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

Courts & crime, 1892

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 3

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. J. Clifford J.P. Alfred Ball was fined 5a and 2s 6d costs for allowing a horse to stray in Auburn-street. Fresh…

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Escape of a Prisoner from Wagga Gaol.—A Speedy Capture

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 4

WAGGA, Friday.—At half-past 11 o'clock this morning a prisoner named Thomas Shelly, who was undergoing a sentence of His months' imprisonment in Wagga gaol, two months of which term were…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 February 1892 · page 2

SITTING JUSTICES: The Police Magistrate and Messrs. Ball and Oliver. DISORDERLINESS.—William Dwyer pleaded guilty to riotous conduct, indecent language,…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. E. J. Ball and James Oliver RIOTOUS CONDUCT, &c William Dwyer was charged with riotous conduct,…

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LOCAL & General News Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, Feb. 2 0. Before Mr. A. C. Wood, J. P.

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 2

ABSCONDING.--James Cole was charged with having absconded from the indentured services of Charles D. Middleton. Constable Smith reposed: I arrested the…

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Goulburn Police Court. Monday Afternoon

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1892 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Ball and Oliver. FALSE PRETENCES.— William Told was summoned tor that on 31st July inst he did…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1892 · page 2

The monthly sitting of this court was held yesterday before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Ball and Oliver. The list contained twenty-four cases; of which five were settled…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1892 · page 4

AT the Police Court yesterday morning John Smith, summoned for drunkenness and obscene language, did not appear, and a warrant was ordered to issue for his arrest…

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1892 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Ball and Oliver. FRAUDULENT APPROPRIATION. William Todd was further charged that he…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 March 1892 · page 4

Before the Police Magistrate, TRANSFER OF LICENSES.— On the application of Mr. Gannon the colonial wine license and spirits license held by George Henry…

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The " Army" Sent to Gaol

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1892 · page 3

AT the Ballarat City Police Court, on Tuesday, seven members of the Saltation Army, named William Bowes, Frederick Mitchell, Thomas Main, Jane Wilson,…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, March 1. Before Messrs. T. Colls, M. Coen, and A. C. Wood, J's.p

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 March 1892 · page 2

BREACH OF RAILWAY LAWS.—Leonard Holloway, and John Richard Lamplough were charged with travelling on the railway from Goulburn to Yass that morning without railway tickets…

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Saturday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1892 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. STEALING FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. Patrick Thomas was charged with stealing a Gladstone bag and contents, a gun barrel, and…

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1892 · page 3

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. TRANSFER OF LICENSES. On the application of Mr. Gannon a transfer of the colonial wine and spirit licenses for the…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 March 1892 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. LARCERY:—Patrick Thomas was charged with stealing from a railway carriage at Goulburn a Gladstone bag, the double barrel of a…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 4

The case against Patrick Thomas for stealing a gladstone bag, with contents, a gun barrel and an umbrella from a carriage of the express train on Friday was resumed. Mr. Neild, Goulburn…

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Tuesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. TRAVELLING WITH AN EXPIRED TICKET. Sidney Olson was charged with travelling on the railway with an expired ticket from Sydney to…

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Cable News. Extraordinary Scene in a Police Court. London, March 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 4

A scene of great excitement took place during the trial of a man for horse-stealing in Indiana, U.S. The prisoner, who had a revolver concealed about him, fired at the Bench, killing the Mayor of…

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Murder and Mystery a Woman's Body Cemented Under a Fireplace

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 2

It is years since Melbourne was startled with such a case as we report this Friday morning. When long ago a woman named' Farrell disappeared from Collingwood, and was supposed to…

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Local & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, March 4

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 2

Before Messrs. Coen and Wood J's.P. UNSOUND MIND.--Patrick Kavenagh on (remand) was brought before the court charged with being of unsound mind…

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