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

Courts & crime, 1900

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 4

AT the Police Court yesterday, before the Police. Magistrate. Alfred Lockhart was discharged for being drunk, and fined 5s for using obseene language; or three days' imprisonment…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 2

AT the Police Court to-day (Thursday), before the Police-Magistrate, Andrew Schofleld was charged with disobeying a summons issued by the Moruya Bench charging him with using insulting…

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Disturbance in Berrima Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 4

Berrima, Tuesday.—Considerable shouting and screaming was heard coming from the local gaol on Monday evening, and one lady living near went into hysterics. It is said…

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Murder at Charters Towers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The jury at Charters Towers, returned a verdict of guilty late last night in the case of the man Raleigh, who was charged with the murder of Cornelius Teahan, by shooting…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. THREATENING LANGUAGE. Andrew Schofield pleaded guilty to using threatening language towards Constable…

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Police Appeal Cases

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

POLICE constables who have obtained a committal against which an appeal has been lodged complain frequently of the inattention of the crown law department in not…

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Cantata. Harvest Queen's Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

A NEW cantata, bearing the above title, was rendered in the Salvation Army Barracke last evening in aid of a fund for furnishing officers' quarters in the…

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Young Police Court. FRIDAY. Before Mr, Robertson, P.M. DRUNK

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 2

Patrick O’Hearn, charged with being drunk and disorderly pleaded guilty and was fined 10s or three days. INDECENT LANGUAGE…

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Wool-dealers in Court. an Important Decision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 5

At the District Court Sydney, on Friday, 27th April, His Honor Judge Backhouse d[?]ivered judgment in the ease in which Arthur Weber and Alfred Lohmann, trading as Weber…

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The Early Closing Act. Decision by the Full Court. Chemists’ Shops. Interpretation of the Word “Close.”

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 2

A SPECIAL case was argued before the Full Court, on Tuesday, which raised the question of the right of chemists to keep their shops open after 9 p.m. the hour for closing prescribed by the Early…

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Burglary Under Arms

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 2

A SERIOUS case of burglary under arms occurred at the residence of Mr. W. R. Thompson, Windsor (Victoria), early on Saturday morning. The family retired about ten…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1900 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Meyer. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was discharged with a caution…

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Thursday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 May 1900 · page 2

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

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Wednesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 May 1900 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. S. Meyer and L. H. Fitzgerald, Js.P. CHARGES OF STEALING Wm. Charles MCGowan was charged with stealing…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was discharged. MAINTENANCE ORDER…

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A Deserter Sentenced. London, May 8

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 2

General Sir Redvers Buller has reduced the sentence of death passed upon a prisoner, in the Royal Artillery to imprisonment for life. The offender had…

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Court-martial

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 4

TRIALS on active service differ somewhat from those held in barracks. Military tribunals in general must sit between the…

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District Court Bailiff

Goulburn Herald · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 2

Mr. A. F. Lloyd, acting sheriff's officer, Goulburn, has been appointed bailiff of the district court by his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge at this place during the absence of…

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Cooma Circuit Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 4

COOMA, Thursday.—Cooma Quarter Sessions concluded to-day. The jury were looked up all night in the case of Michael Smith, of Bunyan, who was charged with assaulting his daughter, Florence…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 May 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Messrs. Meyer, C. H. Roberts, and L. H. Fitzgerald. DRNK AND DISORDERLY. Andrew Camby pleaded guilty; fined 10/-…

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