Six Months Gaol For Drug Addict Used Names of Doctors. Sydney
William Cochrane, 46, scientist, was sentenced to six months imprisonment at the Central Police Court to-day for having used a false name to obtain…
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Courts & crime, 1940
680 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 34
Quarter Sessions and District Court
Sittings of the Quarter Sessions win be held at Grafton on Tuesday, April 16. July 30 and November 12, and at Lismore on Tuesday, April 30, August…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jumped From Train Prisoner Escapes From Police. Melbourne
Leaping from a moving train between Shepparton and Kooroopan early to-day, John Ryan, 38, escaped While being escorted to Melbourne by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Court Machinery Expedited Sympathy for 2nd A.I.F. Member Sydney
Chief Judge Boyce showed sympathy to a member of the 2nd A.I.F. in the Divorce Court to-day. and promised to expedite the Divorce-Court, machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Asleep in Truck Gaol Escapee Found. Melbourne
While, police searched swamp and scrub. John Ryan, an escapee, was asleep in a railway truck. Ryan leaped from a train in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Were Waiting
Evidently Taree police had an idea that something was intended to "go off" during the holiday period, for they were waiting at a local garage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Bail For "Notorious Gunman" Police Prosecutions Allegations. Sydney
William Henry Charles Grosvenor, 26, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having on December 21 shot at Thomas K. James Brennan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grafton Police Court
Before Messrs. H. G. Greenaway and J. R. Scott. Js.P., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning John William Coffey (alias Haynes) was, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forged Cheques Men From Brisbane Sentenced at Lismore. Lismore
John Wilson, 34 who recently came to the North Coast from Brisbane was sentenced at Lismore Police Court to nine months imprisonment on each of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grafton Small Debts Court
In the Grafton Small Debts Court yesterday before Messrs. H. G. Greenaway and J. R. Scott, Js.P., F. S. Whatman obtained a verdict against Kenneth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£150 BAIL Motor Driver In Court Bruised and Battered. Sydney
With his face battered and bruised and his right hand and head swathed in bandages Norman Alan Jobson (22) single, was remanded at the Central…
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Before Messrs. A. E. Harris and J. R. Scott, J.'sP., at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, John William Coffey, 31 (alias Haynes), on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Stud Sales "Cedar Court"
Master M. G. Sutton, an enthusiastis junior farmer, of Banyaudah, has recently purchased from the "Cedar Court" Stud. of Mr. W. Bain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ate Dog's Head Bombay Gaol Story Denied By Prosecutor Woolcott Forbes Case Sydney
Four coolie murderers shared a cell with Woolcott Forbes while he was in prison in Bombay, and ate weevily rice and a dog's head with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth of 19 For Trial On Murder Charge Ferntree Gully Shooting. Melbourne
Morris Ansell, 19, whom the police alleged had confessed to the shooting of Alfred Thomas Atherton, 35, was committed for trial by the Coroner, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IMMORALITY Court Will Not Encourage Judge Refuses to Speed Up Divorce. Sydney
Justice Halse Rogers refused to speed up the divorce procedure to-day to make absolute a decree nisi so that one of the guilty parties could re-marry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Witness "Very Powerful Man" Manager Of M.T.A. Lent Forbes Money Sydney
Ernest Abraham Goldsmid, business manager, admitted in the Central Police Court to-day that among those people, in the business world of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grafton Police Court
At the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, P.M., Norman Hodges, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traffic Prosecutions Grafton Police Court
Before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, P.M.. at the Grafton Police Court yesterday there were several prosecutions for alleged breaches of the motor traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"A.i.f. Deserter" Man Before Court Trespass and Assault. Cootamundra
When Max Newchurch came before the Police Court on charges of trespass and assault, the police prosecutor said that Newchurch was stated to be a…
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