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

Courts & crime, 1896

1,025 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 52

The Police Magistrate of the Future

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 4

“OUTIS,” writing in Tuesday‘s DAILY TELEGRAPH, pens the following in reference to future magisterial appointments :— “The [?] of the Public Service Board…

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Saturday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. I. Shepherd and J. Oliver. CUTTING A HORSE'S MANE AND TAIL. Henry Joseph Augustus Carroll and William Henry Verrinder, both aged 15 years, were charged…

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Crookwell Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 6

AT the Crookwell Police Court on Wednesday, March 11, before Messrs. Cox, Roberts, and Naughton, William Sligar (on remand) was charged with stealing a boy filly,…

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 6

AT the Police Court on Friday before the Police-Magistrate, Messrs. W. S. Foxall, P. McShane, J. W. Wombey, and J. Gale, John Akars, the one-legged man, who was before the court recently on a…

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Young Police Court. FRIDAY. [?] Mr. T. Foley. P.M. and Mr. J. Brough[?] Dr. Heeley. Js. P. [?]Ed Assault

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 March 1896 · page 2

[?] was [?] charged with assaulting Thomas Hughes, and occasioning him grievous bodily harm. Dr. Hutchings deposed : I remember Thursday…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 March 1896 · page 2

BEFORE [?] L Shepherd and Oliver MALICI[?] INJURY. Henry Joseph A[?] Carroll and William to [?] injaring a botes the property…

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Tuesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant for the above was fined 10s or two days to gaol. Another defendant for the same…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. UNSOUND MIND. Mahomet (a Hindoo), on remand for the above, was discharged. He was given a free pass to…

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Local & General News. Assault

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 2

A serious assault case took place at Gunning last week. A young man named Brumley assaulted a young man named Booth. He was brought before the Gunning bench and…

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Parramatta Police Court. Aldermanic Amenities. a Rookwood Alderman Sued

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 2

At the police court on Wednesday, before Messrs. Harper, Coates, and Henderson, Js.P., Alderman Thomas Godson, of Rookwood, proceeded against William Gilliver, a brother…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Mr. Wombay. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was fined 10 or forty-eight hours; attended was fined 5/- or forty-eight…

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Revision Court

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 3

IN the supplementary Government GAZETTE of the 4th instant was published a [?] in respect to the Revision Court for the Electoral District of Young. An alteration has been made in the date…

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Young Police Court. Monday. Before Messrs. T. Foley, P.M., and P. [?]ram, P. Drunk and Disorderly

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 2

D Regan and [?] with [?] pleaded guilty [?] 1s [?]…

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Telegrams. Sydney and Colonial. Sydney, Wednesday 4 p m. Assault and Robbery

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 3

A FURTHER arrest was made this morning in the case of assault and robbery of a man named Jacquas Faller in the employ of the Sydney Wool-Scouring Company about the…

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Small Debts Court. MONDAY. Before Mr. T. Foley, P.M. and Mr. Peter Cram. J.P.

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 March 1896 · page 3

Thomas Bre[?] v. Thomas Sheedy. Debt, £1, sale of mare, pl[?], not indebted. Plaintiff, sworn—In July last I met Sheedy at C[?] and sold him a mare for £1 and delivered it,…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1896 · page 4

AT the Police Court yesterday morning an old man named Thomas Hay, on remand for protection, was further remanded for a week…

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To-day's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1896 · page 2

AT the Police Court to-day, before Mr. Wombey, James Chinnery pleaded guilty to having been drunk on the Goulburn railway station and to having assaulted Constable John Gandy. Defendant…

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Gunning. Police COURT.—Saturday, 21st February

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1896 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. N. T. Collins and Henry Saxby, Js.P. Edward Bromley appeared on a charge of assaulting one Robert Booth, of Nelanglo,…

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Assault at Gunning

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 2

On Tuesday last a young man named Bromley, employed in the Telegraph Office, Gunning, was brought before the Gunning bench charged with violently assaulting an old man…

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