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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1848

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The Police Act

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1848 · page 2

IT has been our duty to record several convictions which have lately taken place for breaclhes of the Country Towns' Police Act, 2d Victoria, No. 2, the…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Saturday, September 2, 1848

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1848 · page 2

William Hutchins and Robert Dunsdale,laborers, late of' Wagga Wagga, were indicted for stealing on the 28th day of April last, twenty…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, September 12

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1848 · page 3

Willian Beed upon the information of Mr. M'Alister. had a morning iterview with their workships, in order to present them with a full statement of certain circumstances that occured…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Friday, September 8

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1848 · page 3

This was an action of trespass. The declaration stated that the defendant, on the 1st day of January, 1848, and on divers other days and times, broke and entered a certain close of the…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, September 19

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1848 · page 3

Before Capt. ROSSI, J.P., and Lieut. MONTGOMERIE. DRUNKARDS.—The money market appears to have been very easy during the past week, and a good deal of cash changed hands with the…

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Trial of Bryan for the Murder of Eliza Neilson. Maitland Court Circuit.—friday, September, 15, 1848

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1848 · page 4

[Before HIS HONOR MR. JUSTICE DICKENSON.] PATRICK BRYAN was indicated for having on the 29th December, 1847, at Irish Town Road, feloniously assaulted Eliza Neilson, and for having…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, September 26

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1848 · page 3

Before F. MACARTHUR, J.P., LIEUT. MONTGOMORIE, J.P., and J. CHISHOLM, J.P. ASSAULT AND INSULT.—Mr. Robert Patterson of Chatsbury, appeared to answer a charge of assault…

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Police Incidents

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1848 · page 3

DRUNKARDS.—Thomas Blackwell, Samuel Taylor, and Samuel Denison, were severally and individually fined for sacrificing at the shrine of the jolly god, and were discharged. Elizabeth…

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Trial of Patrick White, for Murder, at the Bathurst Assizes

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1848 · page 4

PATRICK WHITE was indicted for the wilful murder of Peter Carling, or Carroll, at Broken Shaft Creek, on the 17th June last. From the evidence it appeared that the…

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Small Debts Court. Monday September 2, 1849

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1848 · page 2

CAPTAIN ROSSI, J.P., and CAPTAIN HOVELL, J.P. having taken their scals on the Bench, the Court was opened, and the causes called in rotation. There were few cases of any public interest, and…

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To the Editor of the Goulburn Herald. Goulburn Small Debts Court

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1848 · page 2

"My teacher told me what was according to Law was JUST, and that which was contrary to Law was VIOLENT.—He bid me take notice, therefore, that a…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, Sept. 10

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1848 · page 3

THOMAS RAWSON, free by servitude, appeared by his attorney (i.e.) a pound note, upon a charge of drunkenness. The business of declaring the sum forfeited was carried through in…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, Sept. 17

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1848 · page 3

Before CAPTAIN HOVELL. SAMUEL DENISON was charged with being drunk in Montague-street, in this town, on Monday night last, and not appearing to plead, the…

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REGINA v H. Moses. Supreme Court, October 11, 1848

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1848 · page 4

AT the last Goulburn Assizes the prisoner had been found guilty of subornation of perjury. On a former day the Court had appointed last Saturday to hear the arguments on certain points…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, Oct. 24

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1848 · page 3

RICHARD DOYLE was fined in the amount of his deposit, (£1 1s.) for being drunk near the boundaries of the town. As he declined making an appearance, the disposal of his tin met with…

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Police Incidents

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1848 · page 3

Before CAPT. HOVELL, J.P., and J.F. MACARTHUR, J.P'S Esqrs. WILLIAM STORIER and SAMUEL SHOWEL appeared to answer the complaint of Patrick…

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Supreme Court.—thursday, October 26. Chatfield V. Sinclair

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1848 · page 4

This was an action of assumpsit, brought on a building agreement; it was tried at the last Goulburn Assizes before His Honor Mr. Justice Manning, and a verdict was found for the…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1848

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1848 · page 3

CHARLES SMITH, a resident of Bungalore Gap, describing himself as a tailor, and admitting himself a lushington of the reformed class, appeared to answer the charge of drunkenness…

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Police Incidents. TUESDAY, Nov. 14, 1848

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1848 · page 3

Before CAPTAIN HOVELL, J.P. A FIGHTING MAN IN TROUBLE.—Samuel Hall, better known as "Tigey Hall" of the P.R., was brought up before the Beuch charged with…

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Police Incidents. Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1848

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1848 · page 3

Before W. H. HOVELL, Esq., J.P. MALICIOUSLY KILLING SHEEP.—Patrick Lee free by servitude, was brought up, under warrant, charged with maliciously and wilfully…

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