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

Courts & crime, 1892

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1892 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. SHEEP-STEALING.—Bryan Joseph Brogan, on remand, was charged with stealing, on or about the 12th March from Tirranna, 320…

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Cold-blooded Murder

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1892 · page 3

CONDOBOLIN, Saturday.--A young man named George Ryan was shot dead on Thursday afternoon by William Stone on Euabalong-road about two miles from Condobolin. A good deal…

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Crookwell Police Court. Monday, March 21. BEFORE Messrs. Broderick and Worrall

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1892 · page 3

William Bensley jun. was summoned by Thomas McFarlane for assaulting his son Thomas B. McFarlane, a boy about 16 years of ago, on the 16th instant; and…

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Small Debts Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1892 · page 3

A. J. Storrier v. E. W. Bolton; claim of £4 192, for meat sold and delivered. No appearance of defendant. Mr. Malcolm appeared for the complainant. Verdict…

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Alleged Sheep-stealing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1892 · page 4

AT the Goulburn Police Court on Tuesday morning before the Police-Magistrate, Brian Joseph Brogan drover, living in Goulburn, was arraigned on a charge of stealing 300 sheep, the property of A. G…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 3

BEFORE Mr. J. Clifford. DISORDERLINESS.—For drunkeness Edward Deveraux was fined 5/- or twenty-four hours, and for indecent behaviour 20/- or three days…

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The Windsor Murder

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 4

THE S.M. Herald states that Detective Cawsey has been informed through a private channel that Williams has confessed, not only to the Rainhill murders, but also to the…

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Murder Near Condorolin

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 2

A YOUNG MAN named George Ryan was shot dead on Thursday evening by another man named William Stone, of the Euabalong-road, two miles from…

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Windsor Murder London, March 22

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 2

The relations of Emily Mather, the victim of the Windsor murder, have identified some of the articles reported as forming portion of the luggage of Baron Swanston the man arrested at the South--…

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Binalong Small Debts Court. Friday, March 18

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate. John Ryan v. John P. Ryan; claim of £5 for cash lent. No appearance. E. Tracey v. J. Whitfield; claim of £5 12s…

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Burrowa District Court. Wednesday, March 22. (Before Hit Honor Acting-Judge Harm.)UNDEFENDED CASES

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 2

Harris Levy v. S. G. Palmer.—£14 12s., dishonoured P.N. No appearance of eicher parties. Case struck out. William Okley v. Cecil E. A. Middleton…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, March 21. Before Colonel Chisholm, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.--John Reedy was brought up charged with drunkenness. Fined 5s, or imprisonment until the rising of the court. ABSCONDING FROM APPRENTICESHIP.--Richard…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1892 · page 3

AT the Police Court on Friday morning Edward Dovirell was fined 6s or 24 hours for drunkenness, and 20s, or levy and distress, for indecent behaviour in the show-ground on Thursday…

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Nearly a Shocking Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1892 · page 4

AN elderly man named Colin Curry was charged at the Parramatta Court on Friday (before Messrs. F. M. Edwards, P.M., and R. Harper, J.P.) with assaulting Mrs. Mary…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1892 · page 7

A. J. Storrier v. E. W. Bolton; claim of £4 19s 2d for meat sold and delivered. No appearance of defendant. Mr. Malcolm appeared for the complainant. Verdict for the amount claimed, with…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1892 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Hammond. POCKET-PICKING.—George Williams (a stranger), seventeen years of age, was charged…

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The Windsor Murder

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1892 · page 2

SWANSTON (alias Deeming alias Williams) left Perth (W.A.) on Friday and reached Albany on Saturday. There were riotous scenes along the route, the prisoner being greeted at several…

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The Windsor Murder. a Concise History of the Case

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1892 · page 4

A GREAT deal has been published about the proceedings and past adventures and crimes attributed to Williams or Deeming; but it has…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday, March 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1892 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. E. Ball and J. Oliver. FORGERY AND UTTERING. Florence Anderson, or Florence Mary Henderson,…

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The Windsor Murder

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1892 · page 2

MR. H. H. BUDD, solicitor of Melbourne, has undertaken the defence of Deeming (alias Williams). It is understood that Deeming's main line of defence will be a plea of…

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