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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

921 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 47

Woman Before Court. Charge of Embezzlement. Big Deficiences Found. Accused Committed. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1918 · page 2

Muriel Barrett, aged 21, and described as a clerk, appeared at the Police Court to-day charged with embezzling £20 odd the property of her…

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Grafton Police Court Three Months for Vagrancy

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1918 · page 4

Edmund Murphy, who pleaded guilty on Friday, before Mr. F. Vaughan, J.P., to a charge of not having sufficient visible means of support and was, on the…

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Alleged Murder. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1918 · page 2

Parsice Beniamino, an Italian, was arrested at Bunbury, W.A., on a charge of murdering Frederick Stidworthy, who was stabbed in the stomach. Accused was…

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Grafton Police Court. Monday, July 22. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.m.) Straying Stock

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1918 · page 2

Laura Robinson, Herbert Gear, and John Palmer pleaded guilty to charges of having allowed stock to stray in the municipality, and were each fined 5 with 6…

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Shooting Case. Walter Grant Charged. Alleged Intent to Murder. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1918 · page 4

At the Central police court, walter Grant was charged with shooting at Detective Thornley with intent to murder him. Grant and William Taylor were…

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Grafton Police Court Tuesday, July 23. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1918 · page 4

George Lattimore for drunkenness was fined 10 or seven days' hard labor in Grafton Gaol. Leslie Joseph Franklin, also known as…

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Grafton Police Court. Monday, 22nd JULY, 1918. Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 24 July 1918 · page 2

Laura Robinson, Herbert Gear and John Palmer were proceeded against by the Grafton Municipal Inspector for allowing stock to stray, and were each…

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A Major Charged. Alleged False Pretences. Cheap Kerosene. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1918 · page 5

When the cases of Major Reginald Pegus Cross and Bombardier Herbert William Aubrey Wedd, charged with alleged false pretences in connection with large…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 July 1918 · page 6

When the young man, Leslie Thompson, who was charged on Tuesday with being an idle and disorderly person, having insufficient lawful means of support,…

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The Police Magistrates

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 July 1918 · page 4

Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A., has received the following letter:--"Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice, Sydney, 19th July, 1918. Dear Sir,--In reply to…

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Mirbach's Murder. Social Revolutionaries Shot. Amsterdam

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 July 1918 · page 5

M. Tchitcherin informed the German Charge d'Affaires at Moscow that up to July 19 over 200 Left Social Revolutionaries who were implicated in the murder…

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Defrauding Railway Commissioners. Four Men Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 July 1918 · page 5

The hearing of a charge of alleged conspiracy to defraud the Railway Commissioners preferred against four men, John Warland, Frederick Cryer, Samuel York…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1918 · page 4

At the Court of Petty Sessions, Maelean, on Saturday, John Ernest Schipp was fined. 1O- or 7 days by Mr. E. T. Oram for being drunk and disorderly…

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Police Magistrates' Districts

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1918 · page 4

Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice, dated 25th July, 1918:--"In reply to your…

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Quarter Sessions and District Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1918 · page 4

The following cases are set down for hearing at the Quarter Sessions to be opened at Grafton this morning:-- Thomas James Lionel Michael, unlawfully…

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A Hospital Carnival. Matter Before the Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1918 · page 5

An ex parte application on beha[?] of the State Attorney-General was made to Mr. Justice Street for an order for the refund of £97, paid into the Parramatt[?]…

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Police Magistrates

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 31 July 1918 · page 3

Mr. G.S. Briner. M.L.A., has received the following communiontion from Acting Under Secretary Department of Justice:—In reply…

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Grafton District Court. Wednesday, July 30

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1918 · page 2

Before His Honor Judge Hamilton. On completion of the Quarter Session business, the civil list was gone on with in the District Court…

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Union Politics. an Individual Court Case. the Judge's Warning. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1918 · page 5

In the Industrial Court application was made on behalf [?] the Iron and Steel Industry Employees' Union of Newcastle for the appointment of assessors to act…

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Harris Will Case. an Appeal Lodged. to the Full Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1918 · page 3

The executors of the will of the late Sir Matthew Harris have lodged an appeal in the Full Court against the decision of Mr. Justice Street in favor of…

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