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

Courts & crime, 1909

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 4

A sitting of the above Court was held in the Courthouse on Monday, before the P.M. and Messrs. Belcher and Twynam. The quarterly report from the Licensing…

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Goulburn Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

A sitting of this Court was held this (Tuesday) morning, before the P.M. and Messrs. Belcher and Twynam. TRANSFER…

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Murder of a Cripple. London, April 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

At the Devizes Assizes Flora Fanny Haskell, 34, a widow, was presented on a second trial charged with the murder of her only son, Edwin Richard Haskell, a cripple, aged 12 years, at Salisbury on…

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Murder of a Sister Condemned Brother Protests

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1909 · page 5

For the murder of his married sister, Mary Ann Alpe, of South street, Walworth, on 23rd February, a laborer named Arthur Parker Hawkins,…

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The Cradle of a King. Ceremonies of the Spanish Court

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1909 · page 3

The family life of the Spanish Court is conducted with much simplicity; and since the advent of Queen Victoria Eugenie several English customs have…

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Goulburn Police Court. Thursday, April 8. Maintenance

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 April 1909 · page 2

Percy Poidevin was charged with neglecting to obey an order for the maintenance of his wife. The amount of £13 ros was now owing…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Yass Police Court. Monday, April 5Th. Failing to Destroy Rabbits

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 April 1909 · page 2

The Pastures and Stock Protection Board proceeded against Alex. Baines for failing to destroy rabbits on his land. Mr. Bucknell appeared for the Board…

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New Peer. Divorce Court President. New Judge Appointed

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 April 1909 · page 3

The King has been pleased to confer the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom on the Right Hon. Sir John Gorell Barnes…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 2

At the Police Court to-day (Saturday), before the P.M., Richard Clarence Belgrove pleaded guilty to having been drunk at the railway station. He also pleaded guilty to using indecent…

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Young Police Court. Wednesday. Before Mr. F. R. Treatt, P.M. DRUNK

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 2

James Davis, charged with being drunk pleaded guilty, and was flued be or forty-eight hours. Davis was also charged with indecent…

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Children’s Court

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning before Mi. F, B. Treatt, P. M„ Esther May Salom was charged with that she did on 6th April, 1909; at Marengo…

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Humor in Court. Another George Washington

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 6

"How do you live?" a debtor was asked at the Lambeth County Court. "On my merits," he replied. He did not add that he had been paid…

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New Peer. Divorce Court President. New Judge Appointed

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 5

The King has been pleased to confer the dignity of at Baron of the United kingdom on the Right Hon. Sir John Gorell Barnes…

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Coroner's Court. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M.)

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 2

A Coroper's inquiry was held at the Court House, Young, on Wednesday morning touching the death of Henry Clarence Salom, who was murdered at Marengo Creek on…

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Children's Court. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M.) Wednesday, 7th April

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 2

Esther May Salom, 15 years of age, was charged that she did on the 6th April, 1909, at Marengo Creek, in the State of New South Wales, [?]fully and feloniously murder one…

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Spank Those Girls. the Magistrate Objects

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 3

Recently a jury in a Judges' Court in Aurora, U.S., returned a verdict, as follows:--"We, the jury, find that Miss Hattie Briggs and Miss Dorothy…

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Young Police Court. Tuesday, April 13. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M.)

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 7

Albert Armstrong was charged with riotous behaviour on Saturday in a public street, to which he pleaded guilty and was fined 20s or 14 days…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, 13Th April, 1909. (Before Messrs. F. B. Treatt, J. Forsythe, and G. S. Whiteman, L.M's.)

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 2

George William Reynolds applied for an auctioneer's license for the district of Young, which was granted. John O'Connell was granted a renewal of…

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Goulburn Police Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1909 · page 4

One defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s or seven days. DRUNK AND DISCRDERLY. James Mackie pleaded guilty, and was fined…

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Goulburn Police Court Thursday, 15th APRIL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1909 · page 2

William Burns was charged that on the 11th April he knowingly did have in the building known as the kerosene store, near the railway station, three hats, valued at £1 10s, which…

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