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

Courts & crime, 1900

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was discharged with a caution…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant, for the above, was discharged with a cavation…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

AT the Small Debts Court to-day, before Mr. Caswell, James Lemon applied for a garnishee order on A. H. Line to satisfy a judgment obtained against Wm. Cowlan. There was no appearance of…

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Goulburn Police Court Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Foxall. SERIOUS CHARGE. Mauries Laidlaw, Lawe (about 21) was before the court on a charge of aiding one John…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Messrs. Shepherd and Foxall. HAWKERS' LICENSES. Renewals if hawkers' licenses were granted to…

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. Foxall. CHARGE OF AIDING TO BREAK AND ENTER. Morris Laidlaw Laws was charged with aiding one John Francis Champion to break and enter the…

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The Eureka Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 4

Brisbane, Tuesday.—In connection with the murder of the girl Mary Le Blowitz an aboriginal was arrested and brought into Childers to-night. He will be charged before the Bench tomorrow…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

BEFORE the P.M. and Messrs, Shepherd and Foxall. HAWKERS' LICENSES RENEWED. Renewals of hawkers' licenses were granted…

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Goulburn Licensing Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

QUARTERLY sitting was held yesterday before Messrs, Caswell (chairman), Finlay, and Shepherd. The following applications were death with:—…

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Shocking Murder in Victoria. a Little Girl the Victim

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 1

A telegram received form Broadford, a place about 25 miles from Melbourne, states that the mystery attached to the strange disappearance of a little…

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Shocking Murder in Queensland. a Young Girl the Victim

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

Information has reached the authorities pointing to the perpetration of a terrible crime at Eureka, a place not far from Childers in the Maryborough district…

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The Goondiwindi Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

GOONDIWINDI, Friday.—In reference to the supposed murder of Mrs. Pfingst, a further search of her residence has revealed the fact that a man's shirt, wrapped in a towel, was hidden behind a…

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The Eureka Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday.—Inspectors Stuart and O'Drisooll returned to-night from Stanton Harcourt, and from what can be gathered as to the circumstantial evidence in the ease it appears that the…

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Traveller. French Police

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

Police in plain clothes, an bourgeois, as the French call it, are not so numerous, but fulfil a higher, or at least a more confidential mission. The members are styled inspectors,…

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Shocking Tragedy in Queensland. Triple Murder and Suicide. Mother, Son, and Daughter Killed. Brisbane

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 6

ANOTHER horrible tragedy has occurred in this colony. Last night on Mr. Goward's selection, four miles from St. George, Mrs. Goward and her son, 17 years, were found dead in bed at the…

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Mining. Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1900 · page 2

THIS morning a court was held before Mr. Caswell, warden, to deal with applications from Thomas Alchin and others to enter the lands of Mr. C. K. Chisholm, Breadalbane, to…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Public-Magistrate and Mr. C. H. Roberts. DRUNKENNESS. one defendant for the above was discharged with…

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Assault by the British. Jan. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 4

Major-General French yesterday in force assaulted the Boers round. Colesberg. He discovered two of the enemy's guns placed five miles to the north of the town…

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Goulburn Mining Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 4

SOME time ago James Kershaw and others applied to Mr. W. S. Caswell, mining warden, for authority to enter upon C. K. Chisholm's land at Breadalbane to mine for gold, and the Warden refused to grant…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 2

AFTER the court adjourned as usual, the P.M. heard the following case:— STEALING FRUIT. Patrick James Shaw, about twelve, was…

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