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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
1,083 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 55
Before Justice Schutt and a jury of twelve David Kelly to-day stood his trial for a second time on the charge of having murdered Ada Overall at Millgrove in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Montague Rigby (31), company manager, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having obtained £8500 by false pretences, was sentenced to live years' penal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday evening some excitement was caused in local police circles by the escape of a prisoner from the Grafton gaol. The man, who got away at about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Ley, Minister for Justice, to-night announced that in order to allay any public anxiety in connection with the recent trouble at Bathurst gaol he had decided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Attorney General has declined to proceed further with the case of Sylvester Patrick O'Reilly, who was arrested in October last for the alleged murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"A large portion of the training of every police officer is devoted to the art or 'catching' likenesses. In every case in which a person is "wanted" in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday Constable Macleay, the local secretary of the Police Association handed to the treasurer of the Grafton Hospital a cheque for. £7716,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When we learned that the prisoner who escaped from Grafton gaol on Tuesday had been recaptured, the intimation was conveyed in such a way as to indicate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Before Mr. Justice Gordon and a jury of four to-day John Wilson sued Police Sergeant Russell to recover £375 in respect of alleged detention of property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On June 19 Donald Fraser McPherson a effected his escape from the Grafton gaol. He has since been recaptured, but it is alleged by the police that Fraser was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Wilson, whose premises were raided by the police in May last on the ground that a sweep was being run there, was in the Supreme Court to-day awarded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Petty Sessions Court at Grafton yesterday morning, before the P.M., Mr. W. B. Gedbles, Isablella Margaret Crew (32) was charged with being found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Joseph Wilson, aged 67, laborer, who pleased guilty to a charge of false pretences, was sentenced to nine moths imprisonment at Darlighurst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday morning, before, Messrs. W. B. Geddes, P.M., W. J. Hawthorne, and D. McFarlane, J's.P. (members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M. at Maclean, on Thursday, Erie V. Dunbar was present on summons for that he did on June 24, 1923, fraudulently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. W. Smithers Gadd, J.P., who on Thursday fined a number of blind men on a charge of obstructing the footpaths, in a letter to the press said that no one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bendigo police report that Nathaniel Baker, aged 18 years, who escaped from the Castlemaine Reformatory on Monday, is likely to cause trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Petty Sessions Court at Grafton yesterday morning, before he P.M. (Mr. W. P. Geddes), Michael McGrath was charged with being drunk in Prince street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Licensinig Court yesterday morning the Bench was occupied by Messrs. W. B. Geddes, P.M. (chairman), W. J. Hawthorne and D. McFarlane, J's.'P. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Crown Prosecutor asked for a further remand of the Irish envoys for a week at the Central. Police Court this morning. Mr. Kidston explained that…
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