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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
1,306 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 66
Already committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Iris Marriott, known as May Miller, Eric Ronald Craig, 25, salesman, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Few public servants and fewer Magistrates have had a wider or more varied experience of Queensland especially of the outback areas, than Mr. A. P. W…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Talk about slavery! I have never beard of anything to equal it. Here is a girl, working 65 hours for 168, and during that time, having periods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large crowd of sympathisers of Miss Beatrice Taylor, the school Teacher, who was suspended by the Education Department for lecturing on Russia, gathered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Don't take any notice of the --mug copper." "Huirah! the mug copper has a victory at last." These remarks, according to Constable Peterkin at Lis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the High Court to-day a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity was returned in the case in which Bertram Edward Porter, 25,. a sheet metal worker…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Given every opportunity by the Crown to make restitution of £538 at the rate of £10 a month, Lionel William McDonald, .48, a former solicitor, failed to do so and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Leslie Griffin, 20, of Newtown, appeared before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers in Chamber to-day charged with the murder of William Alexander Mellveen, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two dangerous criminals escaped from a prison van in a sensational manner to-night when being taken back to the metropolitan gaol from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Mills, 34, was convicted and remanded for sentence at the Bathurst Sessions to-day on a charge of having broken and entered a store at Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four sailors arrested during a fight at Circular Quay were fined at the Central Court to-day. William Freeman, 22, and Harry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Convicted recently on a charge of housebreaking, Grace Horne, 18, was bound over and ordered to remain under the care of the Salvation Army. She ran…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The figures showing the amount of business done last year at Coffs C.P.S. and Crown Lands Office, published in last issue of the "Advocate," are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evidence as to how Eric Ronald Craig, accused of the murder of Bessie O'Connor, denied committing the crime was given at the inquest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Of 15,854 crimes committed in New South Wales last year, the police have cleared up 11,035, or 69 per cent., including major and minor offences…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reference to the fact that the police have taken possession of 276 proxies held by Mr. Brain was made at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Said to have been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in Sydney in 1912, in respect of bank note forgeries and sentenced in Melbourne in 1919 to 16…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The names of two men were taken, in the vestibule at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of consorting, with a known criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Bathurst Quarter Sessions Norman Stanley-Baker, one of four Lithgow accused who were charged with breaking, entering, and stealing, declared he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Acting Judge Nield in the Quarter Sessions to-day declined to reduce a sentence of three months' imprisonment imposed upon Norman McDonald, 28, for…
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