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

Courts & crime, 1893

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Oliver. BREAKING AND ENTERING.—Bichard Sasse (on remand) was charged with breaking and entering the premises of Charles W. Furner…

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Second Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Ball, Kerr, and Wombey. WAGES.—R. Tilden Smith was summoned by Thomas O'Brien for the sum of £47 2/1 for work and labour done as a miner at the…

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Mutiny and Murder on the High Seas

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 8

What appears to have been a desperate attempt on the part of a crew to seize a barque on the high seas is reported from Tahiti. The…

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Local & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, Feb. 14

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 2

Before A. Wood and A. W. Thomson, Js.P. TRAVELLING WITHOUT A TICKET.-- Daniel Rheece was brought up, charged with travelling without a ticket…

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The Home Rule Bill. Details of the Measure. Council and Assembly. Irish Members at Westminster. the Police Force to Be Dissolved. Mr. Gladstone's Ovation. London, Feb. 13

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 2

Mr. Gladstone introduced the Irish Home Rule Bill m the House of Commons to-day. Theright of veto is vested in the Irish Viceroy, with the advice of the Executive. The Legislative…

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The Goulburn Gaol.—Another Assault

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

ANOTHER case of assaulting a warder occurred in the Goulburn Gaol yesterday, a prisoner named Cox attacking Warder Sheridan. Cox was this morning sentenced to receive 15 lashes and to six…

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Kerr, Ball, and Wombey BREACHES OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT. Thomas B. Weeks pleaded guilty to failing to rend his child to school the required number of days…

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Saturday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate ALLEGED INSANITY John Hamilton, on remand since Monday, was dealt with…

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Police Court.—monday

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. King, P.M. and P. Doyle, J.P. There were nine of ten small debt cases disposed of:—An old man named McLean was brought up for protection and on the…

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Heavy Police Court Business

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1893 · page 4

THERE was a heavy calendar of oases at the Police Court on Friday. Richard Sasse's depredation occupied Messrs. Alexander and Oliver until late in the day, and a second court presided over by…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 3

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. UNSOUND MIND.—John Hambleton, who had been under treatment in the jail hospital since the previous Monday, was further…

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As to the Police

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 2

it is said they don't like Summergreene. I don't know why, for be is a native of place and his character is unblemished. Perhaps it is because be has shown himself co very…

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Disturbances at the Jail. Another Case of Assault on a Warder

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 3

IN our last issue we published particulars of a disturbance at the jail, in which two prison are named Smith and Jackson assaulted the deputy-governor, Mr. Goble, and a warder…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

AT the Police Court this (Tuesday) morning, before the Police-Magistrate, Charles Bath pleaded guilty to drunkenness and to assaulting Constable Twiss in the execution of his duty, and he was…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Ball, Oliver, and Wombey TRANSFER OF LICENSE The adjourned application for the transfer of the…

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The Disturbances at the Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

IN connection with the recent disturbances at the gaol, it should be mentioned that the visiting justice, Mr. C. S. Alexander, P.M., and Mr. A. Kerr, J P., the magistrates who inflicted the sentences,…

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The Match Box Trick.—Theft of £183

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 4

IN the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Thursday afternoon, before Mr. Cornelius Delobery, S.M., Frederick Mills, 25, described as a boilermaker, was charged with having stolen, by trick, the sum of…

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A Marriage in Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 2

ORANGE, Monday—The Quarter Sessions were opened to-day by Judge Docker. Oiloff Ambrose Kudson, charged with making a false statement to the effect that he was married when registering the…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS AND ASSAULT.—For drunkenness Charles Bath was fined 10/- or forty-eight hours, and for assaulting the arresting…

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Murder and Mutiny

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 4

NEWS have been received from Tahitistating that the American barque Hesper, bound from Newcastle,new South Wales,to Honolulu, put into…

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