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

Courts & crime, 1887

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, March 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1887 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Henry Funnell was charged with cruelly illtreating a team of six horses by driving them…

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Goulburn District Court

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 2

AT the above court on Saturday last the following cases having a local interest were dealt with:--A. McInnes v. W. Smith.--Claim £75…

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Gunning Land Court

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 2

A LAND COURT was held at Gunning on Wednesday, the 16th, before Messrs. A. O. Moriarty (chairman), J. W. Gray, and G. D. Hay. The following were disposed…

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Suspected Horrible Outrage and Murder in Victoria

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 4

THE Sandhurst correspondent of the Melbourne Argus gives the following particulars of a dreadful crime, of which brief mention has been made by telegraph:--The body of a…

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Small Debts Court. Before same magistrates

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 2

Broderick v. Burgess:--Claim for £3 15, balance due on thirty pairs of turkeys sold by plaintiff to defendant. The Case arose out of a dispute as to the price…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions Tuesday, March 22; Before Mr. Buchanan. P.M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 2

VAGRANCY.--William Pike was charged with vagrancy and was discharged, but subsequently an order was made for his admission to the Liverpool Benevolent Asylum…

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Crookwell Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, March 21. Before Messrs. S. L. COX and A. A. Carter

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 March 1887 · page 2

John Glanville, of Grabben Gullen, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, of using obscene language, and of furious riding--all occurring in…

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Saturday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. Macarthur, C.P.S. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was fined 5s with the a alternative of 24 hours to the lockup…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, March 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1887 · page 6

BEFORE the police-Magistrate. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. Bernard Gibney was charged with behaving in an indecent manner in Sloane-street near the…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Saturday, March 26. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 2

UNSOUND MIND.-- Lottete F. Setzer on remand was again brought before the court, and the report from the medical officer being to the effect that she was recovered, she was discharged,…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, March 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. James Norman (a stranger) pleaded guilty to this offence, and was fined 2Os, with the alternatives…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, March 26

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 3

BEFORE Mr. Macarthur Drunkenness.—Two defendants were each fined 5/- or twenty-four hours in the the lockup…

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Ministerial Visit to Berrima Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 2

MR. CLARKE, Minister for Justice, in company with Mr. Harold Maelean, Comptroller-General of Prisons, Mr. C. S. Alexander, Police-Magistrate at Goulburn, Dr. Ray, and others visited…

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A Murder Prevented by a Dog

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 4

By the fidelity of his dog, a farmer living at Castelnaudary, France, has been saved from being murdered. The farmer had just…

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Central Criminal Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 4

Charles Wilson, a boy, between 12 and 13 years of age, was found guilty upon a charge of having placed an obstruction upon the Great Western Railway line…

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Central Criminal Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 2

ON Monday his Honor Acting-Judge Stephens passed the following sentences:—Thomas Egan, attempted rape, 12 years' penal servitude; William Boughton, bigamy, four years' penal…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 4

Before Messrs. Cox and Carter. Broderick v. Burgess.—Claim for £3 15s, balance due on 30 pairs of turkeys sold by plaintiff to defendant. After hearing an amount of…

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Crookwell. Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, March 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. S.L. Cox and A. A. Carter. John Glanville, of Grabben Gallen, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, of using obscene language, and of furious riding-all…

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Disorderly Proceedings in a Court of Petty Sessions

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 March 1887 · page 4

THE following account of an application for an auctioneer's license at the Court of Petty Sessions, Boat Harbour, before Mr. Herbert Dillon, P.M., and Mr. H. Bennett, J.P., on…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 2

Drunkenness,-etc.—Ellen Taylor was fined 2 6d, or 24 hours’ imprisonment, for having been drunk ;. 8s, or 24 hours', for breaking three panes of glass in a window belonging to Mr. G…

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