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

Courts & crime, 1901

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Goulburn Police Court Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1901 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Helm and Barrett. ALLIGED INSANITY. D. H. Lookard who remanded for a week for medical observation…

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To-day's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 March 1901 · page 2

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate. INDECENT LANGUAGE William Thomas Corbett pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, on the 23rd of February, used…

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Goulburn Police Court. Tuesday Afternoon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 March 1901 · page 4

Before Messrs. C. J. Helm and A. Barrett. CHARGE OF UNSOUND MIND. David H. Lookard was brought up as being doomed to be insane. He was remanded for a…

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Police Proceedings. Court House, Tuesday. BEFORE Mr. Thomas, P.M. Not Educated

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 7 March 1901 · page 2

S. Greig and W. Brown each pleaded guilty to not sending a child to school during the required number of days in last half year, and were fined 2/6 each…

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Small Debts Court

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 7 March 1901 · page 2

John E. P. Walker, representative of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society of Victoria, sued J. W. Martin, of Tangmangaroo, for the sum of £4/19’7,…

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Warden’s Court

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 7 March 1901 · page 2

H. W. Somers applied, before this court, Mr. Thomas presiding, for suspension of labor conditions on a mining lease situated at Spring Range, Hall,…

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Small Debts Court. Tuesday, March 5. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 2

J. E. P. Walker, insurance agent, sued Joseph Martin for £4 balance of insurance money. Mr. O'Brien appeared for planitiff…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. INDECENT LANGUAGE. William Thomas Corbett pleaded not guilty. Senior-Constable Griffiths and Roger…

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Local & General News. Yass Court of Petty Sessions Tuesday, March 5. Before the Police Magistrate

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 2

NOT SENDING CHILDREN TO SCHOOL.-- Nat. Greig was summoned for not sending his children to school the required number of days. Fined 2s 6d, with 7s…

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The Denham Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 3

A TELEGRAM which has been received from the Chief of Police at Wymdham (W.A.) describes the state of affairs at Denham Station when he arrived there on…

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Wounding with Intent to Murder. the Death Sentence Passed

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday (before Acting Justice Pring), Joseph Baker pleaded not guilty to a charge of having on January 7, at…

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Police Court—Thursday, 7th

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 3

Before Dr. Pawlett J.P. Robert McMillan, charged with having no visible means of support, was sentenced to one month in Goulburn Gaol.—Gustav Hines,…

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Attempted Murder of Children. London, March 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 6

r. Justice Day, sitting at Bristol, sentenced a man named David Allport, an insurance agent, formerly a lay evangelist, to 15 years' penal servitude, and a woman named Louisa Chappell to five…

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Couplers of Crown L[?]nde. the Recent Court Proceedings

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 2

THE defendants In the recent, police court proceedings, taken for the purpose of dispossessing them of their occupation of certain travelling stock and water reserves will remember that…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 March 1901 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Belcher. DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was discharged. MONDAY…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 4

BEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. C. H. Roberts. CHARGE OF UNSOUND MIND. Joseph Maloney, under treatment for being of…

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To-day's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. S. Meyer, Jones, and Huxtable. DISCHARGED. David H. Lockard, who had been on remand for observation, having been deemed to be insane, was…

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Crookwell Police Court. Saturday, March 9. BEFORE Mr. Cox

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 2

William Keating, Nicholas Keating and Arthur Smith were charged with being found in a dwelling for an unlawful purpose…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Meyer, Huxtable, and Jones. A SERIOUS CHARGE. Jane Francis Gill, on remand, was charged with illegally using an instrument on Jano…

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The Murder of Mr. Durack

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 1

WORD was received in Perth (W.A.) on Monday announcing the capture of the aboriginals who recently murdered Mr. J. J. Darack at Denham Station, and…

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