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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime
48 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3
George Smith, per Asia, surrendered himself into custody, as a ticket-of-leave holder for the Queanbeyan district, applying to be returned to Government, as being unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before C. E. NEWCOMBE, Esq. Police Magistrate. ARSON. William Judd was brought up and charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Goulburn assizes were opened on Monday, by His Honor SIR ALFRED STEPHEN, Chief Justice. Mr Windeyer prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. The only other barrister present was Mr Isaacs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Corcoran, alias Cochrane, was convicted of having, on the 18th February, 1862, at Sooley Valley, assaulted, wounded, and robbed one William Kilminster. Prisoner was sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday John M'Intosh sued Mr Campbell for wages amounting to £10 3s 3d for services as shepherd in defendant's employ. On going into the case it was proved that complainant was indebted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. PAYNE made application to the bench on Tuesday, for the appointment of poundkeer at Gundaroo, vice Affleck, resigned. The applicant, however, not being prepared with his sureties, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKARD FINED.—On Thursday last, Thomas Flannagan was convicted of being drunk and disorderly, and for that offence fined 5s. and discharged with a caution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COMMITTAL FOR HORSE-STEALING.—On Monday last, James Kennedy, who had been remanded from the previous week, on a charge of horse-stealing, was again brought up. From the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOWARDS the close of the sitting at the Bow-street police-court on the afternoon of the 25th of April, an intimation was received by the chief magistrate, Sir Thomas Henry, that Miss Constance Kent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANOTHER chapter has been added to the Road-hill tragedy. Miss Constance Kent was brought a few days ago before the magistrates at Trowbridge, and an extraordinary scene took place…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most frightful murders that has ever occurred in this part of the country was perpetrated on Tuesday night last, or early on Wednesday morning, at Bowling-alley Point, Peel River, about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE details of the tragedy announced in our last are now before the world, and not only in America, but throughout Europe, men's minds are absorbed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE trial of David Young, for the murder of Margaret Graham, at Daylesford, terminated on the 28th July. The nature of the evidence, which had occupied the court for three days,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constance Emilie Kent was indicted at Salisbury assizes, on June 21, for the wilful murder of Francis Saville Kent, at Road-hill House, on June 29, 1860. Mr Karslake, Q.C., and Mr Lopes appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →42. W. Lee v G. W. Rowley, £1 1s; attorney for plaintiff, Mr Freestone. 44. C. Chippendale v M. Herbert, £175 7s 4d; attorney for plaintiff, Mr Gannon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY morning a most impudent and daring escape was effected from the Braidwood gaol. The prisonere had just been let out by the warders into the recreation ground at six o'clock, and ten minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →42 W. Lee v G. W. Rowley, £1 1s; attorney for plaintiff, Mr. Freestone. 44. C. Chippendale v M. Herbert, £175 7s 4d; attorney for plaintiff, Mr Gannon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before his Honor, W F. Meymott, Esq., Judge. THE business of this court commenced at noon, immediately on the termination of the sessions, the undefended cases, according to usual practice, being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is our painful duty to record the perpetration of another of those horrible murders which are so numerous in the criminal annals of the colony. On Saturday afternoon last Mr Summers' carter was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTHING is easier than to kill a baby. As for the woman Winsor, who carried on the trade of illegitimate child-murder near Torquay, she deserves to be hanged,…
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