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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Youth Convicted of Murder

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- A 17-year-old youth was convicted in the Criminal Court to-day of having…

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Wants Backing For Assault On Communist China

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thurs.--President Syngman Rhee, of South Korea, wants the United States to end the "unwise armistice" in partitioned Korea, and to back his nation in an assault on Communis China…

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Police Search For State Member

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE. Thursday.-- Police are searching for the State member for Cook, Mr. H. A. Adair, who has been…

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Police Search For Stowaway

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday. -- A British police party 120 strong, boarded the Polish freighter, Jaroslav Dabrowski, in the Thames last night, to serve a writ on…

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Court Case for Payment

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 3

MACLEAN, Sat.-- Mackay's Radio Service proceeded against Valentine Garde and another at Maclean Court for the payment…

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Court Told: Bureaucracy Overburdens Local Government

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 3

COFFS HARBOUR, Sat.--"This is purely a technical offence against the bureaucracy which…

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Assault Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 6

COFFS HARBOUR, Mon.--Actions for assault brought by Irene Kathleen Daley and Kelleth…

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Gaol Sentence for Woman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.--Mr. Justice Brown to-day sentenced a 22-year old woman to 12 months' gaol in the…

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Gold Seized by Police

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.-- Police early to-day seized at pistol point £16,000 worth of gold alleged to have been…

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Police Seeking Master Cracksman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Police said to-day that they believed a criminal recently released from gaol directed a gang of cracksmen which stole £3000…

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In Gaol, Due For Operation

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A woman gaoled for contempt of court yesterday, is due to undergo a major…

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Three Dismissed From Police Fonce

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Three policemen, charged before civil courts with breaches of the law have been dismissed from the force by the Police…

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Police Search Bush To Arrest Suspect

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

An intensive search by a party of Grafton police in rough and swampy, country in the Koolkhan area culminated in the arrest of a man early yesterday…

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Letters To The Editor Police Praise

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

Sir.--I have read official reports regarding the search for the late Thomas Bryce, who was reported missing in…

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Braise For Police Sergeant

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 2

Tributes to Police Sergeant J. T. Parkinson, who will leave Grafton on transfer to Lithgow next week,…

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Stole Police Patrol Car

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Thieves sole a police wireless patrol car Parked outside a house at…

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Baker Charged With Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1954 · page 6

A suspended sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed on William Clarence Daniels, 53, baker,…

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Driver Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1954 · page 6

Henry John Palmer, 27, of Rushtorth bad South Grafton appeared at Grafton Court of Petty Session…

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Sentenced Natives To Death

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1954 · page 1

WEWAK, Monday.--Mr. Justice Gore, in the Supreme Court to-day, sentenced to death ten Telefomin…

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Gaol Term For Vagrancy

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1954 · page 6

A man who has interstate convictions for vagrancy offences and "jumping the rattler" on railways…

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