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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 37

Youths Charged

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 1

MAITLAND, Thursday.--Twelve youths were charged at Maitland Quarter Sessions today with having had…

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Trainer on Charge Stealing Feed

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 4

MAITLAND, Thurs.--Trainer mechanic Alfred Barker Watkins (33), of Newcastle road, Beresfield, was fined £10 at Maitland Court for having stolen at Beresfield on August 27, a quantity of oats, bran…

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Court Cases

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 10

The following were heard before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Dorrigo Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last…

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Rather Strange Police Force

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 1

STRASBOURG, Thurs.--East Germany's self styled police force now is armed with 600 tanks…

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Woolgoolga Requests Police, Fire Alarm Post Office

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 4

Decisions concerning the appointment of an assistant police officer, the installation of a fire alarm and the erection of a modern post office were among those…

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Court Told Man Hid Under Bed

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.--A Newcastle truck driver told Brisbane Police Court today that Eric Murphy had hidden under a bed when Mrs. Ferguson's…

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Gaol Pending Deportation

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Fri.—A Chinese market gardener was sentenced to six months' gaol in the Special Court to-day…

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Gaol For Taking Czech Airliner

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.--The Czechoslovak Cupreme Court yesterday sentenced to prison terms ranging from…

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Death Leap Police Think

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.—A young mother leaped to her death with her two children in her arms over Jenyns…

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Police Escort For Speeding Taxi

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A motor cycle policeman escorted a taxi racing at full speed with an…

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Three Dead In Home Heads Battered Victims Of Callous Murders, Police Think

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police believe that three members of a Norwegian family found dead in their home in Yarra Road, Yarra Bay, near La Perouse, to-night may have been the victims of the most savage and callous murders in Sydney…

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Police Suspicion Killer Died In Crash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Police suspicions that the man who was killed in a car smash at Kiama last night was the killer of the Harpestad family have now…

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Charged With Double Murder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 3

PERTH, Tuesday.—William Charles Fawcett (66), of Victoria Avenue, Claremont, was remanded to October 8 in the Perth Police Court to-day, on a double…

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For Trial On Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues—A 34-years-old labourer was today committed for trial on a charge of stealing from…

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Gaol Sentence For Dairy Farmer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 5

Eric Vincent McLeay, 49-years-old dairy farmer of Lower Kangaroo Creek, was sentenced to two years' hard labour by Judge Storkey, V.C., in the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday for carnally…

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Police Deny Vitnell's Claim On Alleged Thefts

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday—The Police Commissioner, Mr. Delaney, has denied that alleged thefts from Vitnell's school sites were reported to police…

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Mean Theft

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 2

Grafton Rotary Club has asked the police to keep a close watch on See Park following the theft of a…

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Deny Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thurs.—Mr. Taylor, S.M., to-day committed a woman and two men for trial on a…

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Young Han Fined £10 for Stealing Saw Blade

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 2

Cyril David Blanchard (22). of Coifs Harbour was fined £10 at the Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, for stealing a drag…

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Police Working Hard for Ambulance Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 1

Constable Harley White, organiser for the Ambulance Ball, said all members of the Coffs Harbour police are working hard to make…

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