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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Courts & crime
70 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 4
"Tally-ho Thompson," says Serjeant Witchem, after merely wetting his lips with brandy and water, "Tall-ho Thompson was a famous horse-stealer, couper, and magsman. Thompson, in conjunction…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEXT to a pledge on the subject of Transportation, we should like to see every candidate for Legislative honors at the ensuing general election, called upon to promise his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →STEALING FROM THE PERSON.—Charles Morton was brought up charged with stealing a £1 note and some silver money, from the person of Cornelius Ives, in a house of bad fame…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ILLEGAL MARRIAGE.—The Rev. James Fullerton, L.D.D. ministor of the Scots Church, Pitt-st. south, was indicted for having, on the 13th of June last, knowingly and wilfully and without the father's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BUSHRANGING.—Martin Murphy whose name has lately appeared so often in these columns in connection with a gang of bushrangers who have been committing a number of audacious robberies in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CATTLE STEALING.—A man named Murphy, who lives at Currawang, was charged by a Mrs. Hold, a neighbour of his, with stealing a bullock. From the testimony of the prosecutrix, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Martin Murphy, late of Goulburn, was arraigned on an information which charged him with feloniously assaulting and putting in bodily fear one James Christie, at Wheeo, on the 25th June, he, the said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spencer Trill and Edward Clements, were arraigned on an information which charged them with stealing at Currawang, on the 4th of August instant, one ox, the goods and chattels of Michael Gorman…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BETWEEN 3 and 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, John Thompson, Wm. Mounsey, and Thomas Pinnock, three desperate characters, who (along with another man named James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening last, an exceedingly shocking murder was committed in a farmhouse in the township of Hattersley, near [?] in Cheshire. The unfortunate sufferer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ESCAPE OF TWO PRISONERS FROM MAITLAND GAOL. On Thursday two prisoners escaped from the gaol, one being Patrick M'Namara, awaiting trial on a charge of murdering his wife, and the other Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters from Turin, dated April 7, say, "Great crimes are of rare occurrence at Turin, but a murder has just been committed under circumstances of as barbarous a nature as either…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MICHAEL COHILLANE was indicated for assalting and ravishing Anne Milsom, against her will, at Aberdeen, on the 10th May last. Mr. Purefoy appeared for the defence: attorney,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, Patrick Lyons and Bridget Lyons, his wife, both Irish, and about 30 years of age each, were indicted for the wilful murder of Peggy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOT the least painful of the duties of a gaol chaplain is that of preparing a criminal for execution To insist on the necessity of repentance,—to maintain that it must precede not only pardon, but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Freed by death from every tie to Brussels, I hurried to England; and, like a craven, guilty being sought, under the shades of night, my former home. There was no voice to welcome the returning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LENORA WEYMOUTH, alias Valadier alias DeSauverell, 29, married, was indicted for feloniously marrying Francois Cæsar Valandier, her husband being then and now alive…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A COURT of Petty Sessions was held on Monday last, for the disposal of plaints filed under the Act for the recovery of small debts. Captain Hovell, W. P. Faithfull, Esq., and Dr. Gerard, were the magistrates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Before W. H. Hovell, Esq., J.P. and J. Gerard, Esq. J.P. LARCENY.âThomas Cribb was brought up under the following circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OF all the extraordinary men who were raked up from the obscurity of private life during the French revolution, and- amidst its storms carried to power the eminence,…
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