Supreme Court
Mr. Justice Davidson will preside at a sitting of the Supreme Court to be held at Grafton on April 8…
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Courts & crime, 1931
1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 65
Tintenbar Fire Postmaster Charged with Arson Lismore
The inquiry into the fire which destroyed the post office at Tintenbar was opened at Ballina to-day, and according to the police, Frederick James Stokes,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teacher Killed By Mob Of Youths Violent Assault When Returning From Church. Melbourne
Attacked by a mob of youths near his home at Coburg shortly before midnight yesterday, Arthur Head, aged 16, a school teacher, was kicked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Sentenced Twenty Years' Gaol. London
A onetime beauty queen, named Georgette Hodot, was sentenced in Paris to 20 years hard labor, for murdering her lover, Isaac Eichisky, a diamond broker,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court and Quarter Sessions
The Court of Quarter Sessions will open at the Grafton Courthouse to-day before his Honor, Judge Mocatta. Mr. V. H. Treatt is the Crown Prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Husband Poisoning Wife Free After Three Trials Spent Ten Months in Gaol. London
After spending ten months in prison and undergoing three trials, Mrs. Sproule was acquitted of poisoning her husband in Tyrone. The jury disagreed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Quarter Sessions Court at Grafton Six Charges of Theft
Six charges of breaking and entering premises at Casino and stealing therefrom certain sums of money were preferred at the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Burglary. At Fitzroy Hotel
A burglar entered the bar of the Fitzroy Hotel some time during last night through a front window, but did not make much of a haul. There are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maclean Police Department Criticised
Constable Forbes, of the local police force, has been sent to South Woodburn on relief work. The action of the Police Department in reducing the strength of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Court an Overdraft Account
In the District Court at Grafton yesterday before his Honor Judge Mocatta an action was called on in whier the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., proceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Bodily Harm S. Grafton Assault Case Trial at Quarter Sessions Accused Bellamy Acquitted
The trial of Stephen Conroy Bellamy at the Grafton Quarter Sessions yesterday, before his Honor, Judge Mocatta and a jury, on charges arising out of an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Sentence Murder Of Chinese Shot by Youths Blamed One Another. Sydney
A remarkable story was told at the Central Criminal Court to-day, when Thomas O'Hara, 18, Vernon Bonham 16, and Robert George…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rixon Sentenced Six Years' Penal Servitude. Sydney
William James Rixon, who last week was conv[?]ted at the Central Criminal Court of having caused strychnine to [?] taken by his nephew, John Rixon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Remanded Sentences Quarter Sessions Cases Two Offenders Sent to Gaol
Yesterday morning his Honor Judge [?]atta passed sentence in respect of two defendants who on the previous day had been convicted at the Grafton Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Post-dated Alleged Dishonored Cheque Case in District Court
An action in which Thomas Pitkin, farmer, of Kangaroo Creek, sued Phoebe Clark, of Southgate road, for the recovery of £100, the amount of an alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MILLIONS Everingham Fortune Alleged False Pretences McGRATH Before Court. Sydney
At the Central Court to-day Alfred James Carlisle McGrath, 54, was charged on four counts of alleged false pretences in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotel Entered Burglary at Coff's Harbor
A burglar entered the Fitzroy Hotel, Coff's Harbor, on Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, by prizing open a front window in the bar with a crowbar…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burglary J H. DAVIS & Co's Premises Entered Arrest Made at Grafton
Messrs. J. H. Davis and Co's store premises were, entered on Monday night by some person or persons, who stole a quantity of goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cafe Fire Tweed Heads Sensation Many Separate Outbreaks Proprietors Charged with Arson. Tweed Heads
At about 4 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the Tweed Cafe, in Bay street, Tweed Heads. The cafe is in a two-storey brick building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jumped Into Harbor Body Found by the Police. Sydney
A young man and woman reported to the police late last night they had seen a man jump into the harbor at East Circular Quay…
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