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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1904 · page 5

AT the Police Court on Tuesday, before the P.M. Denis Long was charged with stealing in or about the month of April last,…

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Police Court

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 16 September 1904 · page 2

AT the Bellingen Police Court, on Saturday last, before Mr. R. Page, J.P., a Sobraon lad, named Frederick Moore, was brought up, charged with absconding from the hired…

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Our Grafton Letter Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 16 September 1904 · page 5

ON Monday, before the P.M. John Barton, for being drunk and disorderly in the bur of the Post Office Hotel was fined 20s or seven days. —Jon Johnsen was fined 10s for being drunk…

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Material for Murder

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 16 September 1904 · page 3

IN order not to let the Japanese into Manchuria, and to expel them from Korea, not 10,000, but fifty and more thousands will, according to all…

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District Court

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 16 September 1904 · page 2

THE usual sitting of the Bellingen District Court was held on Friday last, commencing at 2 p.m., before his Honor Judge Heydon. The solicitors present were— Messrs. E. W…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1904 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P. M. Thomas Barton, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 20s or seven days. Albert Stevens v. Susan Penrose, claim…

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Murder of Missionaries. Loss of Many Valued Lives

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1904 · page 2

By the steamer Prinz Waldemar comes an account of a shocking massaere by natives in German New Guinea, the victims being ten German Catholic missionaries. Among…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1904 · page 4

On Saturday, before Mr. Fletcher, J.P. Edwin Shea, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined for or three days. Yesterday, before Messrs. C. Sandersand…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1904 · page 5

On Monday, before Messrs. Chas. Sanders and H. C. T. Maxted, J's.P. Charles Ilg was fined 10s or seven days for drunkenness…

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Drink Traffic and POLICE

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1904 · page 8

The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, speaking on Wednesday at the W.C.T.U. annual meeting in Sydney, said he believed that a great…

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Our Grafton Letter Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 5

ON Monday, before Mossrs C. Sanders and H. Maxted, [?] Charles [?] for drunkenness, was fined 10s or seven days; and for indecent language, [?]2, or one month.—A stranger, arrested at…

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Kempsey Court

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 2

IN the District Court a had named Ernest Booth sued the local Council for having broken his log on an alleged defective culvert. After some difficulty in selecting a…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. Denis Long, on bail, was charged with having, at Glenugie, on or about the month of April, 1904, stolen a red and…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 5

Yesterday; before the P. M. and Mr. L. Jacobs, J. P., Arthur Chadwick; denied to be insane, was. on certificates by Drs. Ventry Smith, and…

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Serious Assault on a Daughter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 3

John Peter Woods, sculptor, was charged at the Paddington Police Court with maliciously wounding his own daughter, Lucy Woods, aged 11. He appears to be a man…

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Bankruptcy Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 2

In the estate of Thomas Carroll, of Grafton, horse trainer, a single meeting was held on Wednesday. Bankruptcy was accounted for to pressure of a creditor, who…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 5

Yesterday before the P.M. Edward Shea was charged with stealing a truss, the property of John Glese Evidence was given by prosecutor and John Burn,…

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Grafton Police Court. On Monday, before the P.M.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 5

Edward Shea, an employee on the railway line, was charged with stealing a truss, the property of John Giese, Evidence was given to the effect that…

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Royal Foresters. Visit of Supreme Court Officers

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 4

The Royal Foresters of this district have taken Grafton practically to themselves this week, all other fixtures having been postponed or…

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Police Court

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 September 1904 · page 2

AT the Bellingen Police Court on Monday last, before the Hon. E. Pery, P.M., and Messrs. R. Page and L. Gordon, J's.P., John Moran was charged under the Polices Offences…

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