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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1875

58 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Summons Court

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 29 April 1875 · page 2

Honeysett v. Stephen,— Summons not served. Postponed till 12th May, Stewart V. Larance.— No. Parties. Larance v. Stewart. —No parties…

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Warden’s Court, Thursday, 29th April, 1875. (Before T. A. Browne, Esq., P.m.) Trespass Matthew Bosanic v Keen and party

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 29 April 1875 · page 2

The plaintiff, being sworn, said : I am miner, residing at Home Rule; i was working in No. 6 on march 24; after all my mates left I registered two heaps of mullock;…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Court of Requests. Wednesday, May 12Th. (Before the Police Magistrate, and L. S. Donaldson, Esq., J.P.)Ford v. KENRICK

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 13 May 1875 · page 2

Plaintiff sued defendant for £4, value of 38 sets of slabs. Defendant stated that he purchased the slabs from one of the plaintiff’s mates…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Police Court. Wednesday, May 19th. (Before T. A. Browne, Esq., P.m.) Insulting Language

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 20 May 1875 · page 2

Mrs. White, of Slasher’s Flat, was charged with having made use of abusive and insulting language to Mrs. Emma Naughton, near the Three-Mile, on the 30th April…

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Law and Police. Hill End Police Court. Friday, May 21. J. W. Lees, Esq. P. M., and Charles Cropper, Esq., J. P.) [?] Run be alias Murphy

Hill End and Tambaroora Times and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1875 · page 2

The prisoner was apprehended in Bathurst on a parent obtained by James Paxton on the 7th May, in which it is alleged that the prisoner as a ballee of goods and chattels,…

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Court of Requests. (Before the Police Magistrate, and L. S. Donaldson, Esq. J.p.) Wednesday, May 26. Newton and Pericles V. HOLLIBONE

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 27 May 1875 · page 2

The Plaintiff in this case sought to recover for services, as medical practitioners, rendered to members of the Gulgong Division of Sons of Temperance, under a verbal contract…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Police Court. Wednesday, May 26Th, 1875. (Before T. A. Browne, Esq., P.m.) Perjury

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 27 May 1875 · page 2

GEORGE STEPHEN was charged with having committed wilful perjury in his evidence in a case of wages against Mr. Honeysett. Mr. Brough appeared for respondent…

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Dr. Kenealy Charged with Lible

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 4

AT GUILDHALL, on March 29 Mr. George Lewis, jun., applied to Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott for a summons against Dr. Kenesly for a libel which appeared in a…

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The Murder of Mr. Margary

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 3 June 1875 · page 3

ANOTHER name has been added to the long roll of victims to Chinese perfidy and brutishness. Dr. Marnary, a rising member of H.B.M. Consular service, while engaged in a…

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Small Debts Court. Wednesday June 23.(Before T.A. Browne, Esq., P.M., and R. Rouse. Esq., J.p.) Jansan v. MAITLAND

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 24 June 1875 · page 2

Price of two chaff-bales, 15s, — Verdict for plaintiff. with Costs, SEITZ V. [?] Dish[?] bill.— Verdict for plaintiff,…

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Murder at Wagga Wagga

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 29 June 1875 · page 2

ON Saturday morning [?] town was thrown into excitement by the circulation of a rumour to the effect that the body of a man, who had evidently come to his death…

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Murder and Cannibalism by the Queensland Blacks

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 1 July 1875 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT of the Cooktown Courier furnishes full particulars respecting the late dreadful mutilation of a Chinaman by the blacks…

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Important Mining Case. Warden’s Court. (Before T. A. Browne, Esq.. Warden.)Thursday, July 1st, 1875. James Fraser and Others V. Horatio Thurston

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 2

This action was brought to test the rights of the parties engaged to a certain parcel of mining ground at Leaning Oak Creek, near Merrendee. It appeared that about three…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Summons Court. Wednesday, July 7Th 1875. (Before T. A. Browne. Esq.. P.m). Detaining a Goat.— Elliott v. MARSHALL

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 8 July 1875 · page 2

Complainant, deposed : I have been the owner of the goat I now claim for more than four years ; she is a white goat with black neck, has the tops of both ears cropped :…

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Mutiny and Murder at Sea

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 3

A TERRIBLE story of the sea has just come to light in connection with the Jefferson Borden, of Boston, Captain William Patterson. On the 3rd of Match she left New…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Police Court. Wednesday, July 14Th, 1875.(Before T. A. Browne, Esq., P.m). Drunk and Disorderly

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 15 July 1875 · page 2

AN elderly woman pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly. She had previously been before the Court on similar charges, and was now fined £1. or 14 days’…

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Small Debts Court. (Before T. A. Browne. Esq.. P.M., and L S. Donaldson, Es.p, J.p.) Covenny V. SMITH

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 15 July 1875 · page 2

Breach of Contract.—Mr. Clarke, for defendant, started that his client was away before the service of the summons, and the hearing was postponed for two weeks…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Police Court. Tuesday. July 20Th, 1875. (Before T. A. Browne, Esq., P .M). Drunk and Disorderly

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 20 July 1875 · page 2

A FEMALE was brought in from the Home Rule and charged by Sergeant Keenan with being drunk, disorderly and using obscene language , she pleaded guilty to the charges…

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Court of Requests. Copley V. Smith

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 29 July 1875 · page 2

£10, damages for loss of services of a horse purchased from the defendant. Francis Copiey, sworn, said: On the 22nd of June, I made an exchange with the…

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Gulgong Law Courts. Police Court. Wednesday, July 28Th, 1875.(Before T. A. Browne. Esq., P.M., and E. Rouse, Esq., J.P.)PERJURY

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 29 July 1875 · page 2

HASBURN v. Hunter.—This was a case in which the defendant was charged with committing perjury, in giving evidence in a disputed case heard some few days since…

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