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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,363 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 69

15,000 Tokio Police Plan Wage Strike

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday: The Herald-Tribunes Tokio correspondent says: Fifteen thousand Tokio police are planning to…

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Month's Gaol for Assault False Name to Police

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 4

CASINO, Tuesday.—On a charge that he unlawfully assaulted John McKenzie Laurie at Casino, Ray Symes, alias Cameron, was…

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Czechs Sentenced

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 1

PRAGUE, Tuesday: The new Czechoslovak National Court, in its first trials of Czech war criminals, sentenced to death…

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Jap Admiral Sentenced

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 1

Rear-Admiral Hamanaka, seen taking the oath at the Japanese war crime trials at Morotai. Hamanaka was found guilty of ordering the execution of two prisoners of war, one a member of the R.A.A.F., and the other a member of the R.A.N., near Menado, North Celebes, on June 19 last. He was sentenced to death…

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Lismcre Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 2

"WONDERMAN": At the Star Court, the technicolour production, "Wonderman," starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen,…

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New Police Unit for Traffic Work

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A new traffic police force came into existence yesterday when 50 men, all except two disabled…

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Court Rebuke to Woman Charge Dismissed

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

CASINO, Tuesday.—At Casino Court of Petty Sessions today, before Messrs. M. Hammond C.P.S., and A. R. Hodges, J.P., Amos…

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Sentenced for Helping Enemy

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Leonard Banning (37), a British school teacher, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on five charges…

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Alleged Murder in Kiosk

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Judge Street in chambers today granted bail to Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, charged…

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Police Inquiries Into Death

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

Circumstances of the death of Benjamin Charles Searing, 25, at the residence of his parents in Alstonville yesterday were…

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Police Say Socialite Aided Thief

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 6

Mrs. Adelaide Perry, socially-prominent wife of a New York stockbroker, has been charged with having assisted…

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Court Order for Goods Disposal

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

CASINO, Wednesday.—At Casino Police Court today before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., an application by the Officer in Charge of the N.E.I…

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Remanded on Charge of Stealing £2012

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday. — On a charge of stealing £2012 from the Carlton Hotel, Joyce Walsh (19), a clerk, pleaded not guilty in the…

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Rent Halved by Magistrate Casino Cafe Lease

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday.—Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., at Casino Police Court, this morning, gave his reserved decision in the case in which Sidney…

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Police Road Safety Campaign

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 3

Motoring organisations express satisfaction at the police decision to resume their full safety campaign, but appeal to the police chiefs not…

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Six Police At Lismore

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 4

Only six members of the staff were on duty or available for duty at the Lismore Police Station yesterday. The strength…

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Lismore Girl In City Court

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 17-year-old girl claimed at the Central Court to-day that she had been talked into becoming a…

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Nullum. Farewell to Magistrate

Northern Star · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 6

MULLUMBIMBY, Friday.—Opportunity was taken by Mr. H. Hungerford and Sgt. W. Harrower, on behalf of the legal fraternity and…

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Assault Case At Mullumbimby

Tweed Daily · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 6

At Mullumbimby Police Court on Wednesday before Mr A. J. Bryant, PM, Henry Robert Bower, farmer, residing at…

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Doctors Charged with Mass Murder

Northern Star · Monday 28 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—Three doctors connected with a German asylum in Sax[?]ny in 1940 are being charged with having murdered 445…

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