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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime
39 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
BEFORE his Honor Judge Purefoy, Chairman. His Honor took his seat at half-past ten o'clock a.m. Mr C. H. Walsh, Mr J. T. Gannon, and Mr Freestone, solicitors, represented the legal profession…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TUESDAY, July 10th: Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs Wright and Styles, J.P. WAGES.—Robert Mueller summoned William Cooper, of Mac's Reef, for the sum of £7 18s 4d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TUESDAY, July 17th : Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Hayley, Wright, and Levy. ARTICLES OF THE PEACE.—James Hall was summoned by Eliza King, who complained that on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE investigation of the charge against John Clarke, of Ballalaba, for having murdered an aboriginal named Billy Noonang, on or about the 23rd of October last, was conducted at the Braidwood Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HORSE STEALING.âEdward Armstrong, aged 12 years, was brought before the court on Saturday, charged with stealing a bay pony, the property of J. O. Tucker, publican, Mac's Reef. The pony had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before Messrs G. R. Elliott and H. H. Voss. SHOCKING GRAVE-YARD DISCLOSURES. Richard Switson, undertaker, appeared on summons, to answer the information of Frederick King,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Probst has made a full confession to his priest of all the murders of the Deering family, commencing with Cornelius Carey, the hired boy. He had no accomplice in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our quiet township was startled on the morning of the 18th instant by the report of a murder having been committed on the previous day, at the Back Springs, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AIDING A BUSHRANGER.—William Bruce and Lucy Hurley were charged with aiding and abetting the bushranger Thomas Connell. The male prisoner was apprehended on Wednesday week last at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burgess, Kelly, and Levy, were found guilty, and sentenced to death. A remarkable scene took place in court. The judge was proceeding to address the prisoner,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPTURE OF THE BUSHRANGER BOURKE.—Information was received on 5th instant, by telegram from Melbourne of the capture of Robert Bourke, who earned for himself a villainous notoriety in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Andrew Morion, Esq., J.P. took the necessary oath as a magistrate of the territory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Wednesday, October 17th, before Captain Scott, Police Magistrate, and Mr W. T. Pinhey, William Henry Scott, under remand from Wednesday last, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE his Honour Mr. Deputy Judge Simpson. The proceedings of this court commenced directly after the close of the sessions. Several of the cases were settled out of court. The undefended cases…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr W. B. Dalley, instructed by Messrs Gannon and Billyard, for the plaintiff, and Mr. G. G. Davis, instructed by Mr. C. H. Walsh, for the defendant. The plaintiff Mr Michael Herbert, late of Naas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the 16th June, a prisoner named Wilson has appeared periodically in our police reports, and from time to time be has been charged with the murder of George Dobson, on the 28th May last. The delay,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HORSE-STEALING.—William Bryant, alias Terrible Billy, who has several times been remanded to custody on charge of horse-stealing, was after further examination, discharged from custody…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE the Police Magistrate. PETTY LARCENY.—John James Jarvis, 13 years of age, forwarded under warrant from Cooma, was charged with stealing a pistol, the properly of Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"I have to report everything on this rush most quiet—in fact, I never was on a similar place where there was so little drunkenness or rowdyism. The police have never been called on, nor have we had a…
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