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

Courts & crime, 1867

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—october 30

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 November 1867 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Sarah J. Wildgust, aged fifteen, brought up for vagrancy, was discharged. Thomas Barrett was fined 20s. for drunkenness…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday—november 2

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 November 1867 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Edward Middleton, brought up for drunkenness, was discharged…

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Collector Police Court. Tuesday—november 5

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate of Goulburn and Messrs. J. WV. Chisholm and Waddell. L. Ryan v. John Hutchinson (on summons); cruelly ill-treating a cow…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—november 6

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Hovell, Finlay, and Faithfull. William A. Evans, for neglecting to keep the lamp burning at his licensed public-house, was fined 20s, and costs…

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Gunning Police Court. Wednesday—november 6

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate of Goulborn and Mears. Gray and Saxby. Ellen Connell was summoned for unlawfully allowing a pig to stray in the Yass road…

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Murder of Eleven Persons at New Caledonia

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 7

BY the barque Camden, an extraordinary, issued by the New Caledonian Moniteur, has been received, detailing tile particulars of a fearful outrage perpetrated by the native in…

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Yass Small Debts Court. Wednesday, November 6

The Yass Courier · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 2

The usual monthly sitting of this court was held before Messrs. Blake, Campbell, and Laidlaw. Remmington v. Aplin.-- Plaintiff claimed from defendant 8l. 1s. 3½d. for butcher's meat supplied,…

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Frightful Murder.—a Little Girl Decoyed, and Then Cut to Pieces in a Hop-garden

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 7

THERE is barely a week passes without a murder of some description being committed in the country. As a rule we avoid giving publicity to this description of intelligence…

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LOCAL & General Intelligence. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, November 6. Before Messrs. Blake and Laidlaw

The Yass Courier · Saturday 9 November 1867 · page 2

SURETIES OF THE PEACE.-- John Davis had been summoned by his wife. Mary Ann Davis, to show cause why he should not be required to find sureties of the peace…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday—november 11

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 November 1867 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate and Mr. W. E. Dignam. Johnny Long, alias Captain, a Chinaman, was brought up, charged with having, on the 9th instant,…

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Bushranging and Our Police System

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 13 November 1867 · page 4

THE public have frequently had official glimpses of our costly police force, especially during the career of Tommy Clarke and his associates, in the Braidwood district; and they…

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Young Local News. Police Court, Young. Monday, 11th November. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Illegally Converting Property

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 2

Thomas Dunneen, on bail, appeared on the above charge. Mr. Freestone for defendant. From the evidence it appeared that the…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—november 13

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 4

James Simpson v. John Simpson, breach of the peace. Case dismissed. In a case of trespass between Samuel Ferguson and John Armstrong there was no appearance…

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Thursday, 14th November. (Before the Police Magistrate and G. O’Malley Clarke, Esq., J.p.) Robbery Under Arms

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 2

Robert Co[?]erell, alias Blue Cap, was escorted into court in irons, and charged as above. Jeremiah Lehane, on being sworn, said : I am a grazier, and reside at Reedy Creek ; on the…

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Burrowa Police Court. -- Wednesday, Nov. 13. Before J. E. Pearce. Esq., P. M.

The Yass Courier · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 3

CATTLE STEALING. -- Joseph McGuire, in custody, was charged with being concerned in a cattle stealing case which occurred at Wargiela about eight months ago. The prisoner was for some…

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Insolvency Court, Yass

The Yass Courier · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 2

ON Friday, the 8th instant, a special-examination in the estate of John Higman, miller, storekeeper, and auctioneer of this town, who had surrendered on the 2nd inst., was held before the district…

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Bushranging and Our Police System. -- No. Ii. Still Too Clever for Us

The Yass Courier · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 4

WE rammed in the spurs and flew after them in pursuit. As Tommy Clarke was turning in his saddle to fire, I fired at him. He was just galloping under an oak tree; the bullet cut the…

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LOCAL & General Intelligence Yass Court Op Petty Sessions. Wednesday, November 13. Before Mr. Laidlaw

The Yass Courier · Saturday 16 November 1867 · page 2

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. -- Thomas Darcey, on bail of 2l., was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in a public place, to wit, Sharpeningstone Creek, near Yass. Defendant pleaded not…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday—november 16

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 November 1867 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. James Barnett, brought up for drunkenness, was discharged…

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The Murder of the Rockhampton Gold Escort

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 November 1867 · page 4

THE Brisbane Courier of the 12th instant contains the following telegram from Rockhampton with reference to the murder of the troopers forming the escort from thence to Clermont:…

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