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

Courts & crime, 1873

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Goulburn Quarter Sessions. Tuesday January 28. BEFORE District Court Judge Mc Farland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 30 January 1873 · page 2

Mr. E. Lee prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. The legal gentlemen present were Messrs. Gannon and Betts. Captain. Rossi acted as Clerk of Arraigns…

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Yass Police Court Roster

The Yass Courier · Friday 31 January 1873 · page 2

THE following is the roster at the Yass Police Court, from the 1st proximo till the end of the year. It is printed in such a manner as to make it of easy reference, and may be useful to the bench:--…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday , JANUARY 31. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 2

Thomas Griffin who only came out of gaol the day before gave himself up to the police as having no means of support. The Police Magistrate said that he had used…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, January 29

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Samuel Sell was charged with being of unsound mind. Constable Hughes deposed: I am stationed at…

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Attempted Murder at Rockhampton

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 6

THE whole town was shocked on the evening of the 17th January by the report that a painter, named George William Emmett, had attempted to murder his son, Willie…

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Goulburn District Court

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 4

THE business of this court was commenced on Thursday day morning before his Honor Judge Mc Farland. There were twenty oases on the shoot for hearing. Some were struck out and others were decided by his…

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District Court. Thursday, January 30. Before His Honor Judge Mc Farland a jury of four. Wakefield V, M’callum

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1873 · page 2

Mr. Betts appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Gannon for defendant. Plaintiff claimed £25 damages for non-delivery of certain sheep— and Increase as per agreement…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, February 1. Before the Police-Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1873 · page 2

In the afternoon sitting Matthew Clark, charged with stealing money the property of Sydney Lewis, was again brought up. [The first portion of this case appeared in our Saturday’s issue.]…

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Small Debts’ Court. Monday, February 3. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and W. Sheppard, Esq., J.P.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1873 · page 2

Nine cases were deposed of The following were defended :— Belcher v. Taylor;—Plaintiff claimed £10, as damages for the illegal impounding of seventeen…

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A Trial for Murder in Paris

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 February 1873 · page 4

CELESTIN HENRI LAGORCE entered, with a good salary, a wholesale draper's establishment in the Rue Sourdière, where he was still engaged on July 6, the date on which he admits he…

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Atrocious Murder in the Harbour. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1873 · page 3

THE city was startled yesterday morning by the intelligence that an elderly woman had been murdered in a boat in the harbour under suspicious circumstances. The murderer seems to have been…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, February 1

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1873 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate. Thomas Morriss was brought up, charged with having assaulted his wife in Auburn-street on Friday…

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A Double Murder

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1873 · page 4

A MR. JOSEPH WOOD owned some eighty or ninety acres of land near Cropton, about four miles from Pickering, and farmed them himself. He was rather eccentric in his…

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Gunning Police Court. Wednesday, February 5. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate of Goulburn and H. Saxby, Esq., J.P.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 6 February 1873 · page 2

Police v. Wm. Hazell; cutting bark on crown lands without license. The Bench, after hearing some evidence, decided that the case could not be sustained against defendant, and dismissed the…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, February 5. BEFORE Messrs. C. S. Alexander and J. J. Hayes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 6 February 1873 · page 2

Charles Thomas was charged with allowing two cows to stray in Sloane-street on three occasions. Defendant was fined 2s. 6d. with 2s. 6d costs, for each offence…

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The Murder in the Harbour. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 6 February 1873 · page 2

AN inquest was held at the City Coroner’s office, Hyde Park, Sydney, on the body of Mrs. Lee, the unfortunate woman whose dead body had been found floating in the harbour near Cremorne, early…

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Atrocious Murder in the Sydney Harbour

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 February 1873 · page 4

THE city was startled on Sunday morning by the intelligence that an elderly woman had been murdered in a boat in the harbour under Suspicious circumstances. which, so far as yet…

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The Late Murder in Sydney Harbour. Adjourned Inquest

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 February 1873 · page 2

AT 9 o'clock on Tuesday forenoon, the City Coroner resumed the inquest adjourned from the previous day, respecting the death of the woman Elizabeth Bodelia Lee. The man Scource, though…

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Collector Police Court. Friday, February 7. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate of Goulburn and the Collector bench

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 2

Teresa Cole, given into custody by her employer, Thomas Kimberley, was brought up. Senior-constable O’Brien said he received the girl into his custody as being of unsound mind; her…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, February 5

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. C. S. Alexander, J. J. Hayes, and W. Conolly. Charles Thomas was charged by the police with suffering two cows to stray on the 30th January, 31st…

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