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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
1,129 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 39 of 57
A fine of £2, with 8 costs and 24 witness' expenses, was imposed on Peter Lawrence Gillespie, farmer, of Woodferd Leigh, by Mr. A. J. Bryant,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tattered and torn, and yellow with age, a set of Coolangatta Council bylaws introduced as an exhibit in a case inspired a humorous interlude in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir Frederick James Siddartha Affleck, ninth baronet Dalham Hall, succeeded to the title while in Boggo Road gaol this week. He and his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I don't want to let this man loose on society," said Mr. Atkinson, S.M., in the Central Police Court when he recommended that application should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A description of a card game called "boxer," in which a player was said to have lost £30. was given in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrates have power to cancel the indentures of apprentices for misconduct, if good cause is shown. This ruling was given by the Full Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evidence of the finding of a folded newspaper, covered with blood, under a tree at a deserted camp on a flat near the Macquarie River, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wild scenes followed the disqualification of Dean Detton, 15.12, in his wrestling match with George Zaharias. 17.6, at Rushcutters' Bay Stadium…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the eve of his retirement, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in Sydney (Mr. T. J. Lynch) made a dramatic appeal to relatives of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The tendency of a section of the public to defame police and public officers was deplored by the Minister for Health and Home Affairs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allegations that he, as mortgagor under an indenture of stock mortgage over 20 head of cattle, had sold the cattle without the written consent of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday the hearing was continued of the charge against John William Driscoll, of South Grafton, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court resounded on Friday with radio static and dance music. The Magistrate (Mr. M. E. Soane) turned a wireless receiver on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleging that they were called Nazis and beaten after a wireless broadcast, by the film star, Eddie Cantor, a Hollywood couple, Charles and Mrs. Gollob,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"He is dead and they will never find him again." Detective J. A. Burke said that while he was sitting in a police car with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large party of police, which was further increased to-night to 50, and two police dogs, are searching for M. Levy, a. New Zealand visitor, who has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The High Court to-day unanimously refused Trevor Kelly, 24, motor mechanic, leave to appeal against his convictions and sentence of death for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sentence of five years' gaol was imposed by Judge Stretton in the General Sessions to-day on Harold Nugent, 22, laborer, and Lawrence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forty-two members of the crew of the Blue Star vessel Napier Star were found guilty at Eastham Court of disobeying commands while on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Patience, 48, a native of Australia, was charged at Christchurch today with murdering his wife, Harriet Patience, 59, whose decomposed body…
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