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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 30 of 37

Police Chief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 October 1953 · page 1

The first African to attain the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police in East Africa is…

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Tennis Court For School

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 October 1953 · page 3

PALMER'S CHANNEL, Sat.--The local P. and C. Association has carried out the construction of a…

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Widow Will Work To Clear Husband's Name Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--The 28-year-old widow of Karl Gross said to-day that she would work for the rest of her life to clear her husband's name of murder. She said that nothing would ever convince her that her…

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Gaol On Vagrancy Counts

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 October 1953 · page 6

A young white man and two coloured men were sentenced to gaol on vagrancy charges by Mr. A. E…

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Youth Remanded On Two Assault Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 October 1953 · page 6

A remand was granted, over police objections, in the hearing of two charges against Bruce Meredith…

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May Challenge Court's Power

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--The Waterside Workers Federation will challenge, in the High Court, the Arbitration…

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Doyle Sentenced To Confinement

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Reginald Aubrey Doyle, who is serving a 10 years' gaol sentence for theft, forgery…

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Death Sentence For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 October 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.--A Criminal Court jury to-day convicted William Henry Barton (42), of having…

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Sentenced For Stealing Wine

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 4

COFFS HARBOUR, Thurs.--At the Court of Petty Sessions. Coff's Harbour, before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M.,…

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Three Months'gaol for Stealing Two Bottles of Wine

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 4

Alfred Mercy (34) was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday,…

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Heading for Gaol Sentence

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 4

"It looks like the time is coming very shortly when you will be going Ho gaol, if you do not mend your ways,"said Mr. A…

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Heavy Guard For Charged Couple

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 5

KANSAS CITY, Thursday.--Manacled and chained, Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, who have confessed to the murder-kidnapping of…

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Charged With Conspiring To Defraud Rail Commissioner

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Five men have now been charged in Newcastle Court with conspiring together to cheat and defraud the Commissioner for Railways of more than £4000…

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Is Dalmorton Police Station To Close?

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 3

Rumours that the police station, at Dalmorton, between Grafton and Glen Innes, is to be closed, were…

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Happy Throng at Police and Ambulance Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 1

Under the capable organisa tion of Constable Harley White the Police and Ambulance Ball last Friday night was regarded…

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Charged With Forging Notes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 October 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.--A man charged with forging £10 notes had claimed to have maide 650 "good" ones, Detective Rex Ladkin testified at Central Court…

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Police Seek Lord Montague

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 October 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.--Britain's "most eligible bachelor," Lord Montague, of Beaulieu, now believed to be in the…

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Police Active In Georgetown To Stop Trouble

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 October 1953 · page 1

GEORGETOWN, Friday.--Steel-helmeted police swooped into the Bourda area last night to prevent a…

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Fine For Stealing

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 4

COFFS HARBOUR, Mon.--Trevor Lloyd Harris (23), of Coffs Harbour, labourer, was fined £10 by Mr. A. E…

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Naval Rating Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Sydney detectives to-night arrested and charged a 20-year-old married naval rating with…

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