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

Courts & crime, 1903

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 March 1903 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Mr. Huxtable. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Joseph Foley pleaded guilty and was fined 5/- or forty-eight hours…

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Ramsay Busy Murder. Tommy Moore to Be Hanged

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 March 1903 · page 4

THOMAS Moore, the Queensland aboriginal convicted of the murder, in particularly atrocious circumstances, of a litle girl named Jane Ire[?]…

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Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 2

At the Police Court to-day (Saturday), before Messrs. Belcher and Boileau, Helmer Enorius Olsen Lund was charged with being a person deemed to be insane. Constable Avery…

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Young Police Court

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 2

Before Messrs. R.W. Collins and J. C. Watson Js. P. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. Charles Rowland charged with behaving in an…

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Bungendore. Police Court, Thursday, 28th March

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 4

BEFORE Messrs. Elliott, P.M., and T S. Hyles, J.P. Ellen M. Cullen v. Chas. Creswick and Edward Sweeney, damaging with intent to steal a certain part of certain trees…

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Sir Hector Macdonald. Charged with Serious Offences London, 25th March

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 2

An extraordinary official announcement has been made with respect to that distinguished and popular soldier, Brigadier-General Sir Hector Macdonald, K.C.B.,…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 March 1903 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Boileau and Belcher. ALLEGED INSANITY. Helmer Enorius Olsen Lund, laborer, was brought up as being of unsound mind and…

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The Police-magistracy

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 March 1903 · page 2

MR. CASWELL, police-magistrate of Goulburn, having obtained twelve months' leave of absence, will sit to-morrow for the last time prior to his departure for a trip to the old…

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Monday's Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 4

Before the Police-Magistrate and Mr. C. H. Roberts. CHARGE OF UTTERING. George Murray, on remand, was charged with…

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Crookwell Police Court. Thursday, March 26

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. J. Tozer, J.P. John James Walsh pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and being disorderly, and was fined 40, in…

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Murder in Mackay Lockup. Two Men Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1903 · page 4

Brisbane, Sunday.—A horrible double murder was committed this afternoon in the lock-up yard at Mackay. A kanaka named Sow Too Loo, who was awaiting trial for the murder of…

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Cases at the Police Court

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 3

At the Wyalong police court on Wednesday afternoon, before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M., Patrick Droney, laborer, was charged with using profane language in connection with the disturbance last…

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

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 2

Edward Kelly charged with being drunk pleaded guilty and was fined 10s or three days. TUESDAY. Before Mr. Robertson, P.M…

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Police Court. Monday, March 30, 1903. Before C. Robertson, Esq., P.M. DRUNK. Edwin Kelly, for being drunk on Sunday, the 29th, was fined 10s or three days. Tuesday, March 31, 1903. Before C. Robertson, Esq., P.M. Posting Obscene Letters

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 2

Patrick L. Tobin, of Wombat, was charged, on information, with posting obscene letters to Alice Kildea, also of Wombat, Mr. Gordon, instructor by the Crown…

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A Murder Appeal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

Perth, Wednesday.—The Full Court was occupied yesterday in hearing the appeal against the conviction of Maillot and five other foreigners, now under sentence of death for the…

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Attempted Wife Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

West Maitland, Wednesday.—A terrible sensation occurred at Pelaw Main, a colliery town nine miles south of Maitland, this afternoon, when a miner attacked his wife with a…

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A Spiritualist Sentenced. London, March 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 4

Frau Rothe, a spiritualistic flower medium in Berlin, has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for holding a deceptive seance At the trial astounding disclosures were made of superstition in…

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An Important Arbitration Court Award

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 4

A lengthy judgment was delivered in the Arbitration Court on Monday in the dispute between the New South Wales Saddle and Harness Makers' Trade Society (employees) and the "Wholesale…

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Yass Rabbit Board. Cases Before the Court. Two Information Dismissed

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

The whole of Tuesday up to 5 p.m. was engaged in the [?] Court, before Mr. Thomas, P.M. in the hearing of three cases in which the District Rabbit Board…

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