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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Grafton Police Court. MONDAY, 3rd. APRIL

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1911 · page 2

Before Mr. A. J. Piesley. P.M. Carl Andersen was charged with assaulting John Fraser. There being no evidence offered against…

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An Iowa Outrage. Unsuccessful Burglary. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1911 · page 3

Four men bound and gagged the County Treasurer in Iowa and then tried to dynamite a vault containing £20,000. The noise of the explosion…

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Circuit Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1911 · page 3

The Circuit Court opens in the Grafton Court House to-morrow morning. His Honor Mr. Justice Sly will preside. The associate is Mr. Baxter…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, 3rd APRIL

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1911 · page 2

Before Mr. A. J. Piesley. P.M. A. C. Adam sued N. R. Keog[?] for £14 16s 3d, being half cost of a fence alleged to be a boundary…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 April 1911 · page 4

Yesterday, before the P.M. Carl Anderson was charged with assault. Mr. Lobban submitted that prosecutor did not wish to press the charge, and accused…

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A Brutal Assault

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 April 1911 · page 6

Mr. Chas. Farrar, skin buyer and dealer, etc., well known in the Barmedman district, was the victim of a brutal outrage on Tuesday. Mr…

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Murder of a Count

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 April 1911 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—A Sardinian countess, Zola Deiltala, has been arrested at Sarsari, in the island of Sardinia, for complicity in the murder of her husband last…

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Alleged Stealing

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 2

Denis Long charged with stealing three horses, a dray, and three sets of harness, the property of Frederick Leech, on December 21, pleaded not…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 2

Ae the Quarterly Licensing Court held at the Court House on Monday afternoon, the following licenses were renewed : Henry G. E. Thompson,…

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Grafton Circuit Court. Tuesday, April 4

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 2

The Circuit Court opened yesterday morning, Mr. Justice Sly presiding in the scarlet robes of office. Mr. Baxter Bruce, B.A., L.L.B., Judge's…

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Anti-Chinese Riots. Police Badly Handled. London, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1911 · page 3

Alleged insults to a white woman, offered by a Chinese, resulted in anti-Chinese riots at Birkenhead, near Liverpool…

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Police Courts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 April 1911 · page 4

At Grafton yesterday, before the P.M., William R. Foley and John Black were each fined 5s or 24 hours for drunkenness. At Maclean on Monday, before Mr. Geo…

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Grafton Circuit Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 April 1911 · page 4

This Court was opened on Tuesday at 10 a.m., before His Honor Mr. Justice Sly. Mr. J. M. Sanders acted as Crown Prosecutor, and there were also present:—…

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Current News. Bellingen Police Court

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 4

On Wednesday, 5th April, before H. Boultwood, Esq., J.P., the case of E. P. Polin v.T.J. Maher was called. Mr.H. L. James appeared for…

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An Enraged Husband. Remarkable Assault Case

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 3

A commercial traveller named (Ernest Alfred Matthews, proceeded against Alex. McRae, at the Police Court, Sydney, on Monday on a charge of…

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The Fremantle Frauds. Town Clerk Sentenced. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 5

Samuel Thomas McMillan, late Town Clerk at Fremantle (W.A.), pleaded guilty, yesterday to having stolen four debentures of £500 each, the property…

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Grafton Police Court. Wednesday, April 5. Before Mr. A. J. Piesley, P.M.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 4

William R. Foley and John Black, on charges of drunkenness, were each fined 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment…

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The Whitton Horror. Two Lads Sentenced to Death Sydney, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 5

At the Hay Circuit Court, William Francis Millar (17) and Reginald Clare (17) were charged with the murder of Mrs. Sarah Warby at Billinbah…

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Supreme Court of U.S. "No Appeal Except to the Almighty."

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 8

The Chief Justice of the United States bulks largely in the public eye because he is the head of the Supreme Court of the Republic,…

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Grafton Circuit Court. Civil Cases. Wednesday, April 5. Before Mr. Justice Sly. a Claim for Commission

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 8

Thomas Henry Jolly sued the Cooper Engineering Company, of Sydney, to recover the sum of £40 11s 2d, as commission alleged to be due on…

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