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

Courts & crime, 1872

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, February 7

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1872 · page 4

BEFORE Captain Rossi, and Messrs. C. S. Alexander and Sheppard. Patrick Malone was charged with evading the payment of a toll…

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Police Court. Monday, February 12. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and A. G. De Lauret Esq. J. P.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1872 · page 2

LARCENY.—William Roach was brought up charged with stealing two pocket knives from the Medical Hall. F. Diamond, sworn, said: I saw prisoner…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, February 9. Before Mr. Williams, Mr. Barber, and Mr. McBean

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 13 February 1872 · page 2

SLY GROG SELLING.--Mary Dwyor V. J. D. Green, adjourned from the 1st instant. Mr. Wilkinson appeared for complainant, and Mr. Allman for defendant…

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Collector Police Court. Tuesday, February 6

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 February 1872 · page 2

BEFORE John J. Waddell and Andrew S. Chisholm, Easq., J.P's. Thomas Hadlow appeared on bail to answer to a charge of having neglected and refused to comply…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, February 10

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 February 1872 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. William Roche, charged with stealing two knives from the Medical Hall, was remanded till Monday, 12th instant…

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Police Court. Tuesday, February 13. BEFORE the Police Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1872 · page 2

PROTECTION.— Thomas Moses Bulger was brought up under the Industrial Schools’ Act. Thomas Bulger, sworn, said: I live in Goulburn; the buy is nine years old; he is quite beyond my…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, February 11. Before Mr. Williams

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 February 1872 · page 2

SLY GROG SELLING.--M.Dwyer [?]. J. D. Green. Mr. Wilkinson appeared for complainant, and Mr. Allman for defendant. His worship stated that the case would have to…

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Police Court. Friday, February 16. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Shepphere

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 2

James Moran appeared on summons charged by Emily Smith with deserting his illegitimate child. Mr. Betts appeared for the defendant and stated that the complainant had been married since she…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, February 14

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1872 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate and the Honorable R. Owen. John Riley was charged with robbing an orchard. Constable Lloyd deposed: I was sent for on…

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Police Court. Monday, February 19. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Dr. Morton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1872 · page 2

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL’S ACT. —James Hill, a lad 12 years old, was sentenced to 48 hours, imprisonment on Saturday last for stealing a handkerchief; was again brought up to be dealt with having…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, February 17

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1872 · page 2

BEFORE the police magistrate. James Hill, a boy about thirteen years old, was charged with breaking into and stealing from a dwelling-house…

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Wilful Murder

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1872 · page 4

The Wellington correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch says:—A young man named James Horwood was, on Thursday last, committed to take his…

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Scene in a Queensland Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1872 · page 4

AT a trial of the Mc Kenzies, Forrester, and Solomon, at Dalby, for stealing cattle from the Bowen Downs Company, Mr. Morehead (of Morehead and Young) was being examined, when the following…

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Police Court. Wednesday, February 21. BEFORE the Police Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1872 · page 2

One drunkard was discharged. Thomas Mc Brien, for using obscene language, was fined 5s. or forty-eight hours in gaol. James Biffin, for using profane language, was…

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Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, 20Th February. Before his Honor Judge Mc Farland. ASSAULT

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1872 · page 2

Samuel Burgess of Towrang on bail, was placed in the dock charged with having assaulted Patrick Murray a neighbour by striking and knocking him down on the 10th February…

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Local and General. Yass District Court

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 February 1872 · page 2

THIS court will open at Yass on Wednesday next, the 28th instant. The following is a list of the cases to be disposed of:-- 1. Henri Bequet v. Rees Jones-- broach of…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 February 1872 · page 2

Patrick Cox was charged by Sen-Constable Gibbons, with having no lawful means of support Gibbon said the found him last night under the verandah of Tattersall’s Hotel, and that he…

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Police Court. Sheep Straling

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 February 1872 · page 2

Thomas Hickey, on remind for stealing sheep, the property of Mr Wolman, was committed, for trial to the next Court ..of .Quarter Sessions at Young…

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Police Court. Friday, February 23. BEFORE the Police Magistrate anti A. G. De Lauret Esq., J.P.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1872 · page 2

One drunkard was brought up and discharged. LARCENY.— Thomas Calliss was brought up charged with stealing a swag Thomas Doherty of Morowollen…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, February 21

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 February 1872 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Thomas Mc Brien, for using obscene language, and James Biffin, for using profane language, were severally fined 5s. or forty-eight hours in gool…

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