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

Courts & crime, 1892

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Goulburn Circuit Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 3

BEFORE his Honor Sir George Innes. CIVIL SIDE. H. S. GANNON V. W. E. 'D' ARCY. This was a claim of £1000 for libel published in a…

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The Windsor Murder. the Trial of Williams. Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1892 · page 4

AN application to postpone the trial of Deeming, alias Williams, for the Windsor murder, to next sessions, was made to Mr. Justice Hodges to-day in the Criminal Court. The affidavit of Mr…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 April 1892 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. UNSOUND MIND.—Frances Piercey was brought up on remand as being of unsound mind…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1892 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. E. J. Ball and J. Oliver. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. William Fitzgibbon was fined 10s or three days to gaol for being drunk and disorderly in…

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The Windsor Murder. London, April 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1892 · page 2

THE lawyers retained by Albert Deeming, brother of Frederick Bayley Deming, alias Williams, now awaiting trial in the Melbourne gaol for the Windsor murder, hope to be able to collect…

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The Windsor Murder. the Trial of Williams

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1892 · page 2

A telegram to the Herald of Friday states:-- An application to postpone the trial of Deeming, alias Williams, for the Windsor murder, to next sessions was made to Mr. Justice Hodges to-day in…

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Cable News. the Windsor Murder. London, April 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1892 · page 4

The relatives of Mrs. Williams, the victim of the Windsor murder, assert that when she left England with her husband she had in her possession £50 in cash…

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

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1892 · page 2

THREATENING LANGUAGE.-- John Reedy was summoned by Margaret Law for using threatening language towards her. After hearing the evidence, the bench bound…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 27 April 1892 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Carson. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Henry Fisher was fined 10/- or three days. PERJURY.—Nasif Gerongeriy (a Syrian) was…

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The Windsor Murder

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 April 1892 · page 2

WILLIAMS was brought up at the Central Criminal Court, Melbourne, on Friday. His counsel applied for an adjournment which was granted until Thursday…

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A Supposed Murder

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 April 1892 · page 2

A BRUTAL murder was committed yesterday weak in a five-roomed house in McCrae-street, Bendigo, the victim being Michael Gearon, aged 51. He was…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. S. Meyer and J. W. Wombey. LARCENY. Richard Stanhope Viggers was charged with stealing a dozen handkerchiefs, the property of a…

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Wednesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. W. Carson. PECJURY. Nasif Gengeriz, or Nusif Gerlgeriz, was charged with committing perjury at Sydney in a bankruptcy…

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Gaol Appointments

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 2

Mr. Mattew Coonan, deputy governor of the gaol at Bilosl[?], has been appointed gaoler at Deniliquin, vice Ellory; and Richard Goble, chief warder of Goulburn gaol (cow temporarily in…

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Released from Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 4

DUBBO, Monday.—John Doniff and John M'Dermott, who were last February convicted of stealing from the person at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions, were released from custody on Saturday…

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The Windsor Murder. London, April 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 2

EDWARD DEEMING'S wife has made an affidavit to the same effect as her husband as to the insanity of Frederick Deeming's father and his own strange behaviour. In it she states that the prisoner was…

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Queanbeyan. Small Debts Court.—tuesday

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1892 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. W. Price, P. J. B. Donnelly, and A. Dyce, Js.P. L. Colverwell sued James Cooper for £2 10s, being the amount of damage alleged to have been…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Meyer and Wombey. LARCENY.—Richard Stanhope Viggers, an elderly man, was charged with stealing a dozen handkerchiefs belonging to Joseph…

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The Windsor Murder

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 4

THE trial of Deeming (or Williams) for the murder of his wife at Windsor was commenced before Mr. Justice Hodges, in Melbourne, yesterday. There was great public excitement…

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 3

BEFORE the Police-agistrate and Mr. A. de Lisle Hammond. DRUNK AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE. John Murray was fined 5s or 24 hours for being…

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