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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 5

Yesterday, before the P.M., William Irons was charged with refusing to pay for liquor at Egan's Freemason's Hotel, and was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment…

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Mental Disease and Murder

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 3

It is rarely that one takes up a newspaper without seeing the account of some brutal revolting murder committed by these individuals (lunatics)…

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Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1903 · page 7

Grafton, Monday, before the P.M. William Irons, on remand, pleaded guilty to refusing to pay for liquor supplied at the Freemasons' hotel. The…

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Sessions and District Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1903 · page 4

As mentioned in our last, His Honor Acting-Judge Armstrong will preside at the Quarter Sessions to be holden at Grafton, commencing on…

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A Problem for the Police

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

An American correspondent gives the following as an example of the rigid formality with which the officials in some parts of Russia act :—…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1903 · page 5

At Grafton, yesterday, before Mr, W. Marsh, J.P. Frank Manning, ll years of age, was charged with stealing a rifle, pistol, and…

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The "C. and R. Examiner." Established 1859. Published on TUESDAYS and Saturdays. Grafton: 7Th February, 1903. Inspector-Generalship of Police

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1903 · page 4

Mr. Edmund Fosbery completed 50 years of Police service yesterday. He is to retire from the position of Inspector-General at once, and the question of his successor is…

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Alleged Theft

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1903 · page 1

At the Grafton police Court on Friday, before Mr. W. Marsh, J. P., Frank Manning, 11 years of age, was charged with stealing a rifle, a, pistol, and seven…

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Maclean Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 3

ON Friday, before the P.M. Two residents of Harwood pleaded guilty to a charge of riotous behaviour, and were each fined 10s and 7s costs…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 4

Yesterday, before the P.M. Francis Manning, 11 years of age, on remand, was charged with entering the premises of A. T. Kimpton, Prince-street, and…

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Police Rules

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 4

New rules for the general government and discipline of the members of the police force of the State appear in the "Gazette." The police will be strictly impartial in the…

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Outrages, Fatalities and Accidents. The Westralian Murder

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 3

WHILE a young lady, aged 18, was proceeding homeward at Chippendale at 9 o'clock on Thursday night, she was set upon by a cowardly Russan, who knocked her down and brutally…

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The Inspector General of Police

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2

IT was recently announced that Mr. Edmund Fosbery, C.M.G., Inspector-General of Police, contemplated retiring from the office. Since then the names of several officers connected with…

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Alleged Shooting Incident. The Police Fired At

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 3

WE are informed a man who was suspected of killing cattle at Lawrence was accosted by the police in the bush near the Traveller's Best yesterday, and that he fired at the officers, who…

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Sentenced to Life

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1903 · page 1

Wm. Hooper, a young grandson of Brigham Young, was sentenced to penal servitude for life, for murdering his paramour in New York…

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Police Court. ON Monday, before the P.M. LARCENY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1903 · page 5

Thomas Cook, William Mamon, and William Anderson, on remand, were charged with stealing, in company, one set of harness, the…

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Innocent Men Charged. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 February 1903 · page 1

The case in which Michael Hickey was charged with assaulting and robbing John Thompson, broke down at the Sessions to-day, owing…

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The Auburn Tragedy. Police Court Proceedings. Jones Arrested

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 4

HENRY JONES, the man wanted in connection with the murder of Constable Long, at Auburn, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in a house at Ultimo…

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New Police Rules

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 3

NEW rules for the general government and discipline of the members of the police force of the State in lieu of those published in a supplementary Government GAZETTE of January 7, 1885…

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The Auburn Murder

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 8

Considerable excitement was aroused in the city on Tuesday when it became known that Henry Jones, the man for whom the police have been anxiously searching for some time…

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