Old Man in Court for Offensive Behavior
John Harris, an elderly man, was fined £2/10/, in default five days' imprisonment, in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…
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Courts & crime, 1942
699 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 35
Industrial Court Work At Evans Head Claim for Country Allowance Adjourned Until To-day
Further evidence was heard in the Industrial Court at Grafton yesterday, in the case in which F. C. W. Powell, carrying on business as F. C. W. Powell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Axis Base in South Atlantic Attempt To Establish Smashed by Police
SAO PAULO (Brazil), Tues.— A Japanese attempt to create a secret Axis submarine base in the South Atlantic is believed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Court "Country Allowance" Claim by Carpenters Evans Head Dispute Concluded
At the Grafton Industrial Court yesterday, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., the hearing was concluded of coses in which F. C. W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Circus Tigers Shot By Police at Large at Inverell
INVERELL, Thurs.— Sergt Toone and Constables G. Rook and H. Moore, armed with 303 rifles, were called out yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COURT-MARTIAL Removal Of "Blitz Waggon" Jurisdiction Challenged
SYDNEY, Thurs.— When Pte. Reginald Australin McGrath came before a court-martial to-day on seven charges, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search for Assailants of Girls
SYDNEY, Sun.— An intensified police search was made to-day, without success, for the man or lien who committed indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armed Robbery Seven Years' Gaol "Dangerous Criminal." Says Judge
SYDNEY, Tues.— At the Quarter Sessions to-day Bernard McDade, 21, laborer, was sentenced to seven years' hard labor on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tried to Escape From Bathurst Gaol Found Under Floor Prisoners with Rope
SYDNEY, Tues.— Two prisoners, one serving a sentence of seven years, and the other a sentence of five years,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jap Assault on Bataan Line Stopped By U.S. Troop Attempts to Land Fail
WASHINGTON, Mon.— "The Japanese on Sunday renewed their attack on the right and centre of the American line on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cargo Thefts Steadily Increasing Police Want Wider Powers
SYDNEY, Tues.— To enable them to deal more effectively with widespread pillaging from cargoes of vessels while in port the…
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SYDNEY, Wed.— The Premier, Mr. Mckell, gave a flat denial in the Legislative Assembly to-day to a statement that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →50 Names Taken By Lismore Police Alleged Brownout Breaches
The Police at Lismore have taken the names of 50 residents because of alleged. breaches of the brown-out traffic regulations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Finds Town Evacuated After Police Boys Bring News Of Invasion
SYDNEY, Wed.— While Jack Keegan, 55 years old miner, was at his camp in the jungle on January 23 native police boys arrived and handed him a letter from the District Officer advising him to return to Kieta, as the Japanese had landed in New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Charged Corruption Scandal
MEW YORK, Wed.—An extraordinary grand jury investigation into graft has uncovered tho greatest corruption scandal in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Contempt Case Trautwein Fails Appeal to High Court
SYDNEY, Thurs.— The Full High Court to-day dismissed the appeal of Theodora Charles Trautwein from an order of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BURGLARY Premises Ransacked Small Sum of Money Stolen
At some time between the hours of 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, when the premises were closed for the day, and 7 a.m. yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →False Pretence Carpenter Sentenced On Four Charges Alleged Valueless Cheques
Frank McKenna, 74, carpenter, was sentenced by Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M. in the Casino Court House on Thursday on four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Public Service Conference Police President Speaks Out
SYDNEY, Fri.— Addressing the annual conference of the Public Service Association to-day, the president of the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Child's Death Mother Gives Evidence Brother Charged with Murder
SYDNEY, Mon.â Mrs. Florence Emily May Peisley gave evidence in the Central Criminal Court to-day at the trial of her brother,…
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