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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

731 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 37

Brothers Win Assault Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 6

The Stipendiary Magistrate at Grafton yesterday found for two brothers in assault actions arising from a fight at the South Grafton saleyards on February 26…

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Tennis Court Locations

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 6

Court locations in the Grafton and District Tennis Association's teams competition for the 1953 season…

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Soldier Charged

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 4

WAGGA, Tues.-- Donald Arthur Cross, soldier, of Kopooka camp, Wagga, was remanded until April 7, in…

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Police Support Ward Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

Police throughout the Grafton sub-district would make a full-scale effort in support of the Florence…

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Randolph Turpin In Divorce Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 6

LONDON, Wed.--British boxer, Randolph Turpin, contender for the vacant world middleweight title,…

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Three Years' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A former company director, Keith David Eric Barr, 38, of Hastings road, Warrawee,…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN.--Jean Motum of Maclean, was granted an extension of time as agent to June 30 and as licensee…

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10 Years' Gaol For Rape Of Woman, 76

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thurs.--In Central Criminal Court to-day, Robert William Cloy, 24, Truck driver, was…

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Police Recover Motor Vehicles

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 3

An unusual crop of motor car disappearances, was reported, yesterday, to the police at Coffs Harbour arid Grafton. Active police work has resulted in all the vehicles…

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Charged With Theft Of Yacht

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.-- Two young men and a girl were to-day committed for trial by Mr. Austin, S.M., for the…

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Gaol Despite Leniency Plea

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Judge Holden sentenced a man to four years and three months' gaol for unlawfully…

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Yamba Man On Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 4

MACLEAN.--At Maclean Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M. Neil Dudley…

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Charged Over Missing Car

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 2

A young Coffs Harbour district man was charged at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with having…

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Charged with Killed Son

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--George Rudston Brown (66), retired electrician, was committed for trial to-day on a…

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Police Swoop

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

NAIROBI, Sun.--Hundreds of police and armoured cars swooped on Bahati, an African location,…

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Police Find In Dustbin

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday. -- Human remains-- possibly those of a fifth victim of the Notting Hill murderer--were found by police digging in the garden of the "murder…

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Charged By Cow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--During the day a cow charged a group of people and. injured a six years old boy…

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Police Ready For Trouble

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 1

ROME, Mon.--Police stood by throughout Italy to-day on guard for trouble as Communists called out workers in the first general strike for two years…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 6

Before the Fair Rents Court, Grafton, yesterday, Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., gave his reserved decision on an…

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Alcatraz, Terror Gaol of Criminals May Go

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 2

The days of the Rock, the Federal Government's island prison for the nation's toughest criminals, are numbered. Cost per capita for maintaining the…

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