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

Courts & crime, 1912

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Licensing Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1912 · page 2

At the Licensing Court to-day (Tuesday), before the P.M. and Mr. Badgery, the application of Charles Harvey to effect certain alterations in his licensed premises, the Criterion Hotel,…

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Small Debts Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 March 1912 · page 4

The list for the Small Debts Court on Monday contained six cases, but all were settled out of court…

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Assault

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

The case against Stephen Nash for alleged assault of W. Buckland was then entered upon and adjourned for a month. Thomas Hardy was charged with…

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Young Police Court. Monday. (Before Mr. R. W. Collins, J.p.). Four Charges

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

Thomas Keevil was before the court to answer four charges, namely, that of being drunk and disorderly in Main-street, using profane language, assaulting…

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Queanbeyan. Police Court. Tuesday, March 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 4

Before Mr. Harcourt Holcombe, P.M. Alfred Lazarus, Inspector of Nuisances for the Municipality of Queanbeyan, proceeded against 40 persons for branches of ordinances, on the…

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Cable News. a French Crime. Murder and Robbery. Paris, March 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 4

It is said that the six Apaches who killed a chauffeur near Chantilly, seized his car, and after killing the cashier and clerk looted the bank, have been identified as the motorists who…

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Open Letter From Police Magistrate

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

It is with deep feelings of gratitude that publicly thank Mr. J. O'Riordan, for his marvellously sucessful treatment, of my son Edward, who…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 4

One defendant was fined 2/6 or 24 hours for drunkenness. Another defendant who was drunk on the railway station was fined 20/ or 7 days' hard labour. A third defendant was fined 10/ or…

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Police Court. Friday, March 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 6

Before Mr. Williams. DRUNK. Two defendants for drunkenness were fined 5 or 48 hours' hard labour. Another defendant, a…

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Local and General. Police Court. Friday, March 29 Before Mr. F. A. Ridley, P.M.

The Yass Courier · Monday 1 April 1912 · page 2

INDECENT ASSAULT.— Michael Ryan, laborer, 28, was charged with indecent assault on Claude Murdock, at Yass, the previous evening…

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Police Court. Monday, April 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 4

Before the P.M. and Mr. Williams. HE DID NOT APPEAR. John Here, against whom there are three charges of obtaining horses and money under…

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Guilty of Manslaughter. Sentenced to Seven Years

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court an Saturday morning William Henry France, a middle-aged man known as "Dr. Bill," was brought up for sentnece. He was found guilty on Friday of the…

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Constable Charged. a Labour League Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 4

Junee, Saturday.—The charge brought by the local Labour League against Constable J. J. Cooper, gaoler at Junee lockup, for assaulting a prisoner, Ralph Nash, in the cells on November…

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Daring Burglary. London, April 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 1

The thieves who bored into the jewellery establishment of Messrs. Ettlinger, jewellers, from the premises of a firm of artistic fabric dealers, took a quantity of dress materials and cushions with…

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Open Letter From Police Magistrate

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 April 1912 · page 2

It it with deep feelings of gratitude that I publicly thank Mr. J. O'Riordan, for his marvellously successful treatment, of my son Edward, who…

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Licensing Court. Monday, April 1

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 April 1912 · page 3

Before Mr. B. Morgan (chairman) and Messrs. C. L. Hume and W. J. A. Macpherson (members). Joseph Gurney applied for a colonial…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, April 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 2

Before the P.M. and Mr. Williams. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant (on bail) pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and was fined 10/, or three days'…

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Lynched in Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4

Three negro prisoners have been shot to death in the Shelbyville county court room, Tennessee, during the preliminary hearing of a charge of murdering certain railway detectives. As the…

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Divorce Court. Styles v. STYLES

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4

Charlotte Ann Styles, formerly Frost, petitioned on Thursday for a dissolution of her marriage with Septimus Styles, on the ground of bigamy and misconduct. The parties were…

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Police Court. Tuesday, April 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1912 · page 4

Before Mr. Belcher. DRUNK. One defendant for being drunk on the 8th April was fined 10/ or three days, there being…

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