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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

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Star Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 3

"FREEDOM RADIO." Clive Brook and lanna Wynyard are the stars of the "ama, "Freedom Radio," which will be screened to-night at the Star Court…

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Woodburn Police Court

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

BEFORE MR. A. J. BRYANT, P.M Major A. Shallard was fined 10/- and 8/- costs for keeping an unregistered dog…

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Strange Man Woman Case Revealed by Court Proceed-ings

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 6

Edward Price Richards, of Los Angeles, who used to shave twice a day, registered for the draft and married a young woman architect, has received…

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Young Man on Murder Charge

Northern Star · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 5

BURNEE, Sunday. — George Walker Martin (22), single, of Mole Creek, was arrested at his home late last night and…

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Tweed Heads Police Expect to Receive More Rifles

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 2

Tweed Heads police have in their possession just over a dozen rifles of various types which have been handed in since the Government's…

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Italian Rebels Sentenced

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 January 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday (AAP.—Two Italians were sentenced to death at Fiume for being members of a band of armed rebels…

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Soldiers Charged with Destruction at Rail Station

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1942 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday:--Damage to Central Railway Station on Saturday night was estimated at £300. said Detective-Sergeant Donovan in the Police…

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Sentenced for Hoarding

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday: An inspector of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute was fined £50 to-day in Hertfordshire and sentenced to imprisonment…

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300 Sth. African Police Arrested

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 5

JOHANNESBURG, Wednesday (AAP).—Government officers have made a large scale round-up of members of the police force…

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Police Killed in Bomb Explosion

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 5

JERUSALEM, Tuesday (AAP).— During the search of a suspected house in Tel Aviv, a mine exploded killing the Jewish police chief and…

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Police As Civil Defence Force

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Since Japan entered the war, selected police officers have slept each night at strategic depots in the…

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Coastal Lighting Police Powers to Prosecute

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police have the right to prosecute any person offending against the regulations gazetted last night…

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Police Provide Additional Civil Defence Force

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: -- Since Japan entered the war, selected police officers have slept each night at strategic depots in the…

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Lighting Breaches Police Have Power to Prosecute

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: -- Police have the right to prosecute any person offending against the regulations gazetted last night…

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Round-up of 300 Police in South Africa

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 5

JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday: Government officers carried out a large-scale round-up lof members of the Police Forces who were…

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Soldiers Sentenced Illegal Use of Car

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 2

CASINO, Thursday. — At the Casino Police Court to-day three of the A.I.F., Ralph Geo. Mares (31), Thos. Fares (23) and William…

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Arrest of 400 South African Police

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 2

PRETORIA, Wednesday: Colonel Barton (Police Commissioner), in a statement on the arrest of 400 policemen, said that there was…

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Police Purge Foiled Plan for Sabotage

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 5

CAPETOWN, Wednesday (AAP). — Four hundred policemen have now been detained for subversive…

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Police Court Indecent Assault Alleged

Northern Star · Saturday 24 January 1942 · page 4

BALLINA, Friday.—Charged with indecently assaulting a boy aged 11 years Raymond Stanislaus Best…

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Man Committed on Murder Charge

Northern Star · Saturday 24 January 1942 · page 5

MELBOURNE. Friday.—Clement Michael Waddell (44), a farmer, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered his…

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