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

Courts & crime, 1887

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday, March 8

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate Drunkenness.—One defendant (on bail) pleaded guilty and was fined 10/- or forty-eight hours in the lockup…

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To-day's Police Court. Thursday, March 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNKNESS. One man, for drunkenness, was fined 5s with the option of 24 hours in the lock-up. It was…

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Sheep-stealing at Burraga

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 2

AT the Burraga police court on the 18th ultimo, William King, residing near Peelwood, was charged with having in his possession one sheepskin reasonably…

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More Sheep-stealing at Burraga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 4

AT the Burraga Police Court on Friday, 18th February, before Messrs. T. A. Smith, P.M., and H. Hackney, J.P., William King, residing near Peelwood, was charged with having in his…

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Goulburn Police Court. Thursday, March 10

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 3

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Drunkenness.—Our defendant was find 5/- or twenty-four hours in the lockup. Unsound Mind.—James Bareloy was brought up…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, March 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. E. Gillespie. BOOTH LICENSE. On the application of Mr. Betts, booth licenses…

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Tuesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. MALICIOUSLY BREAKING A DOOR. Michael Sullivan was brought up in custody charged with maliciously breaking a door,…

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Micalago Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 4

THURSDAY, 3rd March, 1887, before Messrs. A. Ryrie and A. Peden, Js.P, John Dunn, Timothy Harrington, William Connolly, and another were charged with unlawfully, riotously,…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, March 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 4

Thomas Byrno was brought up on remand charged with the larceny, as a bailee, of a horse, saddle, and bridle, the property of Laurence Cullon…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, March 12

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 2

Larceny as a Bailee.—Thomas Byrne was charged with stealing a mare, saddle, and bridle the property of Laurence Cullen. Constable Rose deposed that on Friday he saw…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 March 1887 · page 2

DRUSCKSKKESS, ETC.—Matthew Irvine, for having been drank, was fined 2a 6d, or 24 hours imprisonment, and for having made use of obscene language, he was fined 17s 6d, in default of payment…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1887 · page 2

THE only business at the Police Court this morning was the hearing of charges of unsound mind preferred against a girl named Margaret Sheehan and a man named John Bartley, each…

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday, March 15

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 March 1887 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Maliciously Damaging Property.—Michael Sullivan pleaded guilty to wilfully breaking a door, the property of his father, Timothy Sullivan, and was…

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Alleged Assault at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 March 1887 · page 2

It will be remembered that at the December sittings of the Goulburn quarter-sessions a man named Michael O'Grady was charged with cutting and wounding…

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Goulburn Land Court

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 March 1887 · page 2

THE monthly sitting of this court was held on Tuesday before Messrs. Moriarty (chairman) and Deane. Mr. J. G. Rowlandson, inspector of conditional purchases was present…

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False Charge Against a Police Sergeant

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1887 · page 4

A GLEN INNES telegram of Tuesday to the Evening News says.—Some time ago a man named Delaney, a farmer of Claveraulx, made a charge against Senior-Sergeant Wells, of having…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, March 16. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 March 1887 · page 2

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.-- Edward Carroll junr., (half caste) was charged with being drunk and disorderly on the previous night, in Meehan-street…

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Goulburn Land Court

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 18 March 1887 · page 3

THE monthly meeting was held on Tuesday before Messrs. Moriarty (chairman) and Deane. Amongst the cases dealt with were the following: --…

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Court of Land Inquiry

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 March 1887 · page 2

A COURT of Land Inquiry was held in the Courthouse, yesterday, before Messrs. A. O. Moriarty (chairman) and J. F. Gray, when the following cases were dealt with…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 March 1887 · page 2

ASSAULT—Jane Ryan sued her husband, Thomas Ryan, proprietor of the Burrangong Hotel, on the Burrowa-road, for having assaulted her. Mr. Garraway appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr…

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