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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Police Raid on Night Club

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 3

Early on Sunday morning, 6 police, headed by Inspector J. E. Forsyth, of Lismore, travelled 75 miles to raid a…

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Soviet U-boats for E Germany Police

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 6

BERLIN. -- East Germany's sea police are to be equipped with Soviet-made submarines to complete their light but swift coastal guard service, according to reports received by the Western…

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Victorian Visitor Pleads Guilty to Assault Charges

The Northern Champion · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 1

Fines and costs totalling £44/3/0 were imposed on a part-time school teacher at Taree Court House on…

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Police Chief's Visit Off

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 2

Visit by the N.S.W. Police Commissioner, Mr. Delaney, to the North Coast has been postponed indefinitely…

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May Try New Tar Product On Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 1

At last week's meeting of the Gloucester Shire Council Cr. McRae recommended that the third new tennis court on the…

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Alleged Stealing Case Adjourned

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 8

At Kempsey Petty Sessions on Wednesday an Armidale man, Stanley Ivan James, 38, a motor mechanic, was…

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Fine for Stealing From Rectory

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 4

A man who police said, had been drinking principally metho and kerosene during his stay at…

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Mau Murder

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 1

KENYA, Sun. -- Police last night found the bodies of a British farmer, his wife and 6-year-old son, who had been…

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Waverton Murder No Fresh Move

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun. -- Detectives have made no fresh move in connection with the murder of Shirley Butler, 21, at…

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Bellingen Want More Police

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 4

BELLINGEN -- Bellingen Shire Council will write to the Commissioner of Police requesting an early…

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Fair Rents Court

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 6

At Kempsey Court House on Wednesday, before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S. M., Ethel A. Harper (lessor) and Jack R…

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Stole Signed Blank Cheque; Went to Police

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 3

A young man, Kevin Bruce Swan, was convicted of stealing £25, and converting same to his own use in the Kempsey Petty Sessions on Wednesday…

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Desperate Bid to Escape Gaol

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues. -- Four of Australia's most notorious criminals this afternoon made a dramatic…

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Victorian Visitor Pays for Assault at Taree

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 7

Fines and costs totalling £443- were imposed on a part-time school teacher at Taree Petty Sessions last week. The school-teacher had pleaded guilty to three…

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Court Move on Wage Price Index System

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 6

CANBERRA. -- The Acting Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. Carver) said a memorandum on the wage-price index will be submitted to the Arbitration Court in the present basic wage case…

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Five Sentenced for Gaol Break

Macleay Argus · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Mr. Smythe, SM, held a special court at Parramatta gaol today to inquire into the…

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Alleged Beer Stealing at Kendall Railway; Case Adjourned Part-Heard

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 1

A part-heard case in which a 20 years-old railway employee is charged an two counts of alleged stealing six bottles of beer, the property of the Commissioner for Railways, was…

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Unusual Court Case at Forster

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 4
Also in The Gloucester Advocate

Before Mr. Stapleton, SM, in the Forster Court of Petty Sessions last Thursday, a case of interest to timber men came…

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FORSTER Small Debts Court Case

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 4

A part-heard case in the Forster Small Debts Court was decided on Thursday last before Mr. Stapleton, SM, when…

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