Full Court on Gambling. Sydney, Thursday Night
While dealing with a betting appeal case before the Full Court to-day, Justices Darley, Pring, and Owen made strong comments on the failure of Parliament to deal with the…
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Courts & crime, 1906
601 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 31
Grafton Police Court
On Tuesday before the P.M. An order was made prohibiting publicans and others from supplying Henry Wall, of South Grafton, with spirituous liquors for a…
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At Maclean on Friday, before the P.M. W. O'Connor v. W. Mansfield, claim of £18 18s. Verdict for amount and 5s costs. Alexander Jardine, for disobeying a…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The High Court to-day upheld the decision of the Full Court. The matter was an appeal from the decision of the Full Court discharging a rule nisi for…
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William John Payne, described, as a journalist, was sent to gaol to-day for six months for forging and uttering a cheque for thirty shillings…
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Fifty prisoners in the Shanghai gaol, armed with swords and tools, attempted to escape. One prisoner was shot dead and several others…
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Yesterday, before the P.M. A first offender for drunkenness was fined 1s or the rising. Frederick James Murphy sued George…
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On Monday, before Mr. E. C. Bishop and D. Shearer, J's.P. John Davis, for drunkenness, was fined 10s; in default, 7 days in Grafton gaol…
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On Friday, before the P.M. Q. W. Auston, license of the Argyle hotel, Maclean, was charged with having, on the 16th April, supplied liquor to a porson io a state of…
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An extraordinary murder was committed in the Rue St. Maure, Paris, in the most mysterious circumstances, last month. The victim was a morocco leather…
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On Monday, before the P.M. A first offender was fined 1s, or the rising for being drunk in Skinner-St., South Grafton on the 5th May at…
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On Monday before the P.M. Frederick J. Murphy v. George Barnier. This was a claim for £2 16s 8d for wages for work done. Mr. S…
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At the Ivanhoe Hotel, Manly, last night, Win. Rootes, a laborer, aged 24, fired three revolver shots at bis wife, Mary, aged 22, who was employed at the hotel as a…
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LANGLEY v. Foster.— An appeal from a decision of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in its Equity juris liction, in a suit for specific performance of contract in regard to…
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On Tuesday, before the P.M. George Friar was summoned for riotous behaviour in Abbott-st., South Grafton, on April 28th. Defendant denied the charge…
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A domestic tragedy occurred at Manly on Tuesday night. A young married man named William Rookes fired three shots at his wife, severely wounding her. He then…
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In Banco on Tuesday, before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Darley, Mr. Justice Cohen, and Mr. Justice Pring, re J. B. Fennessy (J. M'Quade and another…
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The discovery of serious defalcations by the late Charles Speir, formerly a leading member of the Standard .Oil Trust, has occasioned the belief that…
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Yesterday, bofore the P.M. Two first offenders, for drunkenness, were fined 1s each or the rising. Joseph S. Nobbs was charged with…
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On Friday, before the P.M. and Mr. G. Geddes. J.P. Martin v. Con, Lec, alias Spud Murphy, alias Con. Tracy, surety of the peace or…
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