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

Courts & crime, 1898

844 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 15 of 43

LOCAL & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, April 19Th. Before A. Wood, J.-R. Ross and G. Thompson. J's.P

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 2

DETENTION OF PROPERTY--Thomas Besnard v. William Garland, detention of one intermediate, valued at £4 10s. Mr. Moriarity appeared for complainant…

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A Court Comedy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 4

Considerable amusement was caused before Judge Bacon at Whitechapel County Court, when Mrs. Donegan defended an action brought against her by Mr. Trumble…

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Cable News. Murder of a Missionary. London, April 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 2

Reports from Sierra Leone, West Africa, state that the head of the Rev. William John Humphreys, of the Church Missionary Society, has been found impaled on a stick, the reverend gentleman having…

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Wondrous Caves. Real and Imaginary. (Written specially for the SIGNAL, with apologies to a certain waterproof police officer)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 2

The describing and finding of new caves seems to be a very important work with the Government of New South Wales just now. Indeed it has…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 April 1898 · page 3

BEFORE the P.M. and Mr. Mather. One drunk was discharged with a caution, William Smidt junior pleaded guilty to working a horse with bad knees and in poor…

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 April 1898 · page 3

THIS morning before Messrs. Caswell (chairman) and Finlay, a renewal of his Reense was granted to Joseph Mallinson of Lake Bathurst Hotel, Tarago. Mr. Batts for…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Mothers. DRUNEKENNESS. One defendant, for the above, was discharged with a caution…

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Gaol Deliveries

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 2

As soon as the Full Court met on Monday the Chief Justice mentioned that while presiding on Circuit business at Young he fined the gaoler of Cowra Gaol for not sending in the return known as…

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Alleged Murder and Robbery at Young

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 5

YOUNG, Sunday.—A sensation was created in town on Saturday morning when it became known that the previous night a man named Frank Dillon, who had been drinking…

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Goulburn Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 4

AN adjourned sitting of the above was held yesterday before Messrs. Caswell and Finlay. The only application dealt with was one from James Mallinson for a renewal of the Lake Bathurst…

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Tragedy at Young. Supposed Brutal Murder. Two Arrests

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 2

Young, Saturday. -- About 10 o'clock last night a man named Atkins found the body of a man lying about 150 yards from the flour mill, a quarter of a mile from the post office,…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1898 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. McShane and Mathers INDECENT LANGUAGE AT TARAGO Bernard Gann pleaded guilty to having used…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 April 1898 · page 3

BEFORE the P.M. and Messrs. McShane and Mather. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Bernard Gane [?] guilty; fined 20/-…

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Crookwell Police Court. Thursday, April. 28. BEFORE Messrs. Tozer and Robertson

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 29 April 1898 · page 2

Cecil Amos Herby (on remand from the previous day) was charged with larceny as bailee of a gun, the property of Tom Hincliffe. After the evidence of Constable Buxton,…

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Alleged Murder and Robbery at Young

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 April 1898 · page 2

ON Friday night last a report ran through the town of Young that a man, later on identified as Frank Dillon, had been found apparently murdered and robbed in…

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Young Police [?]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 April 1898 · page 2

[?] Before Mr. T. Foley, P.M., and Dr. Heeley, J.P R[?]TOUS BEHAVIOUR. Edward Kelly[?]…

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Some Court Work

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1898 · page 2

Messrs Barnes and R. Futter presided at the Murrumburrah Police Court last Monday, and for an off day the list was unusually long, However, as…

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Mother and Child. a Shocking Case. Before the Full Court

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 April 1898 · page 4

AN application was made to the Full Court on Tuesday morning on behalf of Annie Macdonald, of Che[?]street, Turramurra, widow, to make absolute a rule [?] granted…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 May 1898 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Messrs Belcher and Mather. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was discharged with a…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1898 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Oliver and Cropper. DRUNKENNESS AND LANGUAGE. Robert McNaught pleaded guilty to drunkenness…

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