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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Courts & crime
145 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 8
ASSAULT UPON A FEMALE.—Alexander M'Cloud, a shoemaker by trade, was charged by Ann Feeney, a married woman, with assaulting and beating her on the evening of Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John McInnes, the son of a respectable settler at Cotta Walla, was brought before the bench charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct; also with destroying conduct ; also with destroying a bucket in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The celebrated James Henry Ashton, so well known upon the bright scroll of Fame as an equestrian and acrobatic performer of the first class, smoothed down his moustaches at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LARCENY.—Joseph Dalton was charged with stealing one side of solo leather the property of Me. Edward Davis. It appeared that constable Wyatt, while on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"JUSTICE IS BLIND," has long been a trite proverb It may be added that law and its operations are altogether chance work. This is particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE IMPOUNDING ACT.—THORN v. HUGGART.—This was a case under the new Impounding Act, and the defendant, who is overseer to Mr. W. P. Faithfull, at Springfield, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS. John Larkins, who was charged on the previous day with being drunk, but remanded for contempt of court was fined £2. NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Croydon Assizes on Friday Thomas Woods, 30, Samuel Eastwood, 25, William Foyle, 25, William Blackman, 25, and David White, alias Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS. Mary Barnes, an old offender, was brought before the Bench, charged with being drunk and disorderly in the public streets. Constable Patterson stated that she was frequently drunk,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A very old man named William White, was charged with stealing wool of the weight of 18 pounds, and of the value of £1 10s., of the goods and chattels of William Chatfield, Esq.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROBBERY IN A DWELLING HOUSE.—Charles Jones, remanded since last Friday, was again brought up pursuant to remand, for the robbery at Mr. Travers, the full particulars of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →George Humphreys was fined £2, or 48 hourse in the cells, for drunkenness. Mary Anderson, for a similar offence, was also sentenced to pay £2, or be locked up during 48…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins said he begged "leave to move the court in the case of William Palmer, now a prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—A man was fined £2, and in default to be incarcerated during 48 hours. A female for the same offence was fined £1, or 24 hours imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROBBERY.—Charles Jones was again bright before the court for final examination. John Thomas Travers, of Wagga Wagga, deposed that the chief portions of the property produced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When we witness the crimes and follies which are to be found in an artificial state of society, we may well ask ourselves how can civilization, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INTEMPERANCE.—Thomas Murphy pleaded guilty to the charge of being drunk in the streets, but begged to be excused on the score that he had been travelling a great distance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HORSE STEALING AND PRISON BREAKING.—James Pegg, alias James Splatt, was brought before the Comet, charged with horse stealing, and with prison breaking, by making his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since September 24th, 1855, a squatter named John Martin Young, proprietor of some stations at Rose Brook, near the Grampian Hills, about seventy miles distant from Geelong, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HORSE STEALING.—An elderly man, named Thomas Jones, we charged with having, at Penrith, on the 12th of November, 1854, stolen one bay horse, valued at 18, of the goods and…
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