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

Courts & crime, 1889

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, January 23. Before Colonel Chisholm, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 January 1889 · page 2

VAGRANCY.-- Elizabeth Hains was charged with this offence. Inspector Brennan deposed the defendant gave herself up this morning to the police; she…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, January 25. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. ASSAULT

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 6

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. ASSAULT. John O'Brien was summoned for assaulting Thomas Potter. There was no appearance on…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, January 28. BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1889 · page 5

One man (on bail) was charged with being drunk whilst in charge of a horse and dray in Auburn-street. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s with the alternative of 48 hours to…

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Tuesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1889 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One man pleaded guilty to this offence, and was fined 20s, with the alternative of seven days…

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Crookwell. Police COURT.—Monday, January 21st

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1889 · page 5

BEFORE Messrs. J. Green, S. L. Cox, and H. J. Bell. Thomas O'Brien was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with using obscene…

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Wrongly Sentenced to Imprisonment for Life. Plaster Cast Foot Prints at Fault

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 February 1889 · page 4

In the House of Commonson November 18, reference was made to the confession of a man, who hit alleged that he and another committed a burglary at…

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Goulburn Police Court. Friday, February 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 6

Elizabeth White was brought up under the Vagrant Act charged with having no lawful visible means of support. Constable McHardy deposed: About eleven…

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Crookwell. Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 4

Matthew Lynch (on bail) pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language. Find 5s and 4s 10d costs. John White and Jas. Glanville, charged with…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, February 4

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. James Clifford UNSOUND MIND.—Edward J. Ladyman was brought up on remand as being of unsound mind…

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Gunning. Police COURT.—Friday, 1st February

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 4

BEFORE Major Chisholm, P.M., and Mr. J. S. Stands, J.P. James Merriman was charged with being drunk in Chapel-street, Dalton, on the 29th of…

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The Hans Olund Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2

ON Thursday last a boy passing along the Burrangong Creek, and near the town, looking down a hole, the water in which had dried up, noticed a stick projecting from the muddy…

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District Court

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2

THE following is a list of the cases for hearing at the Yass District Court, opening to-morrow, the 6th instant:-- Thomas Prior v Marshall, senior, work done,…

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Goulburn Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2

THE monthly sitting of the above court was held this (Tuesday) forenoon before Mr. C. S. Alexander, Police-Magistrate. There was a fairly long list of cases, but a good many of…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, February I. Before Mr. T. Colls, M.P., J.P.

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 February 1889 · page 2

OBSCENE LANGUAGE. -- James Fitzgibbons was charged with using obscene language on the previous day, to which he pleaded guilty. THREATENING LANGUAGE.--The same…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 2

Francis F. Evans was charged with unlawfully deserting his illegitimate child. Mr. Betts appeared for the defendant, and stated that the case had been settled between…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, February 6

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. J. Clifford PROTECTION.—Edward Charles Sinelair, Alica Louisa Sinclair, and James Richard Sinclair, children on remand, were brought up for protection…

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Verdict of Wilful Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 4

THE inquest concerning the death of the seaman, Andrew Mallander, who was stabbed in Gloucester-street, Sydney, on Saturday night, during a quarrel with another seaman named…

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The Bradford Boy Murder. LONDON, Feb. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 February 1889 · page 4

The inquest on the boy Gill, who was murdered and horribly mutilated in Bradford on December 29, resulted yesterday in a verdict of wilful murder against the milkman William…

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