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

Courts & crime, 1891

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Goulburn District Court. Friday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 4

BEFORE his Honor Judge Murray. BOROUGH OF GOULBURN V. CHARLES ROGERS. This was a claim of £19 13s 10d for general and lighting rates…

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Goulburn District Court. Thursday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 3

BEFORE his Honor Judge Murray. [?] ROGERS AND CO. V. F. SHEPHERD. This was a claim of £82 9s 5d for goods sold and delivered. The defendant had paid into…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 2

SITTING JUSTICES: Messrs. Meyer and Oliver CHILD DESERTION —John Beurke, who had been arested for child desertion by Constable Rose on a warrant issued by the Moss Vale…

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Goulburn District Court. Friday Afternoon. (Before his Honor Judge MURRAY.) G. BIGWOOD V. A. W. BALL

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 2

An action in which George Bigwood of Eastgrove claimed, £10 damage from A. W. Ball of Goulburn, for alleged injury to cattle by impounding. Mr. Davidson for plaintiff, Mr…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. S. Meyer and J. Oliver. CHILD DESERTION. Thomas Bourke, arrested on warrant by Constable Rose and charged with child desertion,…

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Fight in a Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

BATHURST, Monday.—It has transpired that three or four days ago a young prisoner in Bathurst Gaol who had previously quarrelled with an elderly follow-prisoner, took advantage…

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Death in the Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 4

AN inquest was held at the gaol on Saturday evening by Mr. Harold O'Brien, coroner, on the body of George Edward Clarke, a confinee, who died that day at 1 p.m…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Saturday, April 4. Before Colonel Chisholm, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.-- Thomas Boyle was summoned by Senior-constable Tracey for using obscene language in a public place on Easter Monday, and was fined £2 and costs, or one…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

SITTING JUSTICES : Messer. Meyer and Oliver. FALSE PRETENCES —E[?]nett T. Baxter, insurance agent, was change with obtaining £4 10/- from Essington Zouch by means of a…

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Young Police Court. Monday. Before S. Robinson, Esq., P.M. Indecent Behaviour

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

A man named William Cullen, with white hair and beard, pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecent behaviour in a lane at the back of the Salvation Army Barracks…

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Police Forage Contracts

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

THE following contracts for forage for the police for 1891-92 have been accepted:--Carcoar, S. E. Corderoy ; Crookwell, J. Keith; Dalton, J. Thorn; Goulburn,…

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Goulburn Small Debts Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

THE monthly sitting of the court was held yesterday before Mesers. Meyer, Clifford, and Oliver. The list contained seventeen cases, of which…

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Small Debts Court. Monday. Before S. Robinson, Esq., P.M.

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

J. McCreight v. Samuel Rose ; claim for commission on sale of land. Mr. Gordon appeared for defendant, who pleaded not indebted. The plaintiff, in his evidence, said that he did…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. S. Meyer and J. Oliver. LARCENY FROM TILL. Thomas Soften, alias Byrnes, was charged with stealing 13s from the till at McInnes's…

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Wednesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 April 1891 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs S. Meyer and J. Oliver. BRHACR OF TOWNS POLICE ACT. Leslie Puddicombe, and James Stevenson were each fined 2s 6d with 2s 6d costs for allowing…

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Cable News. The Murder of a Bulgarian Minister LONDON, April 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 April 1891 · page 2

The Bulgarian Government has up to the present been unable to discover the perpetrator of the murder of M. Belchiff, the Minister of Finance, who was assassinated at Sofia when…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 4

SITTING JUSTICES: Messrs. Meyer and Oliver. [?]LARCENY.—Thomas Self alias Byrne was change with stealing 13/- from the till at McInnes' Family Hotel…

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Stealing the Guillotine-knife

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 6

A very remarkable story about the guillotine-knife has been circulated in Paris (says the London Daily Telegraph). It was sedulously reported…

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Terrible Murder[?]and Burning of the Body

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 4

On the afternoon of the 31st ult., whist a boundary-rider named M. Call, employed on the Me[?]nagee [?] going his rounds as usual he came across a fire that…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday April 7. Before Colonel Chisholm. P. M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 2

ASSAULT. -- John Merriman appeared on summons to answer a charge of having, at the Gap, on the 27th March, unlawfully assaulted Louis Margules. Mr. Brennan for complainant. Mr. Wilkinson for…

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