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

Courts & crime, 1856

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Wednesday, Oct. 22. Before the Police Magistrate

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1856 · page 4

DRUNKARDS.—Three persons were fined for having been drunk in the public streets; one was fined 20s. end the others 5s. each…

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Police Reports. Saturday, October 18. Before the Police Magistrate and W. Chatfield, Esq

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1856 · page 4

WOUNDING.—Thomas Ryan, who described himself as a carrier, was brought up this morning charged with having stabbed Mr. James Kennedy, the butcher, on the previous night,…

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Police Reports. Monday, October 27. Before the Police Magistrate

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1856 · page 4

DRUNKARDS.—Cornelins O'Brien, and James Donaelly, convicted of drunkenness, were admonished and discharged…

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Friday, Oct. 31. Before the Police Magistrate

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1856 · page 4

ARTICLES OF THE PEACE.—Mr. Hugh Kennedy was this day hound over to keep the peace towards Constable Wyatt, and all her Majesty's subjects for six months…

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Miscellaneous. Shocking Double Murder at Geelong

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1856 · page 6

A FEARFUL occurrence happened in this own about two or three o'clock on Monday morning. Police sergeant Finnigan reported the unaccountable absence of his wife and two…

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The Dispatchon the Trial of Dove for Murder

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1856 · page 2

WE were enabled, in our latest edition of last week, to Complete the trial of Dove as far as announcing the verdict Again the public, and its organ the…

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Double Murder and Attempted Suicide

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1856 · page 3

ON Sunday last the town of Dover was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement, owing to the perpetration of one of the most horrible crimes that has been committed in that…

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Rural Police Magistrates

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1856 · page 4

THE decision which the Assembly arrived at on Mr. Forster's motion, in favour of appointing a police magistrate for Queanbeyan, is unquestionably…

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Horrible Murder of a Wife by Her Husband

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1856 · page 2

SARAH D. Higgins, a handsome young English woman of about twenty-one years of ago was murdered at her residence in the Fourth District, on Saturday night last, at about eleven…

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Police Reports. Monday, November 10. B efore E. MAITLAND, Esq., J.P.

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1856 · page 4

DRUNKARDS.—The list this morning included the names of six persons. Most of the defendants were discharged with a reprimand and caution. Muckle Sandy, the white-smith, who…

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Assize Court at Albury

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1856 · page 4

FURSUANT to a requisition to Heyward Atkins, Esq., signed by many of the inhabitants of Albury, requesting him to cull a public meeting for the purpose of petitioning the Government…

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Police Reports. Monday, November 17. Before E. MAITLAND, and Charles Norman Lockart, Esqs

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1856 · page 4

DRUNKARDS.—William Johnson was convicted of drunkenness, and fined 10s. James Thompson, a shearer, whose name appeared on the lock-up charge sheet, and who had deposited…

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Thieves and Police

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1856 · page 2

THE most trivial hint will suffice to put the detective on the right track; for, like men accustomed to work in the lark, things which to other persons…

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Tasmania. Barbarous Murder of a Son of Captain Chamberlayne

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1856 · page 3

Intelligence has just reached town that a lad fourteen years of age, Henry Chamberlayne, son of Captain Chainmberlayne, of Blackman's River, had…

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Police Reports. TUESDAY, Nov. 25. Before Messrs. CHATFIELD and THORN

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1856 · page 4

DRUNKARDS.—Alexander Hugh Ellsdale, a constable in the police, stationed at Bungonia, was charged with having been drunk in the public streets on the previous day. On being…

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Small Debts Court

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1856 · page 4

The usual periodical meeting of Justices sitting under the Small Debts Act, was held on Monday last, when there were present Messrs. Zouch, Thorn, Chatfield, and Rossi…

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Miscellaneous. the Late Murder in Hobson's Bay. Sentence of Death on Melville

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1856 · page 6

IN our lost issue w0 briefly stated that Melville, convicted of murder while attempting to escape from the hulk in Hobson's Bay, had been sentenced to death. We abridge from the…

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Police Reports. Monday, December 1. Before Messrs. Zouch, Chatfiekd, and D. H. THORN, J.P's

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1856 · page 4

DRUNKARD'S LAST.—Several parties, male and female, were fined for having been drunk in the public streets. CONSTABULARY.—A. H. Elsdale, district…

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Murder in Roscommon

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1856 · page 3

The police at the Four-roads station met, near the barracks, on the night of the 15th instant, a man named 'Patrick Collins, who complained of being…

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Shocking Murder on the Ovens

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1856 · page 6

WE copy from the Beechworth Constitution, the following report of a shocking murder that has been committed in that place:— Mr. Murdoch died at 17 minutes past one…

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