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

Courts & crime, 1870

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Municipal Appeal Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 July 1870 · page 2

A THIRD court of appeal against the rates of assessment imposed on certain properties in Goulburn was held on Monday before the police-magistrate and Messrs. W. Evans Dignam and A. Levy, J.P.'s…

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Goulburn District Court. Tuesday,july 19

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 July 1870 · page 2

BEFORE his Honor Judge McFarland. Messrs. Walsh and Gannon, solicitors, were present. There were in all about forty cases, a large proportion of which were undefended, and verdicts were…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, July 20

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 July 1870 · page 2

Before Dr. Campbell and Mr. T. Barber. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.--Patrick McAnulty was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Senior-constable Hanghev said the prisoner…

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Young Police Court. Monday.(Before the Police Magistrate.) [?]AP[?]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

William Welsh, remanded from the previous Friday was again brought up. Dr. Temple deposed to having examined the girl Catherine Callaghan. He examined her on…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, July 20

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Thomas Coughlan, for allowing four head of cattle to stray in Montague-street, was fined 5. and 2s. 6d. costs…

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Goulburn District Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 4

THE sittings of this court were continued on Wednesday, before his Honor Judge McFarland. MARSDEN v. BLAY. Messrs. Walsh and Betts for plaintiff; Mr. Gannon…

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Brutal Murder at Hotham. — a Wife Beaten to Death

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

IN Baillie-street, Hotham, near Melbourne, for the last three or four years there has boon residing a fisherman named Patrick Smith, a married man, with one…

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Tuesday. (Before G. O’M. Clarice, Esq., P.M. and J. Broughton, Esq.)BALL V. LYNCH.—ASSAULT

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. Freestone for complainant asked for professional costs and stated that the assault was of an aggravated nature. Defendant pleaded provocation; fined…

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Local intelligence. Court of Requests. Monday.(Before G. O’M. Clarke, Esq., P.M., and Chas Temple, Esq., J.p.) [?]Hmidt V. MA[?]INA

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

Plaintiff sued for 9s. amount for goods sold and delivered. Defendant stated that he paid for the goods in question at the time he bought them, which statement was corroborated by a…

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Crown Lands. Sale at the Police Office. Queanbeyan, On Monday, 29th August. Country Lots

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 July 1870 · page 1

Lot A, 40 acres, county of Murray, parish of Tuggeranong, on the road from Murrumbidgee to Queanbeyan, adjacent to the north-casterp corner of M'Laron's 2560 acres. Selected by…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, July 25

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 July 1870 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Charles Crawshaw and Thomas Farrell on remand, were, charged with killing three sheep the property of G. H. Thorn…

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Another Attempted Murder

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon a horrible outrage was committed in Chancery-lane by a man named John Jermyn, who is believed to be insane. It appears that for some years past Jermyn has been employed…

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Murder Will Out

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 4

The police authorities at Cheadle, in North Staffordshire, are now engaged in endeavouring to ascertain the facts relating to a murder alleged to have been committed several years ago. Some years ago a…

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General News. Murder of a Warder

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 3

Scarcely twelve months have elapsed since Warder Trevitt was brutally murdered by a convict under sentence of penal servitude at Portland, than the island is again thrown into a state of excitement by…

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The Peer and Tee Police

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 2

At the Windsor Borough Potty Sessions two singular cross summonses for assault have been heard. In the first summons Thomas White, a policeman appointed during the races, was charged with…

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Law and Police Courts. Another Man in Petticoats

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 July 1870 · page 2

In the case of John Safford Fisk, who stands committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, on the charge of being concerned with Boulton, Park, and others in dressing in female attire, some difficulty has…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 2

Thomas Haycock, charged with unlawfully absconding from the hired service of Mr. W. R. Watt, was bound over to appear in Cowra on Thursday…

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Friday. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 2

OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. Louis Phillips, charged as above, was reminded until Saturday, Mr. Sub-inspector Roberts, who apprehended defendant being…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, July 27

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 July 1870 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Catherine Mc Kay was charged with stealing a shirt. many Mason deposed: I was at Mrs. Smith's…

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At the Police Office, Wagga Wagga On Monday, 29th August. Country Lots

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 August 1870 · page 1

Lots A, B, and C, 105 acres 3 roods, 157 acres 2 roods, and 100 acres respectively, county of Bourke, parish of Tooyal, on the road from Narrandora to Wagga Wagga, adjacent to Boss's…

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