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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
1,819 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 35 of 91
When the late sir W. D. Gilbert of Comic Opera fame, first gave expression to the oft quoted phrase "the policeman's lot is not a happy one," he qualified it by an allusion to the enterprising burglar. Had the illustrious play Wright, however, been able to conceive the possibilities of a social…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before Mr. H. B. Waterhouse, J.P., on Saturday, Charles Ellem was fined 10 for being drunk in River street. On Monday, before Mr. N. G. Hawes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The hearing of the charge of indecency laid against William Henry Briscoll Benson, jun., and of a similar charge against Margery Harris, came before the court at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Minister for Customs, Mr. Pratten, stated to-day that a new proclamation under the Customs, Act had boon issued, under which possession of cocaine by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Central Court to-day, Georgo Durham, 28, laborer, was charged with having attempted to break and enter the shop of Mary Dawson, at ..orth Steyne,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sheffield ex-convict, who was awarded £2000 in connection with the conviction of Browne and Kennedy, who were sentenced to death for the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following a shooting affray at Bingham last night, John Holdstock was admitted to, hospital in a serious condition, with a bullet wound in the side, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sensation, was caused by the finding of a battery on Jockey Duckridge, rider of Chirmo, who finished first in the Wyong Park Handicap, at the local race…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On April 27 during an altercation, Clara Brown was shot in a house in Little Lonsdale street. The bullet passed near the heart, through the stomach and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cabinet to-day decided to recommend to the Governor-in-Council that sentence of death on Cyril Matthew. Thompson be committed to imprisonment for the term…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Honse of Commons, Sir W. Joynson Hicks, Home Secretary, in answer to a series of questions, said he realised the Hyde Park ease, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Glebe court to-day David Allan Burgess was fined £50 or six months hard labor on a charge of having had an unlicensed revolver in his possession…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALLEGATIONS OF, FALSIFICATION OF BOOKS OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS, AND THE THEFT OF NEARLY £8000, WERE MADE,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Donald Fraser McPherson, alias Donald Henty, whom Sergeant McIntose described as a bird of passage, was charged before Mr. J. Doughan, J.P., at the Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detectives, after examining the arms of 1400 ratings at the Naval Depot, in search of a man with a tattoo mark on his arm, arrested Ernest Normans, 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Federal Arbitration Court during the hearing of the Australian Timber Union's claims before Judge. Lukin the proceedings were interrupted by Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Maclean Police Court, before Mr. Mahony, P.M., Timothy Edward MeCauley, on, remand, was charged With stealing clothing blankets, shoes, etc.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Burwood' court to-day, Henry Coulton, 19, milk carter, was fined £65 for having stolen six bicycles, and Arthur Maybury 18, laborer, was fined £50, for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Justice Jamres, in Chambers to-day, granted bail to Edward Egan, who is under committal for trial oil a charge of having killed Norma Cooke, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Central Court, to-day May Smith, 42, who was described as the most notorious retailer of cocaine in Sydney, was fined the maximum penalty of £250, or 12…
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