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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

680 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 34

Committed On Stealing Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--A man alleged to have stolen 24 bales of wool was committed for trial at Central Court…

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Husband Of T.B.-Victim Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The husband of a woman dying from tuberculosis was sentenced to two and a half…

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Fined £2000 On Charge Of Wife Stealing

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A Divorce Court jury to-day ordered a Mascot business man to pay £2000 for…

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Fined £250 For Court Contempt

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The "Daily Telegraph" and its acting editor, James King Watson, were to-day fined £250 and £50 respectively in the State Full Supreme…

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Court Of Inquiry To Probe Army Drownings

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.--A panel of four officers of a court of inquiry convened fo take evidence and report upon the circumstances of the drowning of C.M.F. troops during an Army amphibious exercise at Stockton Bight, Newcastle, yesterday, was…

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Teenagers Charged With Rape

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Four teen-age youths have been arrested and charged with raping a 19-years-old girl…

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Kidnapped Baby Found. Woman Charged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--Four months old Christopher Hills, who disappeared with a woman from Newcastle Hospital, was found to-day at a boarding…

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Acquitted On Charge Attempted Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Frederick Charles Thompson (41) labourer, Gray Street, Auburn, was acquitted of a charge of attempted murder in the Central…

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Police Investigate Allegations Of Bribery In Potato Board

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--Police were investigating allegations of bribery against an employee of the Potato…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

In the Industrial Magistrate's Court, before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., Arthur A. Archur, plumber, of Coffs Harbour was fined £3…

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Woman Charged With Abduction

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- A 40-year-old woman was remanded in Newcastle Court to-day, on a charge of having abducted a four months old baby…

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To Probe Charges Of Assault

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. -- A Royal Commission into allegations by David Edward Studley-Ruxton that police assaulted him, will open on Monday…

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Bankruptcy Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 2

John Edward Martin, of Coffs Harbour, appeared before Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, on a public…

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Drove Car After Being Warned by Police

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 5

A man was fined £15 at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday for driving a car while under the influence of…

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Fined £10 for Offering Bribe to Police Officer

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

Asmund Nyg[?], a [?]ian working an the Snowy River scheme at Jindabyni, NSW., was fined £10 at the coffs…

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Court of Petty Sessions Deals With Record List

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

A record number of charge and summons cases were heard by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty…

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Police Search

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 2

Several Grafton police officers, under the direction of Sergt. (1st-Class) T. A. Schuback, made a search of…

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Queen to Move Court?

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Sun. -- The Queen planned to move her court from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle,…

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Magistrate Warns Motorists

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 6

A warning to motorists convicted of failing to give way to vehicles on their right at intersections was…

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3 Years' Gaol For Attacking Wife

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.--A 35-year-old packer, who drank a bottle of thallium and attacked his wife with a knife…

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