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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

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Ballina Licensing Court

Northern Star · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 5

BALLINA, Friday. — At the Licensing Court to-day renewals of licenses were panted by the Magistrate (Mr. A. J. Eryant) to…

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Evidence at Court-martial

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 4

WARWICK, Friday: Further evidence for the defence was given at the district court-martial today in the case against Sergeant Blake,…

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Alstonvilie Court Heavy Fines for Illegal Use of Petrol

Northern Star · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 5

At Alstonville Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Bryant, P.M., H. R. Campbell, of Alstonville, was charged with two…

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£2000 Coins Found in Police Raid

Northern Star · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Silver coins valued at £2000 were found by detectives hidden in a cellar of a house at Newtown last night. The…

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Fined for Assault

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 4

Kingsford Davis was convicted at Lismore Court yesterday of having unlawfully assaulted Charley Nundah…

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Gaol for Liquor Offences

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.- Pleading guilty at a special Federal Court today to three charges of selling: liquor at prices exceeding its cost…

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Tweed Heads Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 4

At Tweed Heads Police Court yesterday Marshall Appoo (22) and Andrew Noter (23) colored men, were convicted and fined £3 each,…

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Revenge Possible Motive for Murder of Soldier

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.- Revenge may have been the motive for the murder yesterday of a soldier, Phillip Beatty (24), of Campsie…

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Court Action Over Transport of St Warden

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: John Nicholson, of Allandale stock farm, Mentone, was charged to-day with two counts of breaches…

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Pilot Court Martialled: Man, Girl Hurt by Cable

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The circumstances in which a man lost both of his feet and a girl lost her arm when they were struck by a…

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Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 2

At Murwillumbah Licensing Court yesterday the Inspector (Sergeant E. E. Hill) presented his quarterly report for the period ended…

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Local and General Murwillumbah Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 2

Proceedings at the fortnightly sittings of Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions and Small Debts Court yesterday occupied…

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Pilot Acquited by Court Martial; Accident Over Beach

Northern Star · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Flight Sgt. Lindsay White, in a statement in his defence at the court martial to-day, said that…

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Torture and Murder Of American and Filipino Prisoners

Tweed Daily · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday: The Army and Naval Journal has issued a documented account of the brutalities to the Americans and the Fillipinos taken prisoner of war at Bataan and…

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Coolangatta Court Alleged Prices Breaches Fruit, Vegetables

Tweed Daily · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 4

Fines and costs aggregating £11614 were imposed on four Coolangatta retailers and one Burleigh Heads firm by Mr A. E…

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"Terrorists" Fight Vichy Police

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Monday (AAP).—According to Vichy radio, French police and Laval's special guard on Saturday fought a pitched battle…

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Stole Suitings, Police Allege

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday. — Sydney James de Kuype, 61, a jobbing contractor, was charged at the Police Court to-day with having broken…

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Italian Generals And Admirals Sentenced

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—Without giving any details of the actual penalties, the Ger man Newsagency's special correspondent says an Italian tribunal sentenced three generals and four admirals, including Gene ral Garibaldi Commander in…

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"Italian Generals and Admirals Sentenced"

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: The German News Agency says: "A special Italian tribunal sentenced three generals and four admirals…

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Again Sentenced

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Two men, William P. Davies and Geoffrey Marriott, who were convicted and sent to jail for one month in…

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