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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1879

84 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 5

Police Court, Bungendore. Monday, May 26th

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 May 1879 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs Powell and Burke, Js. P. Stealing from the person. Heary Elliott, alias the Manaro Blondin was charged with the above offence…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Saturday, May 31St. Before the Police Magistrate. Obtaining Goods Under False Pretences

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 June 1879 · page 2

Mary Ann Teesdale was charged wish the above offence. The police deposed to the arrest, and an employee of Mr J. J. Wright, gave…

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Court Park

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 2

We are pleased to notice that of the several hundreds of ornamental trees and shrubs planted last season in the recreation ground (Court Park, as we…

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Court Business

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 2

YESTERDAY, like the previous Tuesday, was a blank in the police and summons charge sheets…

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Attempted Murder of the Russian Czar

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 June 1879 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT of the France at St. Petersburg states as soon as the Czar had entered the Winter Palace after the recent attempt had been made to shoot him,…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, June 24

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 June 1879 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. UNLAWFUL DETENTION OF PROPERTY. Henry Cane, for his son, William John Cane, a minor, sued Phillip Pooley for the…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, July 2nd, 1879. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs M. Byrne and G. Fane De Salis. Small Debts

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 2 July 1879 · page 2

Lough v. Lee. This was a claim for £6 8s. 8d. from Mrs Lee, for goods sold and delivered. There was a set-off for £5 17 9d, a portion of which, 3s 9d., was admitted by…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Friday, July 4, 1879. BEFORE the Police Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

LARCENY.—Peter Smith was charged with stealing £1 10s from the person of one Thos Wellesley on the morning of the 80th June. Thomas Wellesley stated—I am employed…

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Murder of Mr. F. M. Bates

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 3

ON Thursday morning (says the Melbourne Age) the. body of a man was found lying off the roadway, near the Royal Park, with his face in a ditch about five feet deep…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, July 8Th. Before the Police Magistrate. UNPROTECTED

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 2

John Davlin, butcher was summoned for allowing four pet pigs to wander about town without a protector. The Bench inflicted a fine of 1s per head with 3s. 6d…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Thursday, July 17Th. Before the Police Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 2

Peter Orr was brought up charged with being implicated in robbing the stores of Michael Hayes, of Micalago. Mr Parr defended prisoner…

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Horse Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 July 1879 · page 2

PATRICK MALONE, a well-known mail contractor (formerly of Queanbeyan and B[?] wood) has been arrested and brought before the magistrates' bench at B[?] to answer a…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, 22Nd July. Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs Byrne and Mr Harcourt J's. P.

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 July 1879 · page 2

Peter Orr was brought up on remand for inciting one William Johnson (now in custody in Queanbeyan goal for robbery underarms at Micalago) to commit the said offence…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, 29Th April, 1879

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 July 1879 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs F. Campbell, J. J. Wright, A. J. Cunningham, C. Greenfield, and W. M'Carthy J's,P. Messrs G. De Salis and T. Rutledge took…

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Local Intelligence. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, August 19Th

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 2

George Saunders was brought up in custody, on remand from the previous day. charged with being of unsound mind. The depositions taken on the previous day…

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An Aboriginal Stealing a White Girl

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 4

THE Kilkivan correspondent of the Gympic Times writes as follows:— You will have heard what a ruction Campbell, the blackfellow, has been…

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Love and Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 2

AT the Water Police Court on Tuesday morning, (says the Evening News) before Messrs Heading and Penfold, J.P.'s, a young man of 90, named William Turley,…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, Sept. 16

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 September 1879 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Frederick Jackson, mail driver, was summoned to answer an information charging him with…

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Queanbeyan District Court Thursday—september 11. BEFORE Mr District Court Judge McFARLAND

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 September 1879 · page 2

His Honour directed the court to be called over. No case was however taken, formally opened at 10 o'clock; but adjourned to a later hour for business…

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A Woman Charged with Shooting

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 September 1879 · page 4

AT the Central Police Court, on Friday, (says the Evening News) a married woman named Eliza Paul, aged 19, and of prepossessing figure, was accused of shooting…

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