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

Courts & crime, 1865

380 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 15 of 19

Thursday, September 28. Stealing a Saddle at Yass

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 4

THOMAS SIMPSON (on bail) pleaded not guilty to an information in which he was charged with having, on the 1st June, at Yass, stolen one saddle, the property of…

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Young District Court

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

This Court was opened by his Honor Judge Meymott, on Thursday morning last, at 10 o’clock. There were only eight cases set down for hearing. Some of these were settled out of…

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A Circuit Court for Yass.--public Meeting

The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

PURSUANT to advertisement, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Yass and the surrounding districts was held at the Court house, on Thursday afternoon last, for the purpose of petitioning the…

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Burrowa. Court of Petty Sessions.--september 30. Before J. N. Ryan, Esq., J. P.

The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

HORSE STEALING.--William Atkins, charged on suspicion with horse-stealing, was again brought up. His worship on hearing the evidence of Thomas Connors for the defense discharged the…

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LOCAL & General Intelligence Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, October 4. Before J. G. Davidson, Esq

The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCE.-- Patrick Gibbons was brought up, charged with having obtained a bag of flour from Mr. Higman of the Union Mill, by a false pretence…

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Yass Court of General Sessions. Monday, September 25. (Before his Honor Judge Meymott.)TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. Housebreaking at Young

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 4

AH Foo, a Chinese, pleaded not guilty to an information in which he was charged with having, on the 24th June, at Young, broken into and entered the shop of Samuel…

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Local and Provincial. Goulburn Police Court. Monday—october 9

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 October 1865 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate, and A. G. De Lauret, Esq. STEALING A WATCH.—John Pedroni was charged with stealing a silver lever watch of the value…

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Appraisement of Runs -- Binalong Court

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 11 October 1865 · page 2

THE court for the appraisement of runs for this part of the Lachlan district was held to-day (October 6), by John Broughton, Esq., Government appraiser. The business was of merely a formal…

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Yass District Court. Monday, October 9. Before Judge Meymott

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 11 October 1865 · page 2

NEW TRIAL MOTION. -- An adjourned sitting of the court was held this day for the purpose of hearing an application for a new trial in the cause of Calhoun v. Hancock…

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Original Correspondence. Circuit Court for Yass. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 11 October 1865 · page 3

SIR, -- No doubt the establishment of a Circuit Court will be productive of immense and immediate advantage to the town and district of Yass. The dull state of business, the increasing number of…

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Local Intelligence. Police Court, Young. Monday, October 9.(Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 2

AMADIE MAZOUDIER was charged with violently assaulting J. Sherritz. Senior-Sergeant Musgrove was sworn, and said that on Sunday morning the prisoner came…

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Local and Provincial. Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—october 11

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate, and A. G. Dc Lauret, Esq., J.P. UNSOUND, MIND.—Michael Rourke, of unsound mind, was ordered to find sureties, in the sum of…

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Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, October 11. Before Dr. Campbell and Mr. Laidlaw

The Yass Courier · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 2

ARTICLES OF THE PEACE.--John Wells was charged with having used language to Richard English which was calculated to cause a broach of the peace. The case wets proved, and the defendant…

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A Five-fold Murder

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 18 October 1865 · page 4

THE triple cab murder in London, and the family of children calmly poisoned and exposed in Manchester between one aud two years since, have been eclipsed in appalling interest by a series of…

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Murder of Three Children by Their Mother

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 18 October 1865 · page 4

ABOUT three o'clock on Wednesday morning another horrible murder was committed in the metropolis. In a narrow, densely-populated thoroughfare, known as Skin-market place…

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Local Intelligence. Police Court, Young. Tuesday, October 17. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 2

William Lawless v. Michael M’Sweeney ; Mrs. M’Sweeney v. William Lawless ; Mrs. M’Sweeney v. Cockrane ; Bridget Tobin v. Mrs. M’Sweeney.—The parties to these four…

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Friday, October 20. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 2

JOHN GRANT was charged by Mr. Henry Cohen with using obscene language in his sale room on Thursday last. Mr. Cohen said he did not wish to press the case against Grant,…

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Thursday, October 19. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 2

WILLIAM KING was charged with using obscene language by Constable Drum, and was fined 10s. or 48 hours in the lock-up…

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Gundagai. Police Court.—wednesday, October 18

The Yass Courier · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 2

Before his worship the Police Magistrate. Mr. Jeremiah" Lehane, of Coppabella, was brought up under warrant, charged with stealing a red and white bullock, the property of Mr. John P…

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Court of Requests. Monday, October 6. (Before the Police Magistrate and A. G. Shad-forth, Esq., J.P.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 2

Dailey v. Cooper—damage for trespass, £10.— The plaintiff in this case was a station-holder, whose run was supplied with water by means of dams which he had erected fourteen years ago…

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