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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Son on Murder Charge

Northern Star · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. -- William James Marshall (23), no occupation, appeared at Redfern Police Court today charged with…

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For Trial on £2443 Jewel Theft Charge

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: Thomas Leonard Hull (24), navy cook, of Cornwall Street, Greenslopes, was committed for trial in the Summons Court today. on a charge of having stolen jewellery valued at £2442, the property of…

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Qld. Police Need Recruits

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: Queensland's undermanned Police Department is short of suitable recruits. Many more of the right…

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Squatters And Police Battle

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 6

HONGKONG, Monday: Hongkong police and Chinese squaters in the former walled city of Kowloon fought a pitched…

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New S.m. Likes North Coast: Court Welcome

Northern Star · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 4

Welcomed by representatives of the legal profession and the police on his first day on the bench in the Court of Petty Sessions at…

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Vagrant Sentenced at Casino

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 6

CASINO, Tuesday.--Michael Raymond Bourke, 21, labourer, was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour when he appeared before the…

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Film Star Charged With Drunkenness

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday: Dana Andrews, one of the stars of "The Best Years of Our Lives," pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge…

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Coolangatta Police Appointment

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 2

Sergeant M. Bergin at present stationed at Mitchell, has been appointed as officer in charge of the Coolangatta police district in…

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Police Relieved of Registry

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 5

CASINO, Tuesday.--The Department of Road Transport, in a letter at to-night's meeting of Casino Municipal Council, advised that…

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3 Months' Cm for Assault on New Year's Eve

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 5

BALLINA, Tuesday.--"This is a glaring case of unprovoked assault," the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. A. W. Buchanan) told Mr. A. W. Garrett…

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Arrested As Freed From Gaol

Northern Star · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Frank Munro, 59, electrical engineer, was arrested on a provisional warrant as he left Long Bay…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Northern Star · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

WEST WYALONG, Wednesday. -- Lloyd Fleming, 39, labourer, appeared in the West Wyalong Court to- day on a charge of murder and was…

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Proposed Site for Tweed Heads Police Buildings (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 5

Sir-- I notice in your columns that Tweed Shire Council and Tweed Heads Urban Committee both have sponsored a request for removal of the police…

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Car Stealing Charge Adjourned

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 2

Edward Kevin Hall, of Mount Warning Road, Uki, was further remanded for one month in Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge…

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Welcome To New Magistrate

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 2

Mr F. C. H. Tompson, who succeeds Mr W. C. Avery as Stipendiary Magistrate for the Lismore Circuit, was welcomed…

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Further Remand on Stealing Charge

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 5

Terence Doyle Maloney (42), of Murwillumbah, was further remanded to January 29 at Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions…

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£10 Fine For Spray Pump Theft

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

With a warning that if he came before him again he would be sent to jail immediately, Mr H. C. F. Tompson, SM, fined…

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Evacuating Missioners; Murder Risk

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Thursday: The evacuation by air of some 200 foreign missionaries, mostly American, who are marooned at a large missionary centre of…

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In Court After "Xmas Impulse"

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1

OAKLAND (California), Thursday: An Australian merchant seaman, John Wallace Sutherland, after a…

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Court Told of Japanese III-Treatment

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

HONGKONG, Thursday: The piteous condition to which Australian prisoners were reduced through starvation and ill-…

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