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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Court Rules On "Green Chairs"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues. -- Mr. Justice McLelland ruled in the Equity Court to-day that about 300 people holding…

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Police Approval For Bus Stops And Signs

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 5

The Superintendent of Traffic, Mr. H. E. Snowden, Monday night informed the South Grafton Municipal…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 9

Six men were arrested over the week-end and dealt with at the Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions…

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Security Charged with Negligence

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The Leader of the Opposition Dr. Evatt, to-night charged the Australian Security Service with gross and culpable negligence in its investigations into Document presented to the Royal Commission on Espionage…

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Police Probe Man's Death

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 3

ALBURY, Thursday. --Sydney and Wagga detectives have gone to Walla Walla, about 25 miles from Albury, to investigate the death early to-day of a…

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Death Of Police Constable

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 2

Senior Constable Thomas Hayden Gait, popular member of the Grafton Police sub-district force, died at…

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Gaol Sentence For Thefts

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 11

MACLEAN.--For having stolen two lots of property at Ulmarra, John William James (38), cook, of…

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Revision Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 5

MACLEAN. -- Mr. Lyle Wright, secretary of the Sportman's Creek Drainage Union and the Little…

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Walked From Police Station

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--A prisoner walked from Redfern Police Station to-day and escaped when a constable who had…

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No Extra Police For Woolgoolga

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 8

WOOLGOOLGA. -- Woolgoolga Chamber of Commerce has been advised the police authorities are…

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Fined For Not Obeying Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 11

MACLEAN.--At the Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., Tedeusd Wock, of Harwood…

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Police March at Funeral of Constable

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 2

TWENTY-ONE members of the Grafton police subdistrict yesterday, marched ahead of the hearse at the…

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Coroner Praised Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 1

"You have been a great help at this inquiry and I thank you. The manner in which you prepared the evidence was praiseworthy and you are both a credit to the New South Wales…

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Police Allege Brown Said "Would Have Shot Both Of You"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A constable who assisted in the arrest of Robert Michael Brown said in Central Court to-day that Brown had told arresting police he would have shot them if he had had his gun…

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Seven Charged With Drunkenness

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 6

There was a prepondance of visitors to town in the week-end round up of persons under the influence, who were arrested in…

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Police Protection Racket Alleged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 4

WELLINGTON, Wednesday--Existence of a bookmakers' ring, allegedly to pay two police officers, including the present Police Commissioner, E. H. Compton, £50 every…

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On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--An Italian woman was remanded in Burwood Court to-day on a murder charge…

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Tribute Paid Country Police

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 November 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Fri.--Country police dad "a marvellous job," especially at one-man stations, Mr. G. Crawford,…

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Claims Police Refused Help

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 November 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri. -- Police had refused to act when the headmaster of Bundeena School was thrown into…

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Police Net Out For Escapee

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 November 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. -- All Sydney police have been alerted to watch for a man described as a "cunning and…

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