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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

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Gun Duel With Police At Redfern

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday: Stephen Henry Cunningham, 24-year-old criminal and AWL soldier, who fought on hour's gun duel with the police at Redfern…

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Great Air Assault On Mandalay "Prelude To Land Attack" By the Associated Press Special Correspondent

Northern Star · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 5

FROM AN R.A.F. HEAVY BOMBER BASE SOMEWHERE IN BENGAL, Sunday.—The biggest concentration of heavy bombers yet assembled in this theatre made a devastating raid on Mandalay to-day…

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Report British Reject Court to Try Hitler

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: The British Foreign Office has dumbfounded the 14 members of the United Nations' War Crimes Commission by rejection of their recommendation for the establishment of an inter-Allied Court…

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To The Editor Letters to the Editor must be Limited to Approximately 350 Words. Court Decorum

Northern Star · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 3

Sir,—The seedy individual who calls occasionally for donations of discarded raimant spat enthusiastically on the verandah that my…

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Suspected of Murder

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Detectives believe that Stephen Henry Cunningham (24), who shot himself on Saturday after a gunfight with…

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Court Decorum

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 3

Sir,—The Police Magistrate is debarred by regulation from replying to criticism regarding his request that persons attending his courts…

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Manila May Have To Be Taken By Assault

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 4

LUZON, Monday: Some refugees from Manila believe that the Japanese will not declare the national Philippine capital an "open city" as General MacArthur did…

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Alleged Assault on Imbecile Daughter Woman Sent to Jail

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: A married woman. Flora Isabel King, of Ashgrove, who, it was alleged, "belted" her…

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Tweed Heads Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 4

At Tweed Heads Police Court yesterday, before Mr E. L. Bailey, JP, Charles Morgan was convicted on a charge of being in…

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Luftwaffe "Court of Honor"

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 4

LONDON, Monday: Reich-Marshal Goering himself is president of a special Luftwaffe "court of honor," which for the past two…

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Different View on Wearing Coats in Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 2

Mr W. H. Boden (counsel for defence in Brisbane police court): I must apologise your Worship that the witness is not wearing a…

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Youth Bound Over on Theft Charges

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 4

Two charges of stealing were preferred against Claude Eric Lavis (18) at Lismore Court yesterday before the P.M. (Mr. A. J. Bryant)…

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City Murder Clue In Western N.S.W

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Detectives from the C.I.B. are in a western New South Wales town in connection with the murder of Maurice…

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Coats Off in Brisbane Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 4

Mr. W. H. Bo den (counsel for defence in Brisbane police court): I must apologise your Worshep that…

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Govt. Charged with Inconsistency

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 2

One Government department, and all the talking Parliamentarians, clamored for more production, more milk and cheese…

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Charged with Two Murders

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Orange Court to-day C[?]il Norman, 32, was charged with the murder of Constable Eric George…

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Charge of Stealing £8467 From Council

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: On a charge that between July 16, 1940, and July 10, 1944, at St. George, while a servant of the…

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3 Jailed On Tyre Theft Charges

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday:--Three men, Dominic Smith (33), watchman, Cecil Firman (34), rubber worker, and Reginald…

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Court Decorum

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 3

Sir,—In actual practice, on the question of how one should be dressed in a court of law when appearing as a witness, there…

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Committal on Intent To Murder Charge

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Robert Martin Duggan, 29, was charged at the Paddington Court to-day with having shot at Elizabeth Robertson…

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