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

Courts & crime, 1897

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Serious Assault Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1897 · page 4

IN reference to an assault that took place in the Redfern Park on Monday night further particulars show that a young man, William Steele, had been to a holiday social at the Oddfellows' Hall,…

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Goulburn Mining Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1897 · page 2

MR. CASWELL held a mining warden's court in Goulburn to-day (Thursday) to hear an application by William E. Williams for suspension of labour conditions on gold-mining claims and lease at…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Mr. Oliver. UNSOUND MIND. George Peter Schliessmann (about 40) was brought up as being of unsound mind…

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Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. Caswell, warden, heard three application from William E. Williams for the suspension of labour for six months on two mining tenemsnts and gold-mining lease…

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Assault and Robbery. a Man Brutally Attacked by Women

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

INFORMATION has been received by the police with reference to an assault by females upon a young man hailing from Bungendore, whose name at present it is not deemed advisable to…

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Small Debts Court

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

Thomas Hughston v. James Regan. Claim £3 8s., being contract price for stripping 16 acres of wheat and 1 acre of oats, as per agreement…

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Burrowa Police Court. Wednesday, May 26. (Before Mr. C. W. Weekes, P. M.) Cutting Timber on Crown Lands

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

Henry Couch, charged with cutting timber on Crown Lands without a license, pleaded guilty. It appeared tint defendant was in the employ of Mr. G…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, May 25Th, 1897. Before Mr. C. W. Weekes, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. -- Henry Owen was charged with cruelly illtreating a horse at Weejasper. Defendant pleaded guilty…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2

AT the Police Court to-day, before the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Belcher, J.P., Patrick Ryan on remand for supposed insanity was discharged. Thomas Sidney Henderson, a young man on remand…

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Friday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 5

BEFORE Messrs. Meyer and Fitzgerald, Js. P. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Charles Cregan pleaded guilty to the above and he was fined.10t or three days…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 31 May 1897 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Mr. Belcher. UNSOUND MIND. Patrick Ryan (thirty-eight), on remand, was discharged as recovered, upon the…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 4

One defendant, for the above, was fined 5s, or 24 hours. THREE CHARGES OF MALICIOUS DESTRUCTION. Thomas Brennan appeared to answer three…

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Tuesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2

John Munro was charged with having two umbrellas in his possession reasonably supposed to be stolen. Senior-constable Griffiths deposed that at 2 o'clock…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2

A SITTING of the above court was held to-day before Mr. W. S. Caswell, P.M. A case between Isaac Goodwin and J. Polts was continued, the service being hold to be insufficient,…

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Attempt to Murder the King of Italy. London, May 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 4

The man Pietro Acciarito, who made an attempt to murder King Humbert of Italy while his Majesty was driving to the race-course at Rome on the 22nd April, has been tried and sentenced to penal…

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LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Friday May 28. Before C. W. Weeks, Esq., P.M.

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2

ASSAULT. -- Sydney Carroll, John Henry Glass, John Glass, and Isaac Grovenor (aboriginals) were charged, on remand from the previous Tuesday with having assaulted John…

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Stealing Bicycles

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1897 · page 2

AT the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday John Barlow, who had pleaded guilty to stealing two bicycles, the property of the Austral Cycle Agency, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment…

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Committal at Goulburn Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1897 · page 2

Two youths, named Kelly and Delaney, under committal for alleged larceny at Marulan, were brought before Mr. Caswell, P.M , at the Goulburn gaol on Monday and committed on a further charge…

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Thursday's Police Court. Before Messrs. Foxall and Oliver, Js.P. Unsound Mind

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1897 · page 2

George Schliessmann, on remand, was dealt with for supposed insanity. Dr. McKillop, Government medical officer, said he considered Schliessmann was insane, and handed…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Foxall and Oliver. UNSOUND MIND. George P. Schebliessman (about forty) was brought up on remand, and upon the…

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