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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1871

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Law Courts. Cooma Police Court. Monday, September 18, 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1871 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Richard Main, alias Hamilton Hume, was charged with having used indecent…

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Bombala Police Court. Wednesday, September 27, 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Jonas, Rutherford, and Edwards, J.P's SLY GROG-SELLING. Richard Witton appeared to answer…

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Bega Police Court. Tuesday, September 19, 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Wren, Lane, Kirby, and Ritchie, J.P's. [?] V. J. W. SHARPE. For illegally selling spirits on August…

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Law Courts. Cooma Police Court. Monday. September 25, 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 2

BERCUE the Police Magistrate. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. William Dwyer was charged with having been illegally on the premises of…

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New Courts. Cooma Police Court. Monday, October 2, 1871. BEFORE The Police Magistrate, and Mr. A. Mottague, J.P. MAINTENANCE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 2

A. Snodgress v. E. O'Brien. Mr. Castle appeared on behalf of plaintiff Mr. Lipscomb, of defendant. The complainant deposed that she was…

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Bombala District Court

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 2

THE District Court was duly opened at 10 o'clock this morning, by his Honor Judge Macfarland. The legal gentlemen present were…

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Insolvency Court, Cooma. Tuesday, October 3. 1871. BEFORE the District Commissioner, Mr. R. Dawson, P.M.

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 2

A meeting in the estate of William Hanley the younger was held. The insolvent was examined by Mr. Lipscomb, on behalf of a creditor, and the case was…

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Bairnsdale Police Court. Tuesday, September [?], 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 3

[?] Messrs. Drovenason, Day, Morrison, and J. D. Pinith, J'sP. [?] BULLOCK. Edward O'Itourhn was charged with stealings bullock,…

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Bega District Court

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 3

B[?] Judge Mcfarland Elli[?] Rutherford—Claim £1 1[?] 3d. Verdict for plaintiff. Hur[?] Perry-Claim, £14 12s 9d. Verdict, with…

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Bombala Police Court. Tuesday, October 3, 1871. BEFORE Messrs. Jones an Edwards, Ps.P. Receiving Stolen Property

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 5

Thomas Hayes was charged with saving received a quantity of stolen wool. J. Coronel deposed: I was at prisoner's house on the 29th April; I told him that I missed some wool from the…

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Bairnsdale General Sessions. Thursday, September, 11, 1871. BEFORE his Honor Judge [?]indon. Cattle Stealing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 3

Joseph Richard Hawson and Edward Stewart Rawson were charges with stealing one bullock and our cow, the property of Edward O'Rourke, on the 21st day of June, 1871. The second charge was that of feloniously receiving…

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Cooma District Court. Monday, October 9, 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1871 · page 2

BEFORE his Honor Mr. A. Macfarland, Chairman; in the course of the morning the majority of the district Magistrates occupied seats upon the Bench…

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New Courts. Cooma Police Court. Monday, October 16. 1871

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1871 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, and Mr. A. Montague, J.P. MAINTENANCE. The remanded case of Mills c. Cook…

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Law Courts. Cooma Police Court. Thursday, November 2, 1871. BEFORE Captain Battye, J.P. HORSE-STEALING

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 2

Alexander Davis was charged with having stolen a chesnut mire branded WW, the property of Samuel McKay. It was stated by the presiding…

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Assault Upon a Clergyman

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 1

THE late assault upon the Rev. Mr. Bardsley, at Sofala, was tim subject of a magisterial inquiry at Bathurst on Tuesday last, and [?] a good deal of…

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Local Intelligence. the Cooma Gaol

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 2

THE most remarkable feature of our small township, and that which particularly strikes the eye of a stranger, is the commodious gaol now in course of erection…

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Colonial Items. Sale Quarter Sessions. Before Sir Redmond Barryu. Cattle Stealing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 1

Joseph Richard Rawson and Edmund Stewart Rawson pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging them with stealing, on 21st June, a cow the property of…

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Sydney Central Criminal Court. Monday, November 6

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 3

BEFORE his Honor the CHIEF JUSTICE. Thomas William Fiumb, Arthur Brown, and Joseph Worgan were indicted for that they did, at Eden, on the 20th August, maliciously wound, with intent to murder…

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Law Courts. Cooma Police Court. Monday, November 6, 1871. BEFORE Messrs. J. M. Hassal and D. O Bourke, J.P.'s Drunk and Disorderly

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 3

Ezra Margoschis, charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Cooma, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s., and costs, 6s. 6d. The fine was paid…

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Colonial Items. Murder of Bishop Patterson, the Rev. Mr. Atkin, and a Seaman

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 3

FOR some years past, Bishop Patterson, in his schooner, the Southern Cross, has been visiting the various islands in the South Seas as head of the Mclanesian…

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