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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

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The Police Service. Report to be Published

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—It is expected that the report upon which the Inspector-Generad of Police has been engaged upon dealing with the Police Service, will…

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Grafton Police Court. Saturday, June 1. (Before Mr. H. Malone, P.M.)

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 June 1912 · page 2

Martin Maloney, 20 Henry Black, 50, and William Anderson, 28, were each ordered tp pay 5s or take 24 hours' gaol for drunkenness…

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BURGLARS v. Police. a Melbourne Affray. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 June 1912 · page 3

Three criminals, one of whom is believed to be one of the masked burglars from Sydney, robbed a ware-house in Griffin Lane,…

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Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 2

At the local [?]olice Court on Saturday, before Mr. H. Malone, P.M., William Brown did not appear in answer to a charge of drunkenness at South Grafton, and…

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The Masked Gang. Police Bewildered

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A mysterious letter, purporting to come from a member of the gang of masked burglars who until their recent departure for Melbourne…

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Grafton Police Court. Tuesday, June 4. (Before Mr. H. Malone, P.M.)

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 2

Patrick Ryan and Joseph O Dea were fined " 5s and 10s . respectively (in default 24 hours and 3 days) for being drunk. Fines paid…

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Latest Wires. Windsor Murder. Jones on Trial. Insanity Defence Upheld. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 3

At the Criminal Court to-day, William Joseph Jones, a middle-aged coach painter, was charged with murdering his wife, Amelia Margaret,…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1912 · page 2

At the local Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. H. Malone, P.M., Patrick Ryan was fined 5s or 24 hours on a charge of drank[?]ss. On a similar charge, Joseph…

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Thrice Sentenced to Death

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 3

An Arab bandit named Labane has had the unique experience of being sentenced to death three times and to hard labor for life eleven times. He has…

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Grafton Police Court. Thursday, June 6. (Before Mr. H. Malone, P.M.)

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 4

John Dunn, for using vile language in New-street, South Grafton, was ordered to pay £5 or be imprisoned in Grafton Gaol for two months…

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Latest Wires. Cadets Charged. Several Injured by a Taxi. SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 5

As a company of cadets was drilling in Park road, Randwick, last night a taxi cab; travelling at a fast speed, dashed into them,…

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Driver Before the Court. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 5

At the Police Court to-day, Alfred William Andrews, 24, the driver, of the taxi cab which injured a, number of cadets last night, was charged…

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Grafton Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 June 1912 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. H. Malone, P.M., a young man named John Holmes was fined 5s or 21 hours for insobriety…

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The Windsor Murder

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1912 · page 2

THE hearing of the Windsor murder case was concluded in Sydney on Tuesday morning before Mr. Justice Pring. The daughter of…

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Maclean Police Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1912 · page 3

On Friday before the P.M., Prohibition orders were granted against John Shaw and James H. Thompson…

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Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1912 · page 2

At the local Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. Malone, P.M., John Michael Malone and John Smith were fined 1s or the rising of the court for insobriety…

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Grafton Police Court Monday, June 10. (Before Mr. H. Malone, P.M.)

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1912 · page 3

John Smith, John Michael Maloney, and Alfred Brown, for drunkenness, were ordered to pay 1s each or take the rising." The former had been…

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Police Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 13 June 1912 · page 4

The hearing of the adjourned case against Edward Murphy of Woolgoolga, for alleged cutting of timber on Crown lands without a license, was concluded before Mr…

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The Court House

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 June 1912 · page 2

After a few preliminary spare and the letting off of a little st[?] the meeting that had been convened by the Coff's Harbor J.P.'s…

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Is Killing No Murder. Unionists and Insurance. Act

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 June 1912 · page 3

Let the nation judge the Tory Party by what the Tories are working to do in the matter of the Insurance Act. The Act is to come into operation…

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