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

Courts & crime, 1869

306 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 16

Berrima Quarter-sessions and District Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 4

THE Berrima court of quarter-sessions was held on Thursday before his Honor Judge Mc Farland. Crown-prosecutor, Mr. Rogers. There was only one case for trial…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday—september 18

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 22 September 1869 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Edward Keys, on a charge of vagrancy, was committed to the gaol hospital for twenty-eight days. John Jones was brought up on a charge of…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, September 22

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 September 1869 · page 2

Before Dr. Blake and Mr. Laidlaw. COUNTRY TOWNS POLICE ACT.--Patrick Duffy was complained against by constable McCarthy, for having suffered two horses, his property, to…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—september 22

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 4

BEFORE: the police-magistrate. Thomas Thurston alias Sullivan, charged with drunkenness, was fined 10s. or forty-eight hours in jail…

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Goulburn District Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 4

THIS court opened on Wednesday, before his Honor Judge Mc Farland with a list of twenty-six cases, most of which were either undefended or had boon settled…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday—september 25

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 29 September 1869 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. John Mc Cusker was charged with indecently exposing his person. Defendant, who was drunk at the time he committed the [?]ffance, was sentenced to…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 October 1869 · page 2

Before Dr. Blake and Mr. Laidlaw. BREACH OF THE LICENSED PUBLICANS' ACT.--The further hearing of the case against Mary Kelly, of Foxdown, for a breach of tho 3rd section…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—september 29

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Captain Hovell. George Compton, remanded from Monday on a charge of being of unsound mind, was in default of finding sureties sent to gaol for ten days…

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Young Local News. Young Police Court. Tuesday, September, 28th 1869. (Before G. O’M. Clarke, Esq., P.M., and J. Broughton, Esq., J.P.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 2

BREACH OF THE PUBLICANS ACT. John Kennedy was charged on information with having taken goods in pledge for liqour…

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The Court. Departure of the Court for Osborne

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 October 1869 · page 4

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR OSBORNE.— On July 20 her Majesty the Queen left Windsor for Osborne, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince…

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Yass Small Debts Court. Wednesday, October 6

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 October 1869 · page 2

Before Mr. Laidlaw and 'Dr. O'Connor. James Cottrell v. Daniel White, £7 12s. 5d., goods sold and delivered. No appearance of defendant. Verdict for plaintiff for amount…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 October 1869 · page 2

Before Dr. Campbell and Dr. Blake. LARCENY.--Edward Orridge (on bail) appeared to answer to a charge of stealing from the person. Mr. sub-inspector Brennan having stated the…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—october 6

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 October 1869 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Patrick Mooney and Thomas Birmingham were charged with rescuing cattle, seized for the purpose of being impounded…

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Young Local News. Court of Requests. Monday, 4Th October, 1869.(Before their Worships, the Police Magistrate and Charles Temple, Eng., J.p.)[by a Crazy Contributor.] P. M.

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 October 1869 · page 2

Bailiff, declare we are now sitting That all may begin hard hitting. MR. F[?]ESTONE, May it please your Worship, ere we begin,…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday—october 8

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 October 1869 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. John Jordan and William Jordan, charged with larceny at Yalbraith, Taralga, were remanded till Wednesday…

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Crown Land Sales. at the Police Office, Yass. On Friday, the 29th day of October, 1869

The Yass Courier · Friday 15 October 1869 · page 3

Lot A, 40 acres, county of King, parish of Crookwell, adjoining the eastern boundary of Geo. Warn's conditional purchase of 100 acres on the right bank of Crookwell River. Selected by H…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday—october 16

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 October 1869 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. John Jordan and William Jordan, remanded on a charge of stealing certain goods, the property of Donald Me Kay, were again brought up…

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Police Reticence

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 October 1869 · page 2

We know of old how exceedingly difficult it is to extract from members of the police force the most common-place particulars in reference to…

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Young Local News. Young Police Court (Before G. O’M. Clarke, Esq., P.m.)tuesday, Oct. 12th. PERJURY

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 October 1869 · page 2

John Miller, on remand, charged as above. William Robson, sworn, says: I am an officiating minister of the Wesleyan Church, at Young. I know the accused. I remember his…

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Another Dreadful Ku-klux-klan Murder

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 October 1869 · page 4

A PRIVATE letter to a lady in Natchez gives the following particulars concerning the Crane-Yerger tragedy in Mississippi:--The Rev. Dr. Crane found Colonel Crane lying with…

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