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

Courts & crime, 1894

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 4

Before Messrs. Caswell, P.M., Ball, Clifford, and Ellis. CATTLE STRAYING. George Bridges was fined is with 6s 4d costs for…

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Sensational Burglary Under Arms

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A sensational burglary under arms occurred early this morning at the pawnshop of Michael Crawcour, Nelson-place, Williamstown. Soon after 3 a.m. Crawcour was roused by electric…

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The Dora Dora Murder. “ WILLIE ” Before the Court. Accused Remanded. Albury

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 4

The Queensland aboriginal Willie, alias Tinamburrah, an ex-tracker in the Victorian police force presented at the police court to-day on a of being concerned in the murder of a Polish…

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Young Police Court THURSDAY. Before Mr. S. Robinson, P.M. DRUNKENNESS

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 3

John McMahon was charged with having been drunk in Burrowa-street, and owning the soft impeachment, was ordered to pay 2s Gd, or suffer imprisonment until the rising of the court. The…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 2

At a meeting of magistrates held on Friday morning, and attended by Messrs. W. Caswell, P.M., E. J. Ball, J. Chifford, A. Ellis, and S. Meyer it was decided to fall in with a suggestion…

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Braidwood Police Magistrate

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 2

Mr. W. CLARKE, successor to Mr. J. L. King, as Police Magistrate and Mining Warden at Braidwood, arrived in that town on Friday morning, and entered upon his duties…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. J. Clifford and E. Ball. PROTECTION. The police reported that J. W. Bragg,…

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Garden Robbery. Assault by the Thief

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 3

LAST night, at about half-past nine, Mr. T. Conolly, of Cowper-street, we attracted by someone in his vegetable garden, and on going out found a man helping himself to…

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The Proposed Court-house at Bowral. a Deputation Appointed

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 3

MR. R. H. ROBERTS, Mr. Bruce Smith, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Loveridge, with the Mayor and three aldermen, have been appointed a deputation to wait on the Minister for Justice…

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The Alleged Defalcations. Accused Before the Court To-day. Sydney, Monday, 6.30 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 3

AT the Police Court to-day, Frederick Augustus Thomas, fifty-three years of age, the accountant of Messrs. Lorimer, Rome, and Co., was charged with embezzling £13,000…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 3

AT the Police Court on Monday, before the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Ball and Clifford, J W. Brag, on remand for protection, was ordered to be sent to the Liverpool Asylum. John Harding,…

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To-day's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 2

AT the Police Court to-day, before the Police-Magistrate, Eliza Higgine (on remand) was charged with being of unsound mind. Dr McKillop deposed that Mrs. Higgins had…

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Magistrate and Solicitor

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 2

At the Water Police Court, on Friday, Mr. Giles S.M., presiding, Henry Smith was charged with having stolen a racing mare belonging to George R. Wilson, of Ipswich, Queensland. Detective…

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Local & General News. Yass District Court

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 2

(Before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.) The legal gentlemen present were:-- Messrs. Wilkinson, Iceton, and Brennan, solicitors, Yass; Brimacombe, Burrowa; Davidson, Goulburn; and…

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Burglary

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 2

THE enterprising burglar has been a burgling— though not, it would appear, to very useful purpose to himself—in this district. During the night of Friday, or the early hours of Saturday morning,…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 3

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS.—One defendant was discharged with a caution. PROTECTION.—John O'Neill was brought up…

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Fruit Stealing

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 2

SOME boys, it appears, are in the habit of visiting a garden near Mr. Hills brewery and taking fruit therefrom. The boys, who have respectable parents, are said to be known. It would be just as…

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A Strange Affair. Assault with a Knife

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 2

ON Monday evening, Master Percy Conolly, a son of Mr. T. Conolly, of Church Hill, was surprised by a masked man making his appearance from the basement of the house…

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Young Police Court SATURDAY. Before Mr. S. Robinson P. M. Suspected Larceny

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 2

John Coghlan was charged on suspicion, of having stolen a pocket book, two chamois bags, a jubilee coin, and eleven £1 notes. Senior Constable Mackenzie said: On Friday…

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Horrible Murder at the Islands

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 3

JUST before the R. M. S. [?]rawa hit Suva (Fiji) for Sydney seven men implicated in the murde of a Tokalan women at Wainunu were brought ashore from the inter-island trailing steamer…

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