coffs Harbour on Tuesday…

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Escaped From Berrima Gaol

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Fri.--A man charged with escaping from lawful custody told the Quarter Sessions to-day that…

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Sentenced to Rising

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 6

Robert M. McDermott, 42, labourer, of 32 Villiers street, Grafton, was fined 10 or the rising of the…

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Two Charged With Drunkenness

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 3

William Sheehy (76), of Grafton, was charged at the Court of Petty Sessions with being found drunk in Grafton Street, Coffs…

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Railway Ganger Guilty Of Assault

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 6

A railway ganger was lined £2 with costs amounting to £1419 when found guilty in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions of assaulting a member of his gang…

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Concentrating on Theory of Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Mon.--No developments are expected for several days in the investigations into the death…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon--Two Cypriots were committed for trial by the City Coroner, Mr. Burke, S.M.,…

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"Pestilence Police" Are Popular

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 4

ROSENHEIM, (Bavaria).--Bavarians fear that an Austrian decision to permit hunting of rock eagles,…

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Wife And Two Men On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.--A woman had told a detective that she and a man had agreed to "get rid" of her husband so that they could "get his money and go away together," Brisbane Court was told to-day…

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Police Will Assist Ambulance To Raise Funds

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 3

Coffs Harbour police have joined forces with t[?]e Ambulance Ladies' Auxiliary to raise funds for the new ambulance car…

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Three Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday--A man who admitted he was hired to murder brewery director Roy Allan Ferguson, said when he saw Ferguson lying in bed asleep he could…

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Two Years' Gaol For Woman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 4

LISMORE, Tuesday. -- A woman who attacked a sleeping man with an axe at Evans Head was to-day…

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Newspaper Case Court Decision

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Mr. Justice Meyers in the Equity Court to-day, dismissed an application by Gabriel Selmar Reichenbach for continuation of an injunction to…

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Mossadeq Sentenced To Death

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--Deposed Iranian Premier, Mohammed Mossadeq, after a secret trial lasting nearly…

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