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

Courts & crime, 1901

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Goulburn District Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 April 1901 · page 2

THE above court was held to-day before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. UNDEFENDED CASES. Dr. Handcock v. Charles McAlister; £4 13s 6d…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. CHARGE IF OBSTRUCTION. George Mansfield, a youth, was charged with obstructing the footway in Auburn…

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Murder and Suicide

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 3

Ferdinand Erst, a director of a Manchester Company, has murdered a woman named Madame Englander in Paris, and committed suicide…

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Member of Parliament Sentenced. London, April 23

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 3

MR. PATRICK MCHUGH, M.P., (Nationalist) for North Lei trim, has been, found guilty on a charge of criminal libel in the…

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Goulburn District Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 2

OPENED yesterday before His Honor Judge Fitzhardings, and was continued to-day. Members of the legal profession present were Messrs. Butts and Son, H. O'Brien…

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Murder Trails at Tamworth. Sentence of Death Passed

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 3

At the Tamworth Circuit Court, on Friday, (before Mr. Justice Owen), Ernest Montgomery Jones was found guilty up a charge of murdering Alfred Pitman,…

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Wrongly Convicted of Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

In Britain, the list of judicial blunders includes the case of William Shaw, convicted of the murder of his daughter in Edinburgh simply on the ground of her own outcry…

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Land Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 4

At the Land Court, on Tuesday, John Henry Glasson appealed against the recommendation of the Carcoar board for refusal of his special lease applications No. 1901-2…

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The Local Police Magistracy

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

DURING the absence of Mr. Robertson P.M. who, as we have previously said, leaves Sydney early next month for England upon an extended holiday Mr. H. Hawkins C.P.S. of Parramatta will act as…

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Young Police Court. THURSDAY. Before Mr. Robertson, P.M. [?] by Means of Threats and [?]Mand

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 3

S[?]us Watt was charged with demanding money with men[?]es with intent to steal from William Charles Wood. Mr. Russell appeared for the accused,…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 April 1901 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant, on bail, did not appear and his bail was forfeited…

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Goulburn Licensing Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 April 1901 · page 2

A special meeting of the licensing court was held to-day before Messrs. W. S. Caswell and I. Shepherd. POSTPONED…

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Tuesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

At the Police Court to-day, before the Police-Magistrate, George Rogers was fined 10s for being drunk and disorderly. Patrick McMahon and William Wontworth Sinnemon, who were in…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 4

Before the Police-Magistrate and Messrs I. Shepherd and C. H. Roberts MAINTENANCE. Ester Foran summoned David Cale for the…

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The Murrumburrah Assault Case

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

The man Hickey, who was so smartly arrested at Blackburn, near Yass, by Constable Mclnnes, of Bowning, and who was wanted on a very serious charge…

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

AT a sitting of the Goulburn Licensing Court yesterday, before Messrs. W. S. Caswell and I Shepherd, the adjourned case against A. J. Day for not having hit house up to the standard was…

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TELEGRAMS. Supreme Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 4

At the opening of term to-day there was the usual legal ceremonial It was reported to the court that the managing clerk to a firm of solicitors had sworn an affidavit on…

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Our Departing Police Magistrate Farewell Dinner

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 2

A WEEK or so ago, a movement was initiated with the object of tendering a farewell dinner to Mr. Robertson who has, for about the past eighteen months, occupied the…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. George Rogers, a labourer, and William Wentworth Sinnemon were each fined 10/. for…

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Wednesday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 4

Before the Police-Magistrate and Mr. Huxtable, J.P. DRUNKENNESS AND LANGUAGE. George Rogers, who has been dealt with on the…

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