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

Courts & crime, 1908

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Suffragists in Gaol. London, Nov. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 2

Mrs. Drummond, the suffragist agitator, released from gaol a few days ago on account of the state of her health, says that there was a mutiny in Holloway Gaol last…

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"Infectious Insanity." the Yacht Club Murder Case

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 5

Captain Hains, who is in prison for the murder at the Bay Shore Yacht Club of Mr Annis, the New York publisher, is totally insane. This…

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Industrial Crisis. Labour Party Leaves Parliament. a March to Darlinghurst Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 4

The Opposition has struck at last. On Thursday afternoon the leader of the Opposition tried again to bring before Parliament, this time on a vote of censure, the…

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Young Police Court. Tu[?] Before Mr. [?] P.M. DAIRIES [?] ACT

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 3

Inspector of [?] Robert R. Watt, selling [?] an unregistered dairy. Defen[?] guilty and was fined £5 and [?] one month’s…

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Young Police Court. Tuesday, 10th November. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.m.) Indecent Language

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 2

Henry Thomas Gilmour, a stranger to the town, and who stood in the dock with [?]s sleeves rolled up, and whose arms were tattooed all over with snakes, was charged with…

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Scene at a Murder Trial Judge Thanked for Death Sentence

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 5

At Durham Assizes on Saturday, 16th July, George Breeze, a young Durham miner, was indicted for the murder of Margaret Chisholm, at whose house at…

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Goulburn Police Court. Thursday, 12th NOVEMBER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 2

Before Messrs. Belcher and C. H. Roberts. DRUNK AND RESISTING THE POLICE. Robert Dixon was charged with being drunk and resisting Constable Gray in the execution…

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Murder of Miss Duffy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 4

Georgetown (Q.), Tuesday.—Mrs. Wilson, who is charged with the murder of Miss Duffy, at Carpentaria Downs station, was before the Court to-day, and further remanded for eight days…

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Extraordinary Murder

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 6

Fa[?]my Wilson, wife of Henry Charles Wilson, of Carpentraia Downs (53), was charged at the Georgetown (Q.) Police Court on 2nd inst., before…

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Small Debts Court. Wednesday, Nov. 11. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, P.M.) Ryan v. Toobey

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 2

John Charles Ryan sued Edward J. Toobey for balance of wages. mr. O'Neill appeared for plaintiff and Mr. McGechan (Abbott Tout & Co.) for…

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A Glimpse of Old London. High Court of Liberty

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 6

There is an interesting, bit of Old London to be seen in Wel[?] close-square, E. (writes the "Globe" of August 19), the thoroughfare which…

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Goulburn Police Court Monday, 16th NOVEMBER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 4

Before the P.M. and Messrs. Belcher and C. H. Roberts BREACH OF THE EARLY-CLOSING ACT. Austin Wellesley Fowler, a fruiterer, was…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 2

A sitting of this court was held in the courthouse to-day (Tuesday), before the P.M. Three cases were set down for hearing. Two were postponed. BEER V. CODY…

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San Francisco Court Outrage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 2

President Roosevelt wrote a letter of sympathy to the wife of Mr. Francis Honey, District Attorney, who was murderously assaulted in a court at San Francisco by Morris Hans, a…

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Outrage in Law Court. City Attorney Shot. London, Nov. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 4

During the trial of Abe Ruef at San Francisco on a charge of corruption, Francis Heney, the district attorney, who prosecuted Schmitz, a former Mayor of…

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Young Police Court. Tuesday. Before Mr. B. W. Collins, J.p,. Ob[?] Language

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 2

James Smith, charged with using obscene language, pleaded guilty and was fined £[?] and 6s costs…

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The Spies at Work Police "Noses."

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 3

It seldom happens that a police spy finds himself in the position of the man who was stated, in the course of a case at Clerkenwell Sessions, to have been…

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Mystery of a Skeleton Collapse of a Murder Charge

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 6

After a trial lasting two days, and characterised by some unusual incidents, three men and a woman charged at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, with the murder…

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The Station Murder. an Aboriginal Arrested

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 November 1908 · page 2

Georgetown, Wednesday.—Fanny Wilson on remand, was to-day, charged at the Police Court with the murder of Nellie Dutty at Carpentaria Downs station on…

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Man Charged with Electricity

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 5

The world is amazed when it stops to consider how things have been revolutionised by electricity. We have not only the telegraph and the telephone…

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