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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1874

188 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 10

Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1874 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs T. Fisher and J.F. Wilcox, and A. Johnstone J.P.'s. DRUNKENNESS. Peter Hughes was brought before the Court, charged…

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Assize Court at Grafton

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1874 · page 2

PROCLAMATION by His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight Commander of the most distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George,…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 25 December 1874 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. T. Fisher, J.P. William Lowe was brought before the Court in custody charged with drunkenness, and having pleaded guilty was ordered to pay a fine of 10s…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. T. Fisher J.P. DRUNKENNESS. William Lowe was brought before the Court charged with drunkeness, and making use of obscene language in…

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Murderous Assault at Parkes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 2

The 'Parkes Gazette' reports that Cecilia Tomlinson was brought before the Court, charged with stabbing William Pennington, on Friday night, at Parkes. Constable…

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The Aldershot Murder

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 3

THOMAS Smith, a private of the 20th Hussars, was tried at the Central Criminal Court on October 28th for the murder of Captain J. D. Bird, of the same regiment, by shooting him at Aldershot. The main…

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Murder in Marylebone

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 3

AT the Marylebone Police Court, James Cranwell, aged fifty, it shoemaker, living at Grant James-street, Lissongrove, and who is stated to be over six feet in height, was charged before Mr. d'Eyncourt with…

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A Police Magistate on Magisterial Duties

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 6

AT the Uralla Police Court, on the 9th inst, as reported in the 'Armidale Express' a Chinaman was brought up, remanded from Maitland on warrant, on suspicion of being…

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Grafton Police Court. Monday. Before Messrs. T. Fisher and J. Purves, J.P.'s

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 2

Thomas Close and Robert Neal, were again brought up on the charge of abduction, but were discharged. A man named James Thompson, supposed to…

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