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

Courts & crime, 1881

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, April 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 5
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John Kane, an old man, gave himself up for protection and having no means of port, and was sent to gaol for seven days pending an application for his admission to…

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Local Intelligence. Young Police Court. Wednesday. (Before Messrs. H. A. Smith and F. A Brook J’s. P.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 2

Thomas Colds pleaded guilty to drunkenness disorderly conduct, and was fined 10s or 24 hours. The same pleaded guilty to making use of…

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Crown Land Sales. at the Police-office, Gunning, On Wednesday, 11th May, Country Lots

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1881 · page 6

Lot A, 110 acres, county of King, parish Dalton, on the road from Gunning to Dalton, lying between James Browne's conditional purchase portion No. 276 of 4¼ acres, and…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, April 23

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 April 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. King and Alexander. Larceny.—John Smith (on remand) charged with stealing a pair of gloves was again brought up. Mr. H. S. Gannon for defence…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Saturday, April 23. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1881 · page 2

UNSOUND MIND. -- John Baker was charged on suspicion of being of unsound mind, occasioned by excessive drinking. Prisoner was sent to Yass gaol for seven days…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, April 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. King and Alexander. Mr. Gannon applied on behalf of Ellen Brogan, of the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Collector, for an extension of her license to the…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 27 April 1881 · page 2

Len Gee was charged with an attempt to steal washdirt the property of N. Penrose. Constable Murphy deposed : I have known accused some time i saw him in town about five…

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday, April 26

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 27 April 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Alexander and Marsden. Vagrancy.—Alexander McPherson, aged seventeen, was charged with vagrancy. Senior-sergeant Penton deposed; Shortly after six…

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Tuesday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Dr. Hesley J.P.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 27 April 1881 · page 2

Choy Quin was charged with assaulting Westley Brown. Mr. Russell appeared for the defence and pleaded not guilty. Complainant, a lad fifteen years of age,…

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Insolvency Court.—monday, April 25. (Before the Acting Chief Commissioner.) Examination Meetings

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 27 April 1881 · page 2

In the matter of Jane Ousby. Insolvent was examined by Mr. Manning, who appeared for the official assignee, and deposed; She was the mother of James Ousby, and the…

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Queanbeyan. Police Court, Tuesday, April 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1881 · page 3

Before the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Wright. Albert Schofield was charged by Constable Mc Donogh with behaving riotously in…

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday Afternoon, April 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1881 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Alexander and Marsden The case against Richard Morton alias Fletcher and George Harris (two strangers), for stealing three Il.-notes and a purse, the…

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Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, April 27. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 April 1881 · page 2

ILL-TREATING A HORSE.--Constable Naghten v. Alfred Newman, for having, on the 23rd April, in Rossi-street, cruelly ill-treated a black horse, by working it in saddle while suffering…

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Novel Proceedings in a Supreme Court

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 April 1881 · page 4

THE heroine in the following narrative, furnished by the Auckland correspondent of the Otago Times, to that journal is not altogether unknown in Sydney:--…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 2

John M’Mahon pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and was fined 2s. 6d. or to go to gaol till 5 o’clock. Thomas Oulds pleaded guilty through Mr…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, Afternoon

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Alexander and A. S. Chisholm. Stealing from a Dwelling.—On resuming at half-past two o'clock the case of John Smith, charged with stealing certain money the property of Henry…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, April 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 5

BEFORE Messrs. King and C. S. Alexander. John Smith (on remand) was charged with stealing a gold pin, scarf, handkerchiefs, collars, and a shirt, the property of Edward…

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The Bathurst Assault Case

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 April 1881 · page 3

Daniel Mayne, Oil bail, was charged at the police Court with having) on the night of the 18th instant, inflicted grievous bodily harm upon James E. Tonkin…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, May 2

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 May 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Vess and Alexander. Miscendent as an Apprentice.-John Fox was charged with absenting himself from his service as apprentice to W. T. Wood and Co…

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