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Courts & crime, 1891

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Katoomba Small Debts Court

Katoomba Times · Friday 13 November 1891 · page 2

WEDNESDAY. BEFORE Messrs. J. K. Cleeve, P.M., and J. W. Fletcher, J.P. N. and C. B. Delaney v. John Baker, Claim…

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Katoomba Police Court. Wednesday. Before Messrs. J. K. Cleave, P.M., and J. W. Fletcher, J.P.

Katoomba Times · Friday 13 November 1891 · page 2

One unforunate contributed half-a-crown towards the public revenue for being drunk. William Curnow was fined 10s. and 5s. 6d. costs for furious driving in Park-street on 2nd November…

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Deliberate Attempt at Murder

Katoomba Times · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A most deliberate attempt to perpetrate a double murder was made in Warr[?]gul last evening about 8.30 by a man named William Issac Jefkins. This man is…

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Katoomba Police Court

Katoomba Times · Friday 27 November 1891 · page 2

Before Messrs. Goyder and Fletcher. Js.P. John M. Dermott was formally charged with abducting Mary Ellen Dowling, ages 16, from her parents at Liverpool, and was remanded to that…

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Katoomba Police Court. Wednesday Before Messrs. J. K. Cleeve, P.M., and J. W. Fletcher, J. P.

Katoomba Times · Friday 4 December 1891 · page 2

William Drury, pleaded guilty to being the owner of an unregistered dog. He pleaded he was a new chum and did not know the law. Fined 10s and 5s 6d costs…

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Theft

Katoomba Times · Friday 11 December 1891 · page 2

To day at Katoomba Police Couft a woman, who was arrested by Constable Hamilton at Springwood, will be charged with stealing a quantity of underclothing from a girl employed at the…

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Katoomba Police Court. Wednesday. Before the P.M. and Messrs. J. W. Fletcher and F. C. Goyder, J. P.

Katoomba Times · Friday 11 December 1891 · page 2

Six navvies sued McMahon Bros, heirs in the estate of the late J. McMahoo, for wages. Case struck out owing to Summonses not being properly served, but plaintiffs have the privilege of…

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Katoomba Petty Debts Court. Wednesday. Before the P.M. and Messrs. J.W. Fletcher and F. C. Goyder, J.P.

Katoomba Times · Friday 11 December 1891 · page 2

Gunning v. Caddie. Claim, £8 4s. boani and lodging. Defendant put in an off- set of £8 4s. Three years having elapsed since the debt was contracted that Court had no jurisdiction…

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M'Dermott Sentenced

Katoomba Times · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 2

AT the Quarter Sessions on Tuesday John M. Der[?] who was found guilty on Monday on a charge of having at Liverpool on September 12, [?] Mary Ellen Dowling, a girl of 16 years of age was…

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Murder and Suicide at Forbes

Katoomba Times · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 3

FORBES, Monday.--A terrible tragedy was enacted there on Saturday night. Shortly after 8 o'clock [?]our revolver shots were heard on the lagoon at the south end of Lachlan-street, towards the…

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Katoomba Police Court. BEFORE Messrs. F. C. [?] and J. W. Fletcher, Js.P

Katoomba Times · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 2

Archibald Graham Bell, drunk in Park-street Fined 10s. or seven days gaol. Same using obscene language in the bar of the Centennial Hotel, Katoomba South. Fined 10s. or…

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Katoomba Licensing Court

Katoomba Times · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. J. K. Cleeve and A. W. Stephen. W. H. Edwards was granted a renewal of the [?] for the Centennial Hotel. Katoomba South W. Wilson was granted leave granted leave to transfer the…

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