Murder and Suicide. Act of Demented Woman. Melbourne
Mrs. J. Barraclough, wife of a settler at Mildura, Victoria, became demented early yesterday morning and shot dead two of her five children with a pea rifle. She…
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Courts & crime, 1916
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Sentenced for Embezzlement. Perth
Murray Bidwell, late accountant to the Claremont Municipality of West Australia has been sentenced to three and a half years' hard labor for the embezzlement of £536, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crimes. Shooting Affray. Charge of Attested Murder. Auckland
Two men who returned with a motor car to a garage at Auckland last night had a dispute with the caretaker, with the result that one of them was shot through the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Police Court. Monday, 11th SEPTEMBER, 1916. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., and Mr. Thompson, J.P.)
An application was made by the police for the treatment of a patient in a hospital for the insane. After hearing the evidence of Sergeant Calman, Drs. Henry and Anderson,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grafton Police Court. Monday, September 11
Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., and Mr. A. Thompson, J.P. A person (male) deemed to be insa[?]e was on certificates from Drs…
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In the Licensing Court, before Messrs. J. Shropshire and W. J. Hawthorne, L.M. an application was made to have the license off the Bluff Hotel, on the Coramba road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brutal Assault. Diagre [?] To a Came of Two-up."
An animals most brutal and cowardly [?] may yet become a tragedy as [?] Morgan lies at the Gra[?] Hospital as a result of…
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John Kemphen Ward, Michael Ryes, [?] and Roy Ro[?] appears before Messrs. A. K. Long and [?] Mo[?]han, J's.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court. Tuesday, September 12. Before Mr. J L. Shropshire, P.M., and Mr. W. J. Hawthorne, J.P. the Bluff License
Arthur Edward Bond was summoned to show cause why his license of the hotel premises at the Bluff, 18 miles from South Grafton, on the Coramba…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coff's Harbor Court. Inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm
Before Messrs. Monahan and Long, J's.P., yesterday, John Kemp, John Ward, Michael Ryan, Edwin Eather, and Roy Robins were charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ulmarra Police Court
Yesterday, before Messrs. F. Turnbull and G. McFarlane, J 's.P., Patrick Sullivan was charged with being drunk and disorderly the previous day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coff's Harbor Assault Case. Man Brutally Maltreated. Five Men in Gaol Awaiting Trial
The five men who were arrested at Coff's Haibor, in connection with the Boambee Beach assault case on Sunday, 3rd September, were brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglary. Queensland M.P. Suffers. Melbourne
Burglars entered a boarding-house at East Melbourne and relieved the occupants of money' and jewellery valued at £200. Mr. Corser, M.H.R., was one of the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Housebreakers Charged. Sydney
Robert Geoghegan (34) and Patrick Clancy (29) were committed for trial on an alleged charge of breaking into the house of Samuel Riley, at Surry Hills, and stealing a safe with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bank Note Forgeries. Two More Men Charged. Sydney
Davis Goldstein (aged 24) and Louis Goldstein (aged 27) were brought up at the Central Police Court and charged in connection with the bank note forgeries. Both were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killing the Fair Rents Court
It was to be expected (says the "Catholic Press") that the landlords would discover a method of combating the Fair Rents Act. O'Connell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coff's Harbor Court. Thursday, September 14, 1916. (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M.)
John Kemp, Roy Edwin Eatlher, and three others, on remand on a charge of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on one Hugh Morgan, of Coff's Harbor, on Sunday; 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Occurrence. Murder and Suicide. Melbourne
While working in her garden at North Wangaratta, Victoria, at 9 o'clock this morning, Mrs. McCormick, 52, was, it is supposed, shot and killed by William Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Probate Jurisdiction
In the Will of WILLIAM HARMAN, late of Grafton, formerly of Blaxland's Creek, near South Grafton, in the State of New South Wales, Farmer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Police Court. Monday, 18th SEPTEMBER. (Before, Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M.)
Arthur Morgan pleaded guilty to drunkenness and was fined 5s or 24 hours hard labour in Grafton Gaol. WITHOUT LIGHTS…
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