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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Courts & crime
471 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 13 of 24
Preen and Smith v. F. James.—£3 8s. 4d., goods sold. Verdict for plaintiff with costs. H. Flanagan v. R. Franklin.—£2 9s. 6d., goods sold. Verdict by Consent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Samuel Barnes was proceeded against by summons by Llewellyn Carroll charging him with having made use of indecent language in the licensed billiard room at the duke's Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A mysterious, robbery at the South Brisbane branch of the Q.N. Bank took place on Monday night, £3800 in notes and gold being abstracted. The clerks entering the bank next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A most daring attempt to escape form Geelong gaol was made yesterday by Chris. Farrell, who fired at Detective Nixon. The bullet was stopped by a pocket book. Fred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alfred Merley, who escaped from Windsor gaol three, years ago, has been identified as a prisoner in Maitland gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Sheehan was charged with being of an unsound mined. Constable Coyne deposed that from information received he arrested the prisoner, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trail of Edward Bourke Harris for obtaining as private detective property by false pretences occupied the Sydney Sessions yesterday. The accused is alleged to have obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Circuit Court on Monday next there [?]s only one or two criminal cases for trial, so chat in all probability the civil business will be proceeded with, Special jurors summoned will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About midnight a warder named Cain commenced his watch at the Geelong gaol. At two minutes to 2 he heard a knocking, and found that it proceeded from the cell of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A daring attempt to break out of the Melbourne, gaol by six prisoners was made on Wednesday night. They had nearly cut the bars through with a table knife when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday at about 1 o'clock p.m. two prisoners, named William Allen and Murphy, both of whom were serving sentences of 18 months, each made a daring escape from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following cases were dealt with:—INSUFFICIENT MEANS OF SUPPORT Annie Clark, aged 31 years, was charged with having insufficient means of support…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great difficulty is being experienced in empanelling unprejudiced jurors in the Cronin murder case only eight have so far been selected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANCY.—Annie Clarke was charged with having no lawful, visible means of support.—She pleaded guilty.—The Sen-sergeant proved that prisoner had just come out of gaol after serving 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning an inquest was held in gaol before the District Coroner and a jury of twelve (six freemen and six prisoner), touching the death of James Robinson, a prisoner under sentence, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday afternoon a report gained currency in town that two prisoners had escaped from the Bathurst Gaol, but the rumor was not credited at first on account of the known security of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farrell and Clarke, the convicts who escaped from the Geelong gaol, have not yet been captured. The enginedriver of the Ballarat to Geelong train reported that he saw two men in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Aull was charged with being drunk in Bank-street on the previous evening, and on pleading guilty was fined 10s with the alternative of 48 hours imprisonment. Fine paid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The two prisoners, William Allen, alias Robert Allen, aged 23 years, barber, and Joseph Murphy, aged 22 years, laborer, who escaped from the gaol on Thursday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Allen, alias Robert Allen, and Joseph Murphy, the two prisoners who had escaped from the gaol and been recaptured, were charged with stealing in company with each other, one gold…
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