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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

746 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 38

Milk Carter Charged With Man's Murder

Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Detectives early today arrested a 22 years old man while he was delivering milk in Canley Vale, and charged him…

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Threat To Crown Witness Alleged By Police

Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police alleged in the Supreme Court to-day that a woman charged with a £1000 jewel robbery had threatened…

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Reinstatement of Wharf Official Ordered by Court

Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Arbitration Court today made an order for the reinstatement, of Vernon Cuthbert Alford,…

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Achilles-Comic Court Double Already Backed For £100,000

Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Doncaster-Sydney Cup double, Achilles and Comic Court, has already been backed for nearly £100,000, leading prepost book-makers said today…

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 2

"BRIMSTONE".—Tonight at the Star Court Theatre, Rod Cameron and Walter Brennan lead the cast in the exciting western drama,…

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Athlete Shot by Stater; Court Acquittal

Northern Star · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 10

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday (AAP-Reuter).—An athletics official, who fatally shot an athlete with his starter's pistol, was…

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Sydney Man Found Hanged in Gaol

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Twenty-seven year old Donald Stephen Harborne, who was wanted in Sydney for the alleged theft of…

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Unsafe To Be At Large; 14 Years Gaol

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A sentence of 14 years imprisonment was imposed on a man, described as "an uncontrollable and terrifying…

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Alleged Theft of Car

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 4

MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.—Police have detained a man at Murwillumbah over the alleged theft of a car at Currumbin on Monday…

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Court Dismisses Contempt Charge Against Williams

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The contempt of court charge against the President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Idris Williams) was dismissed by the Full Arbitration Court today…

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Dockers Stop While Leaders Attend Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—About 20,000 London, Manchester and Glasgow dockers stopped work today when seven leaders of the…

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Court Warning to Melbourne Press On Contempt

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A warning that there might be imprisonment instead of fines if the Melbourne newspapers continued…

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Commando "Cracksman" Back in Gaol

Northern Star · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 6

LONDON, "Wednesday (AAP).—As a cracksman. John Ramsay was at the top of his profession. That was why, on his release from a…

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Casino Mais Fined £5 for Wife Assault

Northern Star · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 9

CASINO, Wednesday.—"I don't like being called a—by anybody," was the explanation given by a man to Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M.,…

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Karangi to Start in Denham Court Hdcp

Northern Star · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—G. Podmore has been engaged to ride Karangi in the Denham Court Handicap at Randwick on…

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Before The Magistrate DRUNK

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 1

Eighteen-year-old Edward Charles Clarke, of Geneva Street, Kyogle, was fined 5- or imprisonment until the arising of the Court, when he was…

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 5

"MARY RYAN DETECTIVE"—Tonight at the Star Court Theatre, the comedy drama, "Mary Ryan Detective", will head the programme, with…

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Girl Kicked in Stomach, Police Say

Northern Star · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 5

PENRITH, Thursday.—"An hysterical loss of power of her legs, has developed in a six-year-old girl, a doctor told the…

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Arbitration Court To Have Power to Enforce Decisions

Northern Star · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday.—A special bill to ensure the power of the Arbitration Court to enforce awards and decisions of industrial tribunals will be one of the first measures to be introduced by the Government…

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Former Police Guilty of Stealing Charges

Northern Star · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 4

A former Broadwater police constable was given a suspended sentence of six months hard labour at Ballina Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for stealing a rowing boat during the 1948…

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