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

Courts & crime, 1889

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Serious Assault on a Woman in Adelaide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

Adelaide, Thursday.—An assault of a serious nature is alleged to have been perpetrated in Adelaide on Tuesday morning. Eleven or 12 men entered the house of a middle aged woman…

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The Assault on a Woman in Adelaide

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

ADELAIDE, Friday.—At the City Police Court to-day 13 young men, whose ages range from 15 to 24, were charged with assaulting a married woman named…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 7

THE monthly sitting of this court was held on Wednesday before the Police-Magistrate. Several cases were settled out of court. UNDEFENDED CASES…

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Horrible Murder in America. LONDON, Jan. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

A horrible murder is reported from Philadelphia, United States. A boarding-house keeper named Schloops has confessed that he was so enraged at the gluttony…

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Attempted Murder in Glasgow. LONDON, Jan. 3

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

A horrible attempt at murder and mutilation is reported from Glasgow. A young man named Stevenson, 19 years of age, stabbed a prostitute in the neck and then in…

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The Murder at the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday—Howard, the lunatic, who was suspected of the murder of Warder Hunter at the Yarra Bend Asylum, has confessed to the murder. He says:—"When I first came…

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The Boy Murder at Bradford. LONDON, Jan. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

The inquest was resumed to-day at Bradford on the body of the boy found murdered and horribly mutilated. The man Barrett, a milkman, who is in…

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Latest Intelligence. Horrible Murder at Young. Young, Saturday, 12.35 p.m

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

A TERRIBLE murder was perpetrated here early this morning near the Burrangong Hotel, the victim being a hawker named Hans Olun, a German Jew well known about the town…

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The Brutal Murder at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 January 1889 · page 4

FURTHER particulars state that Casey, the man who roused Mr. Mansfield, lives in a tent about 80 yards from the scene of the murder. He says his attention was first attracted by…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, January 4. Before Mr. M. Tartakover, J. P.

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 January 1889 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—Ellen Hughes was charged with this offence, to which she pleaded guilty. The case was heard in the clerk of Petty Sessions office, and the accused declared it…

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The Murder of a Hawker near Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 January 1889 · page 4

BURROWA, Tuesday.—Isaac Sawyer, 21 years of ago, was brought up at the police court this morning, charged with the murder of the German hawker, Hans Olund, near Young, and was…

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Burrowa Police Court. Tuesday, January 8. (Before Mr. Wotton, P.m.) Alleged Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 2

Isaac Sawyer, 21 years of age, was charged with the wilful murder of Hans Olund, at Young, on the night of the 4th inst…

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Horrible Murder at Young

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 2

A BRUTAL murder took place on Friday night on the main Young to Burrows road, within the Young borough boundary, about three-quarters of a mile from…

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The Late Horrible Murder at Young

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 2

THE following is the principal evidence taken at the inquest, held at Young on Saturday last:-- John T. Heeley deposed : I am Government…

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The Murder at a Lunatic Asylum

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Melbourne states that Howard, the lunatic, who was suspected of the murder of Warder Hunter at the Yarra Bend Asylum, has confessed to the…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, January 8. Before Colonel Chisholm, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 January 1889 · page 2

DISOBEYING A WARRANT.--James Leonard was summoned by his wife, for maintenance, and against whom a warrant was issued, was brought before the court…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, January 11. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. J. W. Wombey, J.P. Absenting From Their Apprenticeship

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 3

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. J. W. Wombey, J.P. ABSENTING FROM THEIR APPRENTICESHIP. John Hartley and Cornelius Edwin Taylor…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, January 11

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Wombey. ABSCONDING FROM THEIR APPRENTICESHIP.—John Hartley and Cornelius Taylor pleaded guilty to absconding from their apprenticeship to Henry Baxter…

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Goulburn Licensing Court

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 4

YESTERDAY was the day appointed for the holding of the quarterly meeting of this court, but upon its opening, the Chairman, the only member of the bench present, said he had received a letter from Mr…

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Scene in an Irish Court. LONDON, Jan. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 4

Mr. Thomas J. Condon, M.P. for East Tipperary and Mayor of Clonmel, a town and Parliamentary borough, was summoned to appear to-day before the local court, charged with…

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