Police Arrest Boy With Polio Brace
SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. --Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy wearing a polio brace…
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Courts & crime, 1954
680 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 34
Carving Knife To Stab Wife Court Told
BRISBANE, Thursday. --A man charged with murder told a detective he stabbed his wife to death with a carving knife because "her heart did not belong…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- The New South Wales Commissioner of Police, Mr. C. J. Delaney, has reported to the Premier Mr. Cahill, there is no justification for an investigation either by Royal Commission or any other means, info the…
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Figures released by Mr. T. T. Slack, clerk of Petty Sessions at Coffs Harbour, reveal that the number of charge and summons cases heard before the Court of Petty Sessions and Children's Court during 1953 was the highest on record…
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MEXICO CITY, Tues -- Mrs. Lucina Alvarado Tessada, 47, has been ordered to be held for…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Wednesday--in the Court of Petty Sessions at Coffs Harbour, a man was fined £10 with 12 court costs by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., for giving a…
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Six men were charged with drunkenness at the Court of Petty Sessions during the week. Five were from Coffs Harbour and the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Police to-night battled for half an hour to move back a crowd which had broken through the barriers outside the entrance to…
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"We are being assailed at present by press suggestions of bribes being offered to police officers. I must take a very serious view of the offence," said Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M. when imposing the maximum penalty of £10 on William H. Wilson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search For Motorist
Police last night were seraching for an alleged hit-run motorist in the Grafton district…
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SYDNEY. Sun.--A young charged woman was charged with the murder of another woman at Darlinghurst…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Measures taken by the N.S.W. Police Force to control crowds during the Royal…
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A prosecution against two men for allegedly maliciously damaging a weighing machine outside a pharmacy was dismissed by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Tues. -- Western Harvey, a coloured man, of Coffs Harbour, who pleaded guilty to…
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MACLEAN, Tuesday.--At Maclean Court of Petty Sessions this afternoon, Richard Ellem. of Taloumbl,…
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The police, including those from the Grafton sub-district under Police Inspector T. P. Crawford, are…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.-- The police had almost finished plans for the safety of the Royal Party during…
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The surging crowd at the Hotel Collan on the arrival of the Queen on Tuesday night threa ened…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.-- Two youths who bet on horses and dogs with stolen money were to-day sentenced to…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.-- Police who yesterday arrested Harold Weinberg, 25, ex- convict and former mental…
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