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

Courts & crime, 1890

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Land Court of New South Wales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 6

A SITTING of the above was held at the Goulburn Court-house yesterday before Mr. Rogers (president) and Messrs. Freeman and Brandis; Mr. A. P. Cannaway (barrister), Mr. N. T…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, April 21

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

BEFORE Messrs. Huthwaite and Hammond. DRUNKENNESS.—Two defendants pleaded guilty. One being an old offender was fined 40/- or forty-eight hours, and the other 5/- or…

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Crookwell Police Court. Monday, April 21

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. W. S. Gunn, A. A. Carter, and James Worrall. James Howard was charged with unlawfully removing sand from Crown land…

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The Wagga Murder

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

SMITH the alleged murderer, is in the Wagga hospital and the medical authorities have found that an abscess has formed at the back of the throat, but decided not…

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The Murder Near Wagga

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

THE unexpected always happens, and so in this case of the tragedy which happened in the Wagga district on Monday, 7th April, inst. Details of the occurrence have appeared during the past week in…

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The Road Murder. LONDON, April 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

Constance Kent, who was tried on July 21' 1865, for the murder of her brother, Francis Savile Kent, and was sentenced to death, the sentence being commuted to penal servitude for…

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Goulburn Circuit Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 4

THIS court was opened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning before his Honor Mr. Justice Stephen, Mr. Field prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, assisted by Mr. J. Williams, from the Crown…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Monday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

Edwin Ford was charged with having, at Goulburn, on the 31st March, falsely pretended to Patrick Kennedy that he was the owner of a chestnut mare, and on the strength of such false…

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The Land Court at Goulburn

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

ON Friday the sitting of the Land Court was held in the courthouse, all the members being present. Mr. Betts, on behalf of the legal profession, congratulated the…

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Local & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Monday April 21. Larceny of a Bridle

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 April 1890 · page 2

John Maguinness was charged with stealing a bridle, the property of one Lett. Mr. Wilkinson appeared for the defendant, and applied for an adjournment of the case…

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Young Police Court. Saturday. Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. Moses Brown, J.P.

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—Charles Organ was charged with drunkenness, and was fined 2s 6d. DRUNKENNESS.—John McLaughlin, for a similar offence, was lined 2s 6d or 24 hours…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1890 · page 2

The little girl named Flora Dunnett, about 13 years of age, who on Wednesday was convicted of obtaining money by false pretences and discharged in order that she might be otherwise…

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Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, April 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1890 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Herald

Flora Dunnell, a little girl about 13 years of age, was charged with obtaining money by means of false pretences from Mary Donnelly. Constable Farrell deposed : About half-past…

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Crookwell. Police Court—monday, April 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1890 · page 4

James Howard was charged with unlawfully removing sand from Crown land. The Bench believing that defendant was ignorant of the law, and as he had since taken out a license,…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Civil Side

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1890 · page 2

The business in connection with the civil side of the Circuit Court was commenced immediately after the conclusion of the criminal business before his Honor Mr. Justice Stephen. Mr. G. H…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1890 · page 4

The following is the continuation of the case against James Hall and Arthur Dempsey, on a charge of stealing cattle the property of Henry Carr. The first portion will be found in another…

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Married in Gaol

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 3

AT the Maitland Circuit Court on Thursday Jas. Cousins pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting Fanny Elizabeth Hawkins at Tighe's Hill on November 13,…

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A Queensland Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon last a surveyor who has been at work in the Sandgate (Queensland) district found the body of a man named Germain Dubro[?]ca in the…

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