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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
1,291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 65
Inspector H. Roberts, formerly of South Grafton, was the subject of flattering tributes in Sydney to his personal worth and professional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A verdict that Ethel Belshaw, 12, was murdered by a person or persons unknown, was returned by the Coroner to-day, at the conclusion of evidence into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The trial commenced at Rockhampton to-day before Mr. Justice Brennan and a jury of John McQuade, 30, prison warder, charged with the wilful murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two shots rang out in the quiet of the Pleasant Valley, near Geraldine, early this morning, and investigations showed that Walter Shaw, a well known farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the trial was continued at Rockhampton to-day of William McQuade, gaol warder, charged with the wilful murder of Phyllis Reiger, accused gave evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable time was-taken up at Coifs Harbour Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., in the hearing of evidence in assault…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The home of Inspector E. Blackmore, who has charge of the Rockhampton police, was broken into at Rockhampton and a quantity of jewellery and other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →America has for some months been paying a great deal of attention to the Australian police system, and the New South Wales force in particular has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After one of the most remarkable criminal trials of recent years, the 28-year-old son of a prominent member of Parliament was this week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The climax to one of the strangest cases in the police records occurred tonight when a charge of murder was laid, in what has become known as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following the finding by the Coroner, during the week, that the murder of Ethel Belshaw, 12, at Inverloch, on New Year's Day, was committed by some…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The unusual charge of having stolen goods from a house, and then broken out when detected, was preferred against Herbert Steward, 24, at Darlinghurst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patricia Miller, 22, who had been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, fainted in court at the General Sessions to-day, when Keith Williamson, 19, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 30/ in silver was apparently stolen from a till in the Saraton hairdressing saloon last Thursday night. It is understood that the back door of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A diamond ring which was stolen some months ago from Mr. Bruce Barnes manager of the Grafton branch of the E.S. and A. Bank was recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An amazing feature of the suicide of Mrs. Rhoda Isobel Clulow, in the city watchhouse, where she had been taken on Friday evening, on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Only the briefest of formalities attended the appearance of Patrick Brady (42), shearer, before Mr. Williams, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Behind the statement that the police are anxious to locate a young woman who came to Brisbane about May, 1934, by the steamer Orungal, from Melbourne, lies the possibility that the girl whose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although cockfighting was declared illegal as far back in 1835, it is still carried on in the Lake District of England, in out of the way hills. On Easter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Small Debts Court at Grafton, last Monday, Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., delivered a verdict for the sum of £13/17/5, with cost's and witness'…
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