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

Courts & crime, 1874

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, April 28. Before Mr. Williams

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 May 1874 · page 2

RAPE.--William Hambly was charged with having, on Monday morning, the 27th inst., committed a rape on the person of Ellen Reynolds…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, April 29

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 May 1874 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate and Mr. Sheppard. Denis O'Brien was charged with using threatening language to his wife, Catherine O'Brien. Catherine O'Brien deposed: Yesterday defendant…

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Assault on Parents Near Bungendore

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 May 1874 · page 8

ON Wednesday, before the police-magistrate at Queanbeyan, Francis Lawless and William Lawless were brought up in custody charged with having, at Neill's' Creek, near…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, May 1St. Before C. S. Alexander, Esq., J.P.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1874 · page 2

THREATENING LANGUAGE.—Bernard Mc Inverney was charged with using threatening language to Denis Brady. The defendant pleaded not guilty…

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Deniliquin Circuit Court. Civil Sittings, April 24

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 May 1874 · page 3

BEFORE his Honor the Chief-justice and a jury of four J. T. JOACHIM V. O'SHANASSY. In this case the plaintiff was an infant, sueing by…

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Collector Police Court. Friday, May 1. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate of Goulburn and the Collector bench

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1874 · page 2

Police v. Mary Paine ; breach of the Licensed Publicans’ Act.—This case had been adjourned on two previous monthly court days. Defendant now appeared on a fourth, summons for the same…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, May 4. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Conolly, J. W. Chisholm, and F. S. Cohen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1874 · page 2

Twenty-one cases in the small debts court were disposed of, of which the following is the most important. Borough of Goulburn v. Samuel Ferguson : claim…

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Government Gazette. Sale of Crown Lands. at the Police Office, Wagga Wagga, On Friday the 29th May, 1874. Country Lots

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 May 1874 · page 3

Lot A, 40 acres, county of Urana, parish of Urangeline, adjoining the southern boundary of Robert Rand's portion No. 48 of 272 acres 1 rood. Urangeline run. Selected by Walter Carrington…

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Collector Police Court. Friday, May 1

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 May 1874 · page 2

BEFORE the police-magistrate of Goulburn and the Collector bench. Police v. Mary Payne; breach of Licensed Publicans Act. This case had been adjourned on two previous…

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Goulburn Small Debts Court. Monday, May 4

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 May 1874 · page 2

Before the police-magistrate and Messrs. J. W. Chi[?]bolm, Sheppard, Conolly, and Cohen. Twenty-one cases in the small debts court were disposed of, none of which were of any public interest…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, May 6. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Marsden and Sheppard

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1874 · page 2

One drunkard was brought op and discharged. ASSAULT.—Robert Cooper was summoned by Jemima Byrne for unlawfully assaulting her. Mr. Gannon for the defence…

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Murder by Mistake

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 May 1874 · page 4

It was my fortune, in the year eighteen hundred and--, to be quartered with my regiment in the Bermudas, that picturesque group of coral-formed islands, which by a…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, May 8. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Sheppard

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1874 · page 2

LARCENY.—George Stewart was brought up in custody on a charge of stealing a pair of trousers, the property of Stephen Manson, Constable Bourke deposed : Yesterday afternoon…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, May 6

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 May 1874 · page 4

BEFORE the police-magistrate and Messrs. T. Marsden and Sheppard. Robert Cooper, aged 13, was charged with assaulting Jemima Byrne…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, May 11. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Sheppard

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1874 · page 2

Two persona were brought up for being drunk in a public place. One was fined 10s. or 48 hours in gaol, and the other 40s. or seven days in gaol. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS—John Larkham was…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, May 8. Before Mr. Yates

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 May 1874 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.-- A man named Fyfe was charged with this offence. Mr. Windeyer appeared for the prisoner, and stated that it was his first offence…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, May 13. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Sheppard

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1874 · page 2

One drunkard was brought up and fined 20s., or seven days’ imprisonment; another, for a similar offence, was discharged. PROFANE LANGUAGE. — James Donolly was…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, May 12

The Yass Courier · Friday 15 May 1874 · page 2

Before the Mayor (Mr. Cottrell) and Mr. Yates. New Publican.—A license was granted to Mr. J. R. Rowen, of Manton's Creek, for his house, to be nailed "The Manton's Creek Hotel."…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, May 15. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Sheppard

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1874 · page 2

OBSCENE. LANGUAGE.—John Quinn, an old man about sixty years of age, was charged with using obscene language in a public place. Defendant pleaded not guilty…

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