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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

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Clergyman Charged With Perjury

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 June 1902 · page 4

AT Orange Police Court last week the Rev. Mathew Walker, of the Australian Church, was charged with perjury. Some time ago a verdict was obtained against him for damages for…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 14 June 1902 · page 5

At the Grafton Police Court, on Wednesday, a first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 1s or the rising. Yesterday, before the P.M. and Mr. C…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 June 1902 · page 5

At Grafton yesterday, before the P.M., A first offender for drunkenness was fined 1s or the rising. Elizabeth Elder v. Jos. Connelly, claim of…

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A Court Sensation. Remarkable Story. Drugged and Married

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 June 1902 · page 8

At the Darlinghurst Sessions on Wednesday, before Judge Docker, Mary Ann Heine pleaded guilty to a charge that on June 16, 1866, at Singleton, she married…

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Lawrence Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 20 June 1902 · page 5

YESTERDAY, before the P.M., and Mr. P. Drummond, J.P. Freeman Eglington v. George Parnell, language by which a breach of the pease may have been…

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Grafton Licensing Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 4

Yesterday before the P.M. and Mr. W. J. Hawthorne, J.P. Renewals of Hotel licenses were granted to W. McMahon, Commercial hotel,…

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Retirement of a Police Officer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 2

Sergeant Tysoe, of South Grafton, is retiring from the police force on a fall pay pension. He joined the force about 30 years ago, and after brief eervice at…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 June 1902 · page 3

ON Friday, before the P.M. and Mr W. J. Hawthorne, J.P., Mrs Gillespie pleaded guilty to assaulting the matron of the Benevolent Asylum, and also to…

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Sentenced to Five Years. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 June 1902 · page 1

John Cutler, who was convicted on a charge of assaulting a girl, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, the judge declaring the prisoner had…

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Shocking Outrage by Miners on Strike. Anarchy and Murder. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 June 1902 · page 1

THE minors at Williamstown (Virginia) struck work. Twenty-five men refused to quit work, whereupon the strikers threw dynamite down the…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 June 1902 · page 4

At Grafton on Saturday, before tbe P.M. Robert Young, a stranger, from Katoomba, was fined 5s or 24 hours for drunkenness in Fitzroy-street on Friday afternoon, and 20s…

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Bellingen Police Court. Monday, June 23. Before the Hon. E. A. Pery, P.M., Messrs. H. A. Evans and R. Page, J's.P

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 27 June 1902 · page 5

T. LYNCH, arrested for drunkenness, was remanded till Wednesday, not being in a fit state to be discharged. M. Coghlan pleaded guilty to using…

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Tenders for Gaol Supplies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1902 · page 5

The tender of J. C. Gunnell, of Mudgee, has been accepted for supplies for Grafton gaol. Thc following are the contract prices for the principal articles—Bread 1¾d…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1902 · page 4

Yesterday, before the P.M. and Mr. C. Sanders, J. P. A renewal of publican's license was granted to Mrs. Roche, Holmsten's Family…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 30 June 1902 · page 2

ON Friday, before the P.M. and Mr. C. Sanders, J.P. Frederick Waghorn and Martha Waghorn appeared on summons,charged…

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Maclean Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1902 · page 2

On Wednesday, a [?]ad named Sydney Glaze was charged with, absconding from the hired service of his master, who resided up the river. On agreeing to return he was discharged to the…

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Murder and Cannibalism

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 4 July 1902 · page 6

THE following gruesome tale appeared in the STREET, as told by An old miner, descriptive of prospecting in Now Guinea:—" A party of three white men (Champion, King and M.Laren) with…

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Evading the Police

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 4 July 1902 · page 4

A YOUNG fellow named Carroll escaped from Narrabri gaol some three months ago, and on Sunday night Constable Dalton got, as he supposed, very close to him, firing a shot…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 July 1902 · page 5

At Grafton on Thursday, before Mr. W. Marsh. J.P., Thomas Casey, for drunkenness in Skinner street, South Grafton, was fined 2s 6d or three…

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Daring Burglary. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 July 1902 · page 1

A burglar entered a fruit shop at Brunswick (Victoria) this morning. On being chased by a man named Williams, who lodged on the premises, the…

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