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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

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Grafton Land Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1903 · page 5

The following were amongst the cases dealt with at Grafton last week:—The homestead selection of T. W. Gilbert, 108½ acres, Taloumbi, was confirmed…

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A Lismore Medico in Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1903 · page 6

A CASE of peculiar interest occupied the recent Lismore District Court. The parties were Dr. F. G. Connor, who sued Alfred Jenner, a farmer at…

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Maclean Court. on Friday, before the P.M. Unregistered Dairies

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1903 · page 2

John Barry was charged with supplying milk to a butter factory, he not being on the register of dairymen. Defendant pleaded guilty. Inspector Johnson said defendant had been…

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Police Courts. GRAFTON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 December 1903 · page 8

ON Monday, before the P.M. Two first offenders were each fined is or the rising. Joseph O'Brien, for drunkenness…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. Michael Ryan was fined 20s or seven days for being drunk and disorderly, and for using indecent language he was fined 40s…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 December 1903 · page 5

At Grafton yesterday, before Mr. Lewis Jacobs, J.P., John Berry, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 2s 6d or 24 hours…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 December 1903 · page 5

On Saturday, before Mr. L. Jacobs, J.P. William Sherback, for using indecent language, was lined 40s or one month. Yesterday, before the P.M. and Mr. L…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1903 · page 4

ON Monday before the P.M. and Mr. L. Jacobs, J.P. Timothy Carey, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was lined £1 or 7…

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Grafted Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 18 December 1903 · page 8

On Monday, before the P.M. and Mr. L. Jacobs, J.P. Timothy Carey and William Smith were each fined £1 or seven days for being drunk and…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. Patrick Dougherty, an old age pensioner, was fined 5s or 24 hours for drunkenness, and forfeiture of one instalment of his…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 4

At Grafton on "Thursday, before the P.M. A first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 1s or the rising. Henry Reid was arrested on warrant,…

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Electoral Revision Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 2

An Electoral Revision Court was held at Grafton on Tuesday, before the Police Magistrate. About 20 names were added to the roll, and 141 names were expunged…

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Local and General. Police Items

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 21 December 1903 · page 2

Constable Pye, of South Grafton, is being removed to Acacia Creek on the Queensland border. Constable Gu[?]hrie, of Chatsworth, has been promoted to the rank of senior-constable…

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Hyde Park Murder

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

AT the Central Police Court, Sydney, last week, Thomas Henry Cooper was charged with being an accessory before the fact to the murder of an infant by Josephine Hunter in Hyde Park…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

At Grafton, yesterday, before the P.M., Messrs. L. Jacobs, H. Maxted and C. Duggan, J's.P., Verdicts for plaintiffs were entered in…

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Small Debts Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

The Maclean Municipal Council obtained verdicts as under for rates, with 5s costs in each case:—H. Dwarte 11s 6d, William Bateman 14s 8d, James Carr 14s 8d, William Clare £1 15s…

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Police Courts. GRAFTON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 4

ON Monday before the Police Magistrate, Messrs Jacobs, Maxted and C. Duggan. J. T. M'Kittrick versus James…

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Bowra Police Court

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 2

ON December 10, before the Hon. E. A. Pery, P.M. John Dotti and John Dotti, Jun., appeared, under arrest, to answer to a charge of inflicting grievious bodily harm on Barbin,…

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Experienced Magistrate

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 7

A man recently complained to the magic rate at the Thames Court that he had been "done" over the purchase of a pony, which, on reaching home, "turned dead lame."…

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Remarkable Murder in Paris

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 6

THE murder of M. Gouffe, of Paris, to which reference was made in a cablegram last week, was one of the most remarkable in the annals of crime on…

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