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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 2

"OLD LOS ANGELES": Tonight at the Star Court Theatre, the dynamic western drama "Old Los Angeles" will head the programme. A splendid…

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No Police Move Yet on Alleged Coffin Mix-up

Northern Star · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — A senior police officer said today that the police would not Investigate an alleged mix-up of two coffins at…

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Attempted Murder Charge

Tweed Daily · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday: The brother of a bride was charged with attempted murder after a shot had been fired during a…

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3 Youths Charged with Car Thefts

Northern Star · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Sydney jockey, Neville Sellwood, and exjockey Ted McMenamin were the victims of an organised gang of car…

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Shot at Bride's Father-In-Law, Brother Charged

Northern Star · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday. — After a shot had been fired at a wedding reception at Geelong last night, a brother of the bride was charged…

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Girl Fined for Clothing Theft

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 2

At Coolangatta Court yesterday morning, before Messrs A. Black and W. F. Higgins, J's.P., Annie Elizabeth Campbell, 22. domestic,…

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Police and Partisans Clash in Milan

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 5

ROME, Monday. — More than 20 were injured during a two hour fiftht between former partisans and police in Milan…

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Court Protest by Dr. Fenton

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1

DARWIN, Monday: "Until it is proved that did commit these alleged offences, it is the…

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Three in Court over Greyhound

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 2

LISMORE, Monday: In Lismore Court of Petty Sessions today three men appeared on charges arising out of the…

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Police Search for 8-Year-old Girl

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—At midnight to-night, police had intensified a search for an eight-year-old girl, Elsie Cordwell, who had been…

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Three in Court on Dog Case

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 4

Three men appeared in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on charges arising out of the…

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Mrs. O'keefe's Case Opened in High Court

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday: If Mrs Annie O'Keefe were now within the power of the Immigration Act, there was no judicial power conferred on the Minister for Immigration or his officers by the Constitution, Mr R. R…

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French Officers Charged With Treason

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 5

PARIS, Tuesday (AAP). — A French Army major was charged and taken to gaol after being arrested yesterday for allegedly…

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Police Search for Missing Witness

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: The tracing of Ainslie Aubyn Kings ford, missing witness in the New Guinea timber case, was a matter…

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Southport Court £200 Of Traffic Breaches

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 2

Fines totalling £20010 were inflicted on 32 offenders against the traffic regu[?]ations at Southport…

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Argument in High Court; O'Keefe Case

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The case for the Commonwealth would rest on whether Mrs O'Keefe was a migra[?]t within the meaning of the Immigration Act on January 16, 1947, Mr J. B. Tait, K.C., told the full High Court today…

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Murder Victims Burned in Acid

Northern Star · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Reporting that Scotland Yard detectives have now decided that Mrs. Durand-Deacon was murdered, the "Daily Mail" says that they have decided also that her murderer disposed of…

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Sister-in-law to Face Intended Murder Charge

Northern Star · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — A woman had sent her sister-in-law chocolates impregnated with lethal quantities of strychnine, it was…

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Secondhand Dealer Charged

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 2

"This prosecution has not been brought for the purpose of putting a mark against Quirk, but to protect him from…

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Remand at Ballina on Stealing Count

Northern Star · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 4

BALLINA, Thursday.—Charged at Ballina Court of Petty Sessions with allegedly stealing bicycle parts valued at £8, the property of C…

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