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Blue Mountains · Courts & crime
26 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 2
Mrs Emily Gearin, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Katoomba, was proceeded against for keeping her bar open after the hours for closing, viz., 11 p.m. on the night of the 6th December…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ernest Henry Turner, of Lawson, was charged weth using filthy and insulting language to Mr. John Carberry, of Lawson, on the 12th day of January last. Evidence was given by a daughter…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At 2.15 on Wednesday afternoon, Harold St. George Quinan, on bail, was again arraigned on the charge of stealing certain moneys, aggregating 23 odd, from the Katoomba Town…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Nothing of a startling nature occurred at the Police Court during the week. A few harmless "sinks" were lectured and discharged, and Taylor, the young…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Have you made your will ? " shouted a wag in the audience at Wirth's Circus last night as Ramond's head disappeared within the iron box from which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Thursday morning Victor Greentree was arraigned before Mr Arthur Gates, P.M., from Braid wood, on a charge of breaking gaol from Katoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →George Charles Stretton (29) was charged with crimminally assaulting and carnally knowing a girl named Annie Mclaughlin, aged 4 years and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →W. Hughes, a copper coloured lad of 17 years, was charged with breaking Mr T. S. Bell's window and stealing therefrom some lollies and cakes. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Last Saturday morning, Charles Stretton, who on the previous day pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal assault in Katoomba, was brought before…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr Mears, P.M. had a two days sitting over the Appeal Court of the Blue Mountain Shire Council, when a number of appeals were lodged against the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Saturday last, the Full Court (the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Pring and Mr Justice Sly) was occupied with an appeal, in the shape of a special case stated by Judge Murray, against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quiet village of Faulconbridge, two miles from Springwood, was the scene of a daring robbery last Sunday night. Some thieves, who had armed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Saturday morning before Mr John F. Tabrett, J.P., Charles Kee (19), a half-caste Chinaman, and William Hargraves, alias Henry Lett (17), were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Monday last, Walter Conway Edwards, carrier and wood and coal merchant, of Leura, was tried before Judge Docker and a jury of twelve on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Phillips has been sentenced to death for the murder of his daughter "Wicky" at Willoughby. His Honor's address to the jury occupied 2½ hours, his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A man named William Robinson, who was charged before Mr T. B. Clegg, P.M., at Katoomba Police Court on Friday with having been found drunk in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three men named Edward Barker, James Murtagh and James Sweeney were brought up at the local Police Court on Monday last before Mr T. H. Timbrell,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named William Brooks paid the penalty at the Katoomba Police Court on Friday last for imbibing too much tanglefoot or soldier's joy. For…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Before Mr P.M. Clegg on Wednesday morning, E. T. Simons (contractor) proceeded against William Amees and Thomas Pietcher (carpenters) for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The return to Australia of the German-Australian steamer Apolda revives the Dungog murder, which had practically faded out of the public mind. It is now just a year since…
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