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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1922

1,353 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 34 of 68

Telegrams. Theft From House. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1922 · page 2

Thieves made a haul of £150 worth of property, including many wedding presents, at the residence of Thomas Mullins, at Epping, during the week-end…

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Coff's Harbor Police Court. (Before Messrs. W. T. Jerry and C. Walker, J's.P.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1922 · page 1

At the Coff's Harbor Police Court on Saturday morning Martin Morrissey and Cornelius Sullivan were proceeded against by the police on several charges as the…

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Wages of Men and Women. Industrial Court's Finding. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1922 · page 5

Refusing to assist the claim that women's wages should follow men's in any particular relation, irrespective of merits, Judge Rolin, with Judge Beeby, and Mr…

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QUEENSLAND The Mackay Murder Case. Mysterious Brain Affection. Application to Reduce Wages. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 May 1922 · page 5

The Court of Criminal Appeal, Chief Justice McCawley and Justices Macnaughton and O'Sullivan, to-day gave its reserved judgment in the appeal by George…

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Grafton Police Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1922 · page 4

Before Messrs. Edward Avery and John Campbell, Js.P., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, John Berasconi, 28, was charged with having been drunk…

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Twenty Years Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1922 · page 5

Arthur William Page, charged with the murder of Gladys Hutchinson, with whom he had been living, on February 17, was found guilty of manslaughter, the…

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Swamp Drainage. Appeal Against Assessment. Full Court Directs Hearing. a Case From Ballina. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1922 · page 5

In the Full Court, before Sir William Cullen, Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wade and Mr. Justice James, an application was made on behalf of Robert Gibbon…

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Maclean Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1922 · page 4

At Maclean Police Court, before Dr. Corlis, J.P., James Henry Thompson was charged with being drunk and disorderly at Yamba, also with behaving in an…

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Showground Incident. Youth's Strange Behaviour. Police Magistrate's Admonition

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1922 · page 4

Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M., yesterday heard, at Grafton Police Court, the case in which two persons, Keith Paul James Berry, aged 16, and Harry Moore, aged…

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Grafton Police Court "Terrible Drunk."

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1922 · page 5

John Berasconi pleaded guilty, before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M., at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, on a Charge of having damaged one showcase, the…

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Small Debts Court. J. A. Campbell V. Johnson Bros

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1922 · page 2

This was a claim by J. A. Campbell, teamster, Coffs Harbor, against Johnson Bros., sawmillers, Woolgoolga, for £5 17s 1d made up of…

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Court Procedure. "Put Them in the Dock." Defendants Given Chairs

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1922 · page 3

"Put them in the deck," ordered [?] Swan yesterday when two men, who had been remanded on bail, entered the Grafton Courthouse…

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Coffs Harbor Court. Tuesday, May 9th, 1922. (Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M.)

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1922 · page 2

Tuesday was fairly slack at the Coffs Harbor Court. Cases:— Lachlan Hayes, cruelty to a bullock.—Fined 30s and costs…

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Queensland Shearers. Reduction Refused by the Court. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1922 · page 2

Mr. Justice McCawley on Saturday gave his reserved decision in the application of the 'United Graziers' Association for a variation of the pastoral award…

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£500 Theft. Business Woman in Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 4

A smartly dressed woman, Evelyn Johnston, was remanded at the Central Court charged with having broken and entered a dwelling house in the city and…

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Solicitors Argue. Recitation in Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 4

In the case of a claim for wages in the Industrial Court yesterday, Mr. Macpherson (for the defendant) was questioning the plaintiff and repeating the…

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Queensland Two Soldiers Fined. South Brisbane Murder Case. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 5

Two officers of the permanent military forces were before the court to-day to answer charges involving forgery and perjury…

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Dutchman Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 5

Application was made on a provisional warrant, at the Central Police Court to-day, for the extradition to Java of Seigehrechat Tengbergen. The charge against…

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Decoy Telegram. the Bournemouth Murder. Allaway Before the Court. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 5

Only ticket-holders were admitted to-day to the Bournemouth Police Court, whose doors were beseiged three hours before opening, when Thomas Allaway, 30,…

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Small Debts Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 2

At the local Court House on Friday, before Mr. P. T. Stennett, J.P., S. Grebert sued R. Hill for the recovery of £10. being the value of one fat…

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