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

Courts & crime, 1912

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Gunning. Police Court—february 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 4

Before C. B. F. Grovenor and V. A. R. Champion, Js.P. Andrew Mitchell, jun., was charged with that at a social held in the Oddfellows' Hall,…

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Police Court. Saturday, February 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 2

Before Mr. S. H. Belcher. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant, found drunk in Auburn-street on 9th inst., pleaded guilty, and was fined 2/6, or…

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Police Court. Friday, February 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 February 1912 · page 4

Before Messrs. S. H. Belcher and G. R. Williams. ALLEGED GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM. Benjamin Sleeman, on bail, stood charged on remand with maliciously inficting grievous…

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Police Court. Tuesday, January 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 2

Before the P.M. DRUNK. A defendant who was drunk on the railway platform was fined £1, or 10 days' imprisonment…

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Police Court. Monday, February 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 4

Before the P.M. and Messrs. Belcher, C. H. Roberts, Holland, mather, and E. Gillespie. DRUNK. One defendant for drunkenness was fined 2/6…

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Braidwood. Police COURT.—Thursday, Feb. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 4

Before Mr. Galbraith, P.M. One man was charged with being drunk in Wallace-street on the 3rd inst., and pleaded guilty. He was fined £2, in default…

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E. T. Hooley Sentenced. London, Feb. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 1

E. T. Hooley—who was charged With having obtained from George Tweedale £2000 in connection with the sale of an estate by falsely representing that it was unburdened—has been…

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Electoral Revision Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 2

A sitting of the above was held before the P.M. on Monday. Twenty-eight names were struck off, as well as the names of several persons who had died. Sixty-right names had been…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 4

A sitting of the above Court was held in the Court House on Monday, before the P.M. and Messrs. Badgery, C. H. Roberts, D. Holland, E. Gillespie, and Mather. There were two cases,…

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Young Police Court. Tuesday. Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M. Profane Language

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

Albert Miller, charged with having used profane language, pleaded guilty and was fined 10s and 6s costs or seven days. WITHOUT LIGHTS…

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District Court. Thursday, Feb. 15

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

Agnes Cranston, of Burrowa, sued James Kyran Hardiman, proprietor of the Commercial. Hotel, Burrowa, for £400 damages, for slander…

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Young Sessions and District Court. (Before His Honor Judge Rogers.) Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, Feb. 14

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 2

Michael Conroy, of Barrowa, was charged with uttering a counterfeit coin at Young in December last. Accused who pleaded not guilty, was…

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Gunning. Police Court.—thursday, February 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 2

Before Mr. Ridley, P.M. Andrew Mitchell, on remand, appeared to answer a charge of having on the evening of Monday, 15th January, 1912, at a social held in…

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Bankruptcy Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 6

A public examination under section 18 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1898, into the bankruptcy of William John Augustus Heffernan and Daniel Perry, trading as Perry and Heffernan, was held…

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Bankruptcy Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 4

The public examination of Messrs. Perry and Heffernan was continued on Friday afternoon. Mr. Thomas represented the official assignee, and Mr. E. A. Betts appeared for bankrupts…

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Assault Cask

The Yass Courier · Monday 19 February 1912 · page 2

Before Mr. F. A. Ridley, P.M., at the local Police Court on Saturday, Alfred Edward Garner proceeded against Robert George Merriman for…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 19 February 1912 · page 2

Alexander MacAulay was charged on an information laid by Arthur James Griffen with stealing one bull calf the property of the said…

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Police Court. Friday, February 16. BEFORE Mr. H. Giles Shaw, P.M. Failing to Destroy Rabbits

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 19 February 1912 · page 2

Mr. Hogan, appeared on behalf of the Young P. P. Board. Mrs. Jelliman was charged with failing to destroy rabbits…

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Police Court. Monday, February 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 4

Before the P.M. and Messrs. Belcher and C. H. Roberts. REMANDED. A defendant, alleged to be insane, was further…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, February 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 4

A sitting of the above was held in the Court House before the P.M. and Messrs. Belcher and C. H. Roberts. The list contained six cases. Of these three were struck out and one postponed…

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