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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
834 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 42
What's Crippen to us, [?]we to Crippen? The question is a variation of Hamlet's "What 's Hecuba to him, or he to [?]ba?" Crimes as bad occur the other side by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday last, before Mr. W. C. Rush, J.P., Joseph Cheers, drank, fined 10s or 48 hours. On Friday, before the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Predictions have been freely made by the lawyers that tho difficulty of convicting Crippen on circumstantial evidence is made greater by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday.—At the Central Criminal Court to-day. Edward Dicks a labourer, was charged with having committed a capital assault upon Noretha Sandell,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Yesterday before the P.M. Municipal Council v. B. O'Driscoll, for sanitary rates 13s. Verdict for amount and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Before the P.M., Mr. A. J. Piesley, on Friday. Maclean Municipal Council proceeded against B. O'Driscoll for 13s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The recent sittings of the Grafton Quarter Sessions further exemplified in a very pronounced fashion a highly-objectionable practice which seems to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'A sensational tragedy occurred at Bundaberg (Q.) yesterday. Constable John Irwin shot his wife and himself with a revolver and then…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the progress of the trial of the Bengali conspirators, at Dacca to-day two students drew revolvers in the courthouse, and fired at Sarat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday, before Messrs. D. McFarlane and Cleeve, J's.P. Thomas Dwyer, for drunkenness, was fined 5s or 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hawley Crippen and Ethel Le Neve were before the Bow Street Police Court on Tuesday, which was cleared of the public, except the accredited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →F. F. Shaw (through Mr. R. C. Law) pleaded guilty to a charge of being found on licensed premises--to wit the Grafton Hotel--after hours. Fined 20s,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Ritter v. Charles Bailey claim for £1 13s. Judgment for plaintiff by default, with 13s 9d costs and 10s for witnesses' expenses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the trial of, a man named Wlide who was re-arrested on leaving prison on a charge, of, murdering Mr. Storr, a wealthy contractor, the evidence showed that Wilde…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday, before the P.M. Richard McDougall Garland was charged with allowing a prisoner, to escape from lawful custody. Defendant, who pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday.—Near Barletta the cholera district is under marital law as a result of a clash of the Italian soldiers and thousands of starving peasants yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →James Henry Hancock, a hawker aged 5[?], was sentenced to death yesterday (says "Lloyd's News" on May 29) at Cambridge Assi[?]es for the murder of,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial of Walter Lovatt, aged 23, for murdering his wife, Edith Lily Lovatt, by shooting her with a revolver in the Bond Street wine bar, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Neil Fraser was charged with using, indecent language on 7th inst. Mr. S. W. Bowling appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty. Fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burglars entered the premises of Harry Lloyd, jeweller, in the Imperial Arcade, last night and secured booty valued at over £100. The robbery was…
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