Federal Police
In Federal political circles the Commonwealth Police Force is now looked upon as something in the nature of a nine days' wonder. Whether or not the…
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Courts & crime, 1918
921 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 47
Alleged Stealing. of Railway Property. Sydney
Two railway employees, Fredrick Mepstead and Joseph Walton, were committed for trail on a charge of stealing property belonging to the Railway Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prejudicing Recruiting. Percy McDONALD Sentenced. Sydney
Percy McDonald, an anti-conscription speaker, who described himself as the secretary of the National Society of Returned Soldiers and Sailors, was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grafton Police Court Monday, January 21. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M.)
George Thomas Smith was summoned on a charge under the Cattle Slaughtering and Diseased Animals Act. Inspector Lyons stated that when he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft of a Racehorse
There was a buzz, of excitement at Gunning last week. It appears that early on Sunday morning the racehorse Martron, the property of Messrs. Taylor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conspiracy Charges. Broken Hill Cases. Six Men Sentenced. Broken Hill
During the hearing of a case in which six men were charged at Broken Hill, with raiding a Proprietary mine, Joseph Stacey, one of the accused, giving evidence in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Police Court. Monday, January 21, 1918. Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M. Stray Pigs
Police v. George Thomas Smith. Defendant, who was represented by Mr. R. D. Bawden, pleaded guilty to a charge of allowing pigs to run at large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempted Murder. and a Case of Suicide. Melbourne
On Saturday mgnt, J. Butt, a contractor, visited Rutherglen, Victoria, and went, to the house of a Mrs.Strahan and fired two shots, evidently at the woman, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hospitals Art Union. Police and Firemen's Carnival
A meeting was held on Saturday night of members of the sub-committee, appointed by the Grafton Hospital Committee on Thursday night, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. Alleged Burglary. Sydney
George Harris, 54, was remanded at the Police Court on a charge of breaking and entering the shop of Vincent McAuley, George-street West, and stealing four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia. Murder of Cadet Leaders. London
"The Times" Petrograd correspondent states the Red Guards murdered Shingarieff and Kokoshkien, former members of Kerensky's Government, while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wilful Murder. Young Woman Shot. Brisbane
A report from Townsville spates a young woman named Gertrude Dillon was found with a bullet wound in the head near the western breakwater on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Sheep Stealing. a Glen Innes Committal. Glen Innes
At the Police Court to-day Michael Joseph Hanley, of Glencoe, was committed for trial at the Glen Innes Court of Quarter Sessions to he held on February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder of Cadet Leaders. Lenin Making Inquiries. London
Reuter's Petrograd correspondent states that Lenin is personally inquiring into M. Shingareff's murder, and has ordered the arrest of the assassins, fearing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court
At the local Police Court on Monday morning last, the adjourned case Gates versus Johnston, was heard before Messrs. P. T. Stennett and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft of Jewellery. Sydney
Gertrude McPhee was charged at the Police Court with stealing a pair of spectacles, a diamond brooch, and other articles of jewellery, valued at £60, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stealing From North Coast Company. Two Men Fined. Sydney
Ernest Hampson and William Reay were convicted at the Police Court, the former with having stolen a bag containing 701bs of sugar, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →President of Coal Court. Sydney
The oGvernment has decided to appoint Mr. Justice Edmunds as President of the Coal Court, which will be established for carrying out the Government's conciliation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seizure of "Hansard." Case Before the High Court. Mr. Ryan's Application. Granted by Mr. Justice Powers. Sydney
The alleged seizure by the Commonwealth Government of copies of the Queensland "Hansard," and the incidental litigation between the State and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Traitors. Two Women Sentenced to Death. Paris
At Nantes a court-martial sentenced to death two women. Manuela Alvarez and Hictorine Fauther, also Pelissier, an army deserter, who was not…
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