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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 4

On Thursday, before the P.M. Three first offenders were fined 1s, or the rising of the court, for drunkenness on the 18th instant…

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Police Changes

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 2

We are pleased to learn that Constable Percy Wood, of South Grafton has been promoted and at the end of this month will take charge [?]…

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Cost of High Court Appeals

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 2

During the course of the debate in the House of Representatives on the bill providing for increasing the number of Federal High Court judges to…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 4

On Saturday, before Mr. L. Jacobs, J.P. George'Thompson, of Sydney, wascharged, with using obseene language in Princestreet the previous evening, and was fined…

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Maclean Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 4

On Monday, before Messrs, Geo. Davis and F. Schwonberg, J.'sP., John. M'Inerney. was charged with the larceny of a bicycle lamp, valued at 16s, and was fined 20s or…

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Scientific Burglary

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 6

Successful burglary is no longer crude robbing, but an art. The only men who are able successfully to overcome the obstacles of the safemakers and locksmiths, and at…

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Maclean Courts. On Friday, before the P.M. Police Court

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 3

Patrick Joseph Driscoll was charged with using obscene language in Jameson-street, Maclean Heights. The evidence showed that a disturbance had occurred between the Driscoll and Carr families relative to the water from a…

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The German Creek Murder. How the Crime Originated

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 5

Young Brown tells a remarkable story of the origin of the murders at German Creek. "The whole thing," he says, "is the result of a secret society formed here to keep up…

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Ulmarra Police Court. Yesterday, before the P.M.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1906 · page 5

Hunter Gilbert was charged with rictus behaviour. Mr. D. J. Loh[?] for defendant pleaded guilty. Defendant was fined £1, witnesses…

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Wholesale Gold-stealing. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1906 · page 5

A sensational report has been main by Detective Cavanagh. Gold-tealing at Kalgoorlie, he alleges, is carried on to an enormous extent, reaching…

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

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1906 · page 8

Charles Rowles was fined 20s and 6s costs for using indecent language in Skinner-street, South Grafton, on the 18th instant…

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Our Police Magistrate

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 27 July 1906 · page 2

MR. Paton. C.P.S., received a message on Monday, stating that the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, Police Magistrate for the Macleas district, was still incapacitated by his recent accident…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1906 · page 3

On Thursday, before the P.M. Two first offenders were each fined 1s or the rising for drunkenness on the 25th instant…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1906 · page 5

Yesterday, before the P.M. A first offender, for drunkenness, was fined 1s or the rising. Ernest Matthew Hughes, on remand, was…

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Grafton Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1906 · page 8

On Monday, before the P.M. Clarence Fryer and Richard Watson were charged with, in company, assaulting George Simms and robbing…

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Warden's Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1906 · page 8

On Wednesday, before the P.M. The application of P. J. Cahill and others for permission to suspend labor on their gold leases in parish Mooney,…

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Children's Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1906 · page 8

On Tuesday and Wednesday, before the P.M. Daisy Violet Austen sued James B. Conroy for the maintenance of her…

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Licensing Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1906 · page 8

On Tuesday, before the P.M. The application of William Gale was struck out. The application of George Ellis for a…

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The Flemington Murder

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 3 August 1906 · page 3

THE spectacle of three or four hundred ruffians deliberately kicking a man to death while several thousands, with one or two exceptions,…

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Lawrence Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 August 1906 · page 4

On Thursday, before the P.M., the police proceeded against Francis Pearce, on a charge of supplying liquor to an aboriginal, Defendant pleaded guilty, and was…

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