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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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Police Transfers

Northern Star · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 4

Constable C. B. Condon, who for some time has been officer in charge of the Bonalbo police station, was one of the few police stationed in country areas…

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Householders Charged for Use of Free Shelters

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday:--Henry Adoply Ramsay, a 44-year-old clerk was sentenced to-day to imprisonment for a year for charging householders for…

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Police Struck Brisbane Raids

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday:--During widespread police raids on property belonging to the now illegal Jehovah's Witnesses organisation…

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Tweed Heads Court

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 2

At the Tweed Heads' Police Court Yesterday, Messrs. R. G. Collins and W. A. Morley, J's.P., convicted George Beckman, of Bogangar, on a police…

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Police Will Not Hand Over Body

Northern Star · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 7

SYDNEY, Sunday.—High police officials said yesterday that the Police Department was satisfied that the Albury "pyjama girl" was not the…

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Youth Sentenced on Forgery and Stealing Charges

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 10

Raymond Neville Snell (13), pleaded guilty at the Lismore Police Court yesterday to a charge of having stolen five cheque forms from his…

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Fewer Police Court Cases: Less Betting

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 10

Fewer police court matters were listed in Lismore during 1940 than was the case in 1939, according to returns prepared at…

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Spanish Republican Leaders Sentenced

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 6

LONDON, Sunday:--A report from Madrid states that a tribunal has sentenced. in absentia, Senor Largo Caballero (former Spanish Prime Minister)…

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Tweed Heads Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 5

William F. Small was charged in Tweed Heads Police Court yesterday with stealing a lady's rubber cape, the property of Annie Aileen Cox, of the…

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Kassala Is Re-captured British Offensive Moves in Africa Preparations For Tobruk Assault

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 2

LONDON: The British offesive in the African theatre of war moved to another sector when British troops reoccupied Kassala, on the Sudan-Abyssinia frontier. "By intense patrol over a period of weeks, our troops, at…

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Detained by Police

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:—After a six-hour search of sand and scrub country to-day police, aided by black-trackers, detained for questioning…

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Lost Property at Police Station

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 2

Three unclaimed bicycles are at the Lismore police station awaiting owners. The bicycles may be repossessed on being identified. There is also a woman's…

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Police Search For £800 Filly

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Police are searching for a two-year-old chestnut filly, claimed to be worth £800, which is believed to have strayed from a…

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Boys' Adventures Story Told in Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Tuesday:—A fortnight's adventures, which began with an attempt to set fire to a car and ended with several varied incidents…

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Two Women Charged with Assault

Northern Star · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Mrs. Ettie Franklin, clad in her night attire, jumped from a window into the garden of her Bondi home…

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Youth Charged with Murder of Sister

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday:—A[?] Nyah West Police Court to-day, Harold Woddier (19) was charged with having murdered his sister, Violet (14) on…

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Dismissal of Charges of Police Assault

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 6

Clain[?]ing that it may have been an accident, the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. McElroy) yesterday dismissed two charges brought against Leslie Pink,…

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Assault Charge Dismissed

Northern Star · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 3

MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday. —Stating that it may have been an accident, the P.M. (Mr. J. McElroy) dismissed two charges brought against…

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Youth on Murder Charge

Northern Star · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday—Harold Woodier (19), was to-day remanded until January 29 on a charge of murdering his 14-year-old sister, Phyllis,…

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Three Months' Gaol for Stealing Receipts

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—Convicted at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having stolen receipts belonging to the Ministry of Munitions,…

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