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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1898

227 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 12

Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 8

On Thursday, before the P.M., Charles H. Harper for furious driving in Prince-street was fined 20s, and 10s for using obscene language…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. Thomas M'Grath was summoned for unlawfully assaulting Ah Hee. Mr. M'Guren for complainant; Mr. Lobban for defendant…

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Women in Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 4

Yesterday one of the counsel engaged in a in the Criminal Court was greatly hampered in his desire to elicit certain evidence of a medical nature by the presence of women in…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 5

Yesterday before the P.M. John Dennis was fined 20s for using indecent language and 10s for riotous behaviour on Saturday night…

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Maclean Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 5

YESTERDAY, before Messrs. D. See and A. Ross, J's.P. James Burke was charged with cutting timber on Crown lands at Yamba…

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The Magistrate's Bicycle

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 4

St. Groquet was a town of 4,000 inhabitations, totally lacking in all pleasurable diversions, and whose townspeople spent their time saying disagreeable things of each other, and minding…

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Assault and Jobbery. Critical Condition of the Victim. Arrest of the Offenders

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 6

Another addition has been made to the already long list of victims to highway robberies, which, though now less frequent than a few years back still occasionally occurs to menace life and…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 4

At Grafton on Tuesday, before the P.M. Janies Reardon, for drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged, and for using obscene language was fined 5s or 24 hours…

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Grafton District Court. This Court was opened on Wednesday. Undefended Cases

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 2

Verdicts were given for plaintiffs in the following cases:—W. Zietsch v. Humphrey O'Sullivan, £4; Norrie and M'Guren v. William D. Green, £2 9s 10d; same v. S…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1898 · page 5

Yesterday, before the P.M. Frederich Brandy was charged with using obscene language and riotous behaviour. Sergeant Duke Dean deposed that at 11.15…

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Burglary at Maclean

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1898 · page 3

ON Thursday night the secretary's office in the show ground, which had just been repaired and put in order for the approaching show, was burglariously entered. The door was broken open with portion of…

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Maclean District Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1898 · page 5
Also in The Clarence River Advocate

This court opened on Saturday, before His Honor Judge Coffey, and lasted only one hour. INTERPLEADER SUIT…

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Small Debts Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1898 · page 5

Yesterday before the P.M. Verdicts were given for plaintiffs in the following cases—George Fook v. Wy Long, £0 for money lent. P. Shea v. A. W. Cobb,…

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Grafton District Court. First Day—wednesday

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1898 · page 2

THE above Court was opened before His Honor Judge Coffey on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, In addition to the local solicitors, Messrs. Browning and Sheridan (barristers) were…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 4

Yesterday, before the P.M. An Indian, for his first appearance as an inebriate, was fined 5s. Henry James Smith, for drunkenness, was…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. and Mr. L. Jacobs, J.P. The following were fined 5s and 4s 10d costs for permitting stock to stray on the streets…

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Maclean Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 5

On Thursday, before the P.M., L. Daniels, licensee of the Britannia hotel, Chatsworth, was granted a permit for a booth at the Maclean Show…

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Maclean Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1898 · page 2

ON Thursday, before tho P.M. Police v. A. Boyd—Occupying Crown lands. This case had been postponed from a previous Court, to allow the defendant to remove the…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. Alfred Toole, for being drunk and disorderly at South Grafton, was admonished and discharged…

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