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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Charged With Extravagance

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 4

Mr. F. Maxwell at yesterday's Clarence P. and A. Society's council meeting held that expenditure on the…

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Four Charged with Treason

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Mon.—Frenchman Andre Baranes, Communist journalist and police informer, yesterday became…

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Disservice To Police Force Says Opposition Leader

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Government has something to hide in connection with the Quinn Case at Inverell and is determined to cover it up, the State…

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Must Go To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 7

NEW YORK, Tues.--Boxer Johnny Saxton has been told that whether he wins or loses his world…

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Two Men Charged with Illegally Opening Graves

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 7 October 1954 · page 8

Two men who pleaded guilty to digging up two gruves, one at Guyra one [?] at Armidale—at night were…

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New Judge Of District Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Former Lismore. and North Coast resident, Mr. L. C. Furnell, Q.C., has been, appointed a…

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International Court Of Justice

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 October 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, Fri.--Pakistani Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zaffrullah Khan (above) has been…

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£500 Interest Charged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Bandleader Les Welch said today he did not know he would be charged £500…

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Gaol On Larceny Charge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 4

A sentence of two months' gaol was imposed on Rueben Mason, 53, railway employee, of Rappville, at…

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£15 Fine For Bicycle Theft

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 4

A young married man who claimed to have taken possession of a bicycle which he had…

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Charged With Spending £3M. Single-Handed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Auditor-General's report showed that the Premier, Mr. Cahill, alone disposed…

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Fair Rents Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 5

At the Grafton Fair Rents Court, on Monday, Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., fixed the rental of a dwelling house…

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Police Seek For Hit-Run Driver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues. --Police to-night began an intensive search for the driver of a car which knocked down…

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Shots Fired at Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Every available policeman in Sydney was rushed to Yarra Bay to-night, to search for a gunman, who earlier had shot and wounded two police…

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3822 Drunken Drivers Before Police Courts

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 1

Last year in New South Wales the Courts dealt with 3822 drunken rivers said, the Superintendent of Traffic…

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Six Men Charged with Exceeding Speed Limit

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 6

Six men were charged on summons at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions with exceeding the speed limit…

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Gunman Evades Police Net Sydney Manhunt

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Sydney's elusive gunman continued to evade the biggest police dragnet in the City's history East night. The [?]unman. now known to have a bullet wound in the…

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No Criminal Gases Before Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 4

No criminal cases will come before a sitting of Quarter Sessions in Grafton next week…

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Mons Dismissed And Charged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1954 · page 1

PARIS, Fri.--The French Secretary-General, Jean Mons, to-day was dismissed from his post and charged…

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Former Police Chief To Appear

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1954 · page 1

PARIS, Friday.--Former Paris police chief, Jean Baylot, has been summoned to appear before a Versailles magistrate on Saturday to explain how an escaped…

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