"The Gong Cried 'Murder!'"
What would be the listener's reaction if he were charged with murder—whether guilty or innocent, whether the web of…
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Courts & crime, 1946
773 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 39
To Save Child Being Born In Gaol
SYDNEY, Fri.—A woman who pleaded guilty in the Quarter Sessions to-day to stealing £240 from the room of a Norwegian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bail Refused Man Charged With Having Sub-Machine Gun
SYDNEY, Fri.—When William Henry Finch (21), labourer, was remanded in Newtown Police Court to-day on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judgments In Compensation Court
Judgments in Workers' Compensation cases heard before Judge H. Moffitt at Grafton on May 7 were in favour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increase In N.S.W. Police, Force
SYDNEY, Fri.—Five hundred recruits had been enrolled in the police force Touring the past five months and numerically the force…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Recover Stolen Money: Youths Charged
SYDNEY, Sun.—Police to-day recovered banknotes and war savings certificates worth a total of £1350, and a loaded 32 calibre…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Charged Twice With Cattle Stealing
THE Police Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Morgan, at Grafton Police Court yesterday, found there was insufficient evidence against William George Robertson, of Dilkoon, on a charge of cattle stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault Case Postponed
Lillian Ivy Toms proceeded against Allen Anzac Toms on a charge of unlawful assault, before Mr. A. G. Morgan, Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just Bravado Says Magistrate
"This was apparently a bit of bravado," said the Police Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Morgan, at Grafton Police Court yesterday, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft Of Rings
CAIRNS, Tues.—Diamond and opal rings valued at £1000 were stolen early last night from the premises of Tolcher and Co., Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fair Rents Court Decisions
The relieving Police Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Morgen, at Grafton Fair Rents Court, heard applications by Arthur John Puttock and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Political Opinion Or Promises Will Not Influence Court
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Politics did not carry much weight with him in matters before the Court, said Acting Chief Judge Drake Brockman at the hearing of the 40-hour week chum before the Full Arbitration Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Charged With Hold-up
SYDNEY, Wed.— Alleged to have held up a Marist Brother at revolver point at Westmead Boys' Home, and menaced a detective…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Court Orders Stay Of Execution
WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ordered a stay of the execution of the 19-year-old negro,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Youths Charged With Grafton Theft
A POLICE search of the district between Koolkhan and Dilkoon on Wednesday night and yesterday resulted in the arrest of two, youths who were charged with having stolen a number of articles from a house in Garden street, Grafton, on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Charged Royalty
Dorrigo Shire Council decided af last meeting to emphatically protest against a royalty charge demanded by the Forestry Department on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol For Unlawfully Using Ambulance
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Gordon Godfrey Eastwood, Royal Navy engineer artificer, to-day was sentenced to 12 months' gaol by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guilty Of Rape—Sentenced To Death
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Found guilty of rape, Frederick Guthrie, 44, ship's painter and docker, of Kings' Cross, was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Inquiring Into Death Of Girl
KATOOMBA, Thursday.—Police have opened inquiries into the mysterious death of an 11-year-old Blackheath girl who died in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judge Rules Against Magistrate
MELBOURNE, Fri.—Mr. Justice Starke, in the High Court to-day granted an application for an order nisi to review a decision by…
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