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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 37

Gaol For Woman

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 4

Stella Onions, 44, of 133 Fry street, Grafton, was sentenced to 14 days gaol by Mr. O. J. Lake, S.M.,…

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Film Assault Against T.V.

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 4

NEW YORK; Mon.--RKO Pictures said yesterday it had obtained a license to use a new and improved…

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Treatt On Police Force

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--The police force could deteriorate very rapidly if subjected to the subtle and…

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Stole Letters, Gaol Sentence

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Alfred Jesse Kemsley, 39, Oxford street, Paddington, G.P.O. letter sorter, was sent to…

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Demands Gaol For Weaver

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 1

TOKIO, Wed.--A Japanese prosecutor yesterday demanded 12 months gaol for Frank Loyal Weaver, 27, the…

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Full Court Reserves Judgment

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.--The State Full Court to-day reserved judgment on a challenge to the appointment of…

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Perjury Accusations In Supreme Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Accusations of perjury were made by Mr. Gordon Wallace, Q.C., in the Supreme Court to-day. Mr. Wallace was appearing for the Director of State Coalmines, Mr. J. M. Baddeley…

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Charged With Smuggling Arms

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 4

DALLAS (Texas), Fri.--A Federal Grand Jury has indicted 12 persons on charges of shipping about…

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Court Papers Sent to Attorney General

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 6

"I direct a prosecution for [?] against the defence witnesses particularly against the witnesses Luckett and…

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Gaol Sentence For Weaver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 1

TOKIO, Tues.--A Japanese Court to-day sentenced Frank Loyal Weaver, 27-years-old Australian…

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Police Seize Many Pistols

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday--Raids by police on suburban hemes and city shops and warehouses have led to the seizing of more than 1200 pistols and the subsequent charging…

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Life In Gaol For Provoo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wed.--Former American Army sergeant John David Provoo, 36, who went over to…

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Gaol For Church Deacon

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 1

MAITLAND, Fri. -- A former Baptist Church deacon was to-day sentenced by Judge…

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Police Abandon Flood Search

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 3

LISMORE, Friday. -- Lismore police to-night abandoned the search for a body of a man believed washed away in a strong flood current seven miles from Lismore…

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Gaol For Mother

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 1

DETROIT, Sun.--A mother was sentenced to five to 14 years imprisonment for embezzling…

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Women Police In London

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--Women police officers from Commonwealth countries now regularly sit in as…

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Nurse And Youth In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 4

A 20-year-old Grafton nurse and a young man pleaded guilty at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to charges arising out of a disturbance near the Showground last Wednesday night…

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Preferred To Slab Himself In Police Station

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.-- A man walked into the Geelong Police Station this afternoon told police he…

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Told Court Husband's Papers Burned

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday--Marie Joan Doyle, wife of Reginald Aubrey Doyle, told the Registrar in Bankruptcy to-day, she had burned all her husband's papers, because…

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Classification Of Gaol Inmates

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--New South Wales gaol inmates will be placed in various classifications under new prison regulations which will come into effect next month…

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