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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 37

Husband Charged With Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 October 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday—A 36-year-old engine driver yesterday strangled his wife with a piece of sashcord while she slept, police said in Central Court to-day…

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Popularity Down Remanded on Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 October 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Mon.—The latest Gallup poll reported that President Eisenhower's popularity was down 10 BRISBANE, Mon.—Cyril Murray (39), was to-day charged in Quilpie Police Court with having…

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Case Settled Out of Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues. -- A bankruptcy case for recuperation by the official receiver of £6250 paid by…

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Support Court Or Invite Chaos

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 2

THE action of the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr. A. E. Monk, in threatening to withdraw from the Arbitration…

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Court Gives Reasons For Abolishing COL Adjustments

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The Arbitration Court abolished automatic cost of living adjustments because Australia's economy could not be assumed capable of continuing to bear the basic wage "whatever may be its money terms."…

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Cypriot Found Guilty Of Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 October 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.--One of two Cypriots charged with having murdered the head steward of Royal…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 October 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN, Wed.--At the Licensing Court at Maclean to-day, before Mr. A. E. Capp, Licensing…

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Suicide After Attempting To Murder Wife Coroner's Finding

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 October 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The City Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M.), to-day found that a 44-years-old salesman had committed suicide after attempting to…

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Fined £10 for Stealing Tobacco and Cigarettes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 8

Frederick Martin (52), of Coffs Harbour, was fined £10 and ordered to pay £11/3/8 compensation by Mr. A. E. Capp, SM, in…

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A.L.P. President On Court's Reasons

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Arbitration Court had "become the plaything of politicians," the New South Wales president of the A.L.P., Mr. W. R…

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Motorist Charged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 October 1953 · page 2

MACLEAN--Douglas McPhee appeared before the Maclean Court of Petty Sessions on charges of…

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Charges Of Torture Murder

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 October 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri. -- The United States is placing on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly…

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Take Out Writ Against Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 October 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A writ of prohibition against the Arbitration Court would now definitely be taken out through an affiliated union, the…

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Sentenced Reduced

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 2

ROME, Sun.--The Rome Appeals Court yesterday reduced the 13 years sentence on Antonio Pallante,…

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Alleged Assault At Harwood Island

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN, Saturday.--The hearing of charges of alleged assault by John and Bede Carey, farmers, of Lower Harwood Island, was continued at…

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Crown Alleges Motives For Murder

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Mon.--Clandestine love and monetary gain were motives for a Brisbane murder, Brisbane Criminal Court was told to-day…

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Match Against Police Eleven

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 November 1953 · page 7

The match between Mr. G. Gerrard's XI. and the Sydnev Folice team to-morrow on Fisher Park…

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Boys Interviewed By Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 November 1953 · page 2

Police hope that the keen observation of a night wachman has ended a series of troublesome minor…

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Turpin Charged with Assault

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 November 1953 · page 7

NEW YORK, Wed.--British middleweight boxing champion, Randolph Turpin, a former world…

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Death Sentence For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 November 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.--Alfred Charles Whiteway (22), labourer, whose hobby is knife throwing, stood…

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