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

Courts & crime, 1889

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1889 · page 2

Before the police- Magistrate and Messrs. R. Henderson and E. Ball, Js.P. DRUNKENNESS. One man pleaded guilty to a charge of having…

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Crookwell. Police COURT.—Thursday, December 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1889 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Cox and Gunn. Charles Baily pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and using obscene language. Fined 10s for drunkenness, and 20s for using obscene…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, December 29

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1889 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate INDECENT LANGUAGE.—William Myers was charged with using indecent language. Mr. Davidson appeared for the defence…

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Shocking Murder in a Lunatic Asylum

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1889 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Archibald Hunter, aged about 44, a married man, who had been employed at the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum for about 6 years in change of a cottage, was found…

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Binalong Police Court. Friday, 28Th December. Before Messrs. Wotton, P.M., and J. J. Garry, J.P.

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 January 1889 · page 2

BREACH OF THE RAILWAY BY-LAWS.-- A man was charged at the instance of Mr. S. E. Crook, railway stationmaster, with having been in a state of intoxication at the…

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Local & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 January 1889 · page 2

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. Before Colonel Chisholm, P.M. DRUNKENNESS.-- Michael Quinn was charged with being drunk in Cooma-street, the…

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To-day's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 2

Before the Police-Magistrate. LARCENY. George Jeffrey, 17, was charged with stealing a bottle of brandy, the property of Edward…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, January 2

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 2
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BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr.Orridge. DRUNKENNESS.—One defendant was tined 5/- or twenty-four hours. BREACHES OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—Joseph Moffat was charged with extinguishing a street lamp on the…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Albert Pritchard, residing at Wollongabba, came home drunk on New Year's Eve, took the baby and attempted to cut its throat. His wife rescued the child…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 2

THE monthly sitting of this court was held yesterday (Tuesday being a public holiday), before the Police Magistrate. The list contained eleven cases, of which two were settled, one was struck out, and…

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The Boy Murder at Bradford. LONDON, Jan. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 4

An inquest was commenced yesterday into the circumstances attending the murder and horrible mutilation of a boy at Bradford. A milkman named Barrett is in custody on…

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Burrowa Police Court. Monday, December 31. (Before Mr. Wotton, P.M., and Mr. A. E. Middleton, J.p.) Assault

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 2

John Manyon, of Vive Mile Creek, summoned Joseph Smith, of Old Man Gunyah Creek, for assault, and there was a summons Smith against Manyon for…

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Shocking Murder in a Lunatic Asylum

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Melbourue states that Archibald Hunter, aged about 44, a married man, who had been employed at the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum for about…

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Binalong Police Court. Friday, December 28. (Before Mr. Wotton, P.M., and J. J. Garry, J.P.

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 2

A man was charged at the instance of Mr. S. E. Crook, railway stationmaster, with having been in a state of intoxication at the Binalong railway station, on…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, January 1. Before Colonel Chisholm, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 2

ALLEGED FORGERY.-- Owen Horkins was charged with forging the name of David Copeland to an order, for the pay met of £15 10s. Senior-constable Tracey proved arresting the…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 2

Drunk, ETC.—Joseph Connell, who had been on Tuesday fined 2s 6d, or imprisonment till the rising of the court, was again brought up on Wednesday, charged with having been drunk, and…

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The Queanbeyan Police-Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 4

IT was stated on Friday that Mr. J. C. Woore, ex-police magistrate at Queanbeyan, had been appointed by the Executive Council to the position of Acting-City…

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Goulburn Police Court. Thursday, January 3

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, LARCENY.—George Jeffery (seventeen), on remand, was charged with stealing on let instant, a bottle of brandy belonging to Edward Forty, license of…

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Assault by a Chinaman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 4

ON Friday afternoon a little girl, named Ettie Glading, living with her parents in Rountree-street, Balmain, was Playing with her two sister in Birchgrove Reserve,…

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