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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime
680 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 34
The Chief Secretary, Mr. Tonking, announced that the committee to review the present methods in the police force and submit a recommendation to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the eve of the celebrations in Eire to mark the Easter rising of 1916 several extremist Irish Republican Army convicts mutinied in Dartmoor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 11 o'clock this morning Frank William Barber, 34, was found in a room of a house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Green, Coraki…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gustav August Martin, 52. was remanded at Toogoolawah Police Court for eight days on a charge of having murdered his wife, Maria Bertha…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Grafton Police Court on Monday morning before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., George Hudson (27) was fined 26, in default detention until the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The terrible story of how he had seen his mother slain with a shotgun on Easter Monday was related from a hospital bed to-day by a critically…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Postmaster-General Mr. Thorby, said to-day that he was quite prepared to consider the question of whether the numbers of the telephones used for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Maclean Police Court on Thursday last, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Melville James Adams pleaded guilty to having on December 1, 1939,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Last Wednesday week, a lady residing on the outskirts of the town, had occasion to send her little son, who does many messages for her and who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Sydney men recently paid, between them, £150 for ten carpets, which were later valued at £40, retail. The purchasers told Sydney police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A number of serious bush fires broke out on the South Coast to-day. Overcome by the terrific heat while fighting a fire which blocked traffic on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A 14ft. police patrol launch was holed and sunk following a collision with a 24ft. speedboat in the harbor Off Pt. Piper to-night. No one was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stated to have only fivepence left of her inheritance of £40,000 ten years ago, Dorothy Dark, 41, pleaded for leniency in the Central Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After a hearing extending over a month, Patrick Brady (47), Walter Ernest Watson (39), Charles Bethel Tritton (32) and Frederick James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large party of police and civilians are searching the Coledale district on the South Coast for a man who criminally assaulted a six-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Grafton Courthouse yesterday morning before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Martin Francis McMahon was charged with having assaulted Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sixteen years old Geoffrey Keith Barker was to-day sentenced in the Central Criminal Court to two years' imprisonment for manslaughter of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rev. Ormond Burton, described as Christian Pacifist, was sentenced to three months' gaol at Wellington Police Court to-day on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Describing a city cafe murder as an underworld crime, the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. McKean, K.C., suggested in the Central Criminal Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Certain secret inquiries have been made about him, but under the National Security Regulations, I cannot divulge the nature of those…
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