Cattle Stealing
James Kinavane and Ewen M'Donald were brought up at the West Maitland police court, on Thursday, charged with having stolen a bullook, the property of Matthew Moore, on the 25th December…
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Courts & crime, 1867
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MURRURUNDI. (From our old correspondent, "Argus.") Police Court, December 24Th, 1866, (Present: P.W. Wright, Esq., J.P., A. Brodie, Esq., J.P., A. Loder, Esq., J.P., F.R. White, Esq., J.P.)
CATTLE-STEALING.—John Pengilly, on remand, charged with this offence, was committed for the next Quarter Sessions to be held at Murrurundi, January 28 1867— John Welob, for the same offence, was committed to take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Singleton. Police Court, Tuesday, 8Th Jan., 1866
Before his Worship the Mayor and R. A. Rodd, Esq.) DRUNKENNESS.—John Mannix and Henry Gates, for being drunk, were fined 5s. each. PROTECTION.—Robert Quickwilliam, arrested on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scone. Police Court, January 7Th 1867. (Present: James Smith, Esq., P.M.)
CATTLE STEALING.—Owen M'Cosker (on remand from the 1st instant) appeared on bail to answer to this charge, Senior-sergeant Hind conducted the case for the Crown. Donald M'Donald, being sworn, deposed: I am a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Curious Charge of Indecent Assault
At Aylesbury, on Saturday, Oct. 6, Mr. George Jones, painter, was charged with indecently assaulting the wife of the Rev. Thomas Roberts; Independent Minister, of Wendover,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Musclebrook. Police Court, Jan. 8Th, 1867. (Before J. H. Keys, F. White, and F. W. Thrum, Esqrs.)
Alexander Cheyne, charged with stealing a quantity of potatoes, the property of J. H. Keys, Esq. After hearing the evidence, the prisoner was called on to account for the potatoes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scone. Police Court, Jan. 11, 1867. Present: James Smith, Esq, P.M.
I have nothing worth writing from this office to-day, there being only one case for hearing under the Masters and Servants Act, and this was Eneas Collins summoned â M'Intyre for £9 odd, for harvest work done at the end of the harvest. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Last Bushranging Outrage. Murder of Four Policemen
We copy the following telegrams, sent on Friday last to the Herald and Empire, from Braidwood:— [Empire.]—Yesterday evening a trooper came into town, and reported the finding of the bodies of two of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daring Plan of Escape From Darlinghurst Gaol. (From the S. M. Herald, Jan. 16.)
A novel and audacious project of escape from Darlinghurst Gaol, concocted by some of the confinees with confederates outside, has just been detected, and proves to be of such a nature as,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MURRURUNDI. (From our old correspondent,"Argus. Police Court, Jan. 15Th, 1867. (Present T. W. Wright Esq., J.P, Andrew Loder, Esq., J. P. and Alexander Brodie, Esq., J.P.)
John M'Cabe, found guilty of vagrancy, was fined £1; in default of payment one week's imprisonment. John M'Donald, on two charges—the first of larceny, the other on suspicion of stealing a watch—was remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents] Singleton. Police Court, Tuesday, 15Th Jan., 1867. (Before his Worship the Mayor, W. C. Lesley, R. A. Rodd, and G. P. Bowman, Esqs.)
LARCENY.—Anne Irwin, on remand, was charged with stealing a cheque for £10, the property of William Collins. The evidence taken on the previous Tuesday having been road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Monday, 14Th January, 1867. (Before H. J. Bolding, Esq., Police Magistrate
Abraham Mills, for drunkenness. Discharged with a caution. William Pringle, for obscene language. Fined 5s., or 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. (Before H. J. Bolding, Esq., P.M., and J. Windeyer, Esq., J.P.)
George Nowlan, on remand, was discharged at the request of his master. BREACH OF PUBLICANS' ACT.—Margaret Holdstook, of the Steamship Hotel, was summoned for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton. Police Court, Tuesday, 22Nd January, 1867. (Before His Worship the Mayor and J. Lethbridge, Esq.)
STEALING FRUIT.—Patrick M'Cormack and John Jarmaine, two lads apparently of the respective ages of twelve and thirteen years, were charged with entering the garden of Henry Glennie, Esq., at Flower Bank, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raymond Terrace. Police Court, 21Th Jan., 1867. (Before H. J. Holding, Esq., Police Magistrate.)
George Polies was found guilty of using obscene language, and was fined 10s, or twenty-four hours. An extension of license was granted to the following persons, to keep booths on the racecourse, on the 26th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Stealing:: the Police Resisted, and a Settler Shot. (From the Wagga Wagga Express, Jan. 19.)
Late on Wednesday night some excitement was created in town by a report that a man named Douglas McGregor, formerly landlord of the Bridge Hotel, in this town, but now a settler on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt to Convey Gunpowder Into Darlinghurst Gaol. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)
On Tuesday, before the Water Police Magistrate, Andrew Anderson and Thomas Campbell, remanded from the 15th on a charge of attempting on the 14th instant, to convey gunpowder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Panic at Tottenham Court Road Chapel
A panic was created in Tottenham Court Road Chapel on Sunday night, Oct. 7, under the following circumatances:—The Rev. J. W. Boulding was preaching to a congregation of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton. Police Court, Tuesday, 29Th January, 1867. (Before his Worship the Mayor, J. C. S. M'Douall, J. Johnstone, J. Larnach, and G. P. Bowman, Esqs., J.P.S.)
CATTLE-STEALING.—William Hopkins, who had been apprehended at Walgett under a warrant charging him with stealing seven head of cattle, the property of John Browne, Eaq., Was brought before the court. Upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Musclebrook. Police Court, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1867. (Before J. Smith, Esq., P.M.; T. Hungerford, and W. Bowman, Esqrs., J.P's.)
William Lootroo, charged with stealing goods and chattels, the property of William Eaton, which were found in the possession of prisoner. The evidence of constables Boon and Thompson,…
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