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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1882

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, August 28

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 August 1882 · page 2

BEFORE O.Willians, Esq., J.P. LUNACY. Timothy Sullivan was brought up on a charge of being of unsound mind, and on the…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Monday—september 11

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 September 1882 · page 2

BEFORE J. J. Wright, Esq., J.P. STEALING FROM A DWELLING. Richard Skinner and Thomas Smith were brought up in custody charged with having…

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Local News and Notes. Police Court Queanbeyan. Tuesday, September 12

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 September 1882 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs J. J. Wright, A. J. Cunningham, and G. Harcourt. LARCENY. Thos, Smith and Richard Skinner, on…

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Local News and Notes. Police Court Queanbeyan. Tuesday, September 26. BEFORE Messrs. J. Cartwright and J. J.M. Wright, J's.P. Trespass on the Town Common

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 2

Luke Colverwell appeared to answer an information filed by Mr Charles Scott, chairman to the trustees of the Queanbeyan town common, on behalf of the trustees,…

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The Lost Luck of Argenton. Chapter I.—at the Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 1

WHEN a man born of the people makes a vast fortune and settles down in the midst of an aristocratic circle, his instincts and natural ambition prompts him to make an…

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Local News and Notes. Police Court Queanbeyan. Monday, October [?]. BEFORE Mr J. J. Wright, J.P. Sheep Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 October 1882 · page 2

Patrick Kavney, of Yeumburra, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing three sheep the property of James Duff. Mr Parr conducted the case for the…

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Police Court Queanbeyan. Tuesday, October 3. BEFORE Messrs. Byrne, Crace, and Cunningham, J's.P

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 October 1882 · page 2

John Gale and Nathan Moses Lazarus, appeared to answer an information charging them for that "they on the 26th day of September instant, being then the trustees…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Small Debts Court. Before Messrs Byrne and Crace. G. Gifford, Sen., [?] W. GAMBELL

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 October 1882 · page 2

Claiim of £5 for damage to grass for felling trees on plaintiff's land. The evidence going to show that the timber was cut on other than freehold land, to which…

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A Melancholy Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 October 1882 · page 4

THE Dublin correspondent of the Times writes:—"On August 19 one more victim has to be added to the dismal story of the ferocious…

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Attempted Murder Near Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 October 1882 · page 4

MUCH excitement has been occasioned in town by the occurrence on Sunday night of a murderous assault by a husband upon his wife…

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The Armidale Murder Case

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 October 1882 · page 2

ON Thursday at Armidale John M.Guan, for the murder of an old man named Smith at inverell, 18 months age ,[?] case the jury had [?] whose…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Police Court, Friday, November 3Rd. Before Mr. J. J. Wright. Malicious Injury

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 November 1882 · page 2

James Jones, Henry Bennett, Philip Pooley, John Malone and Henry M'Garry, appeared on summons to answer an information sworn to by Edward Lesmond, charging them with…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Police Court. Friday, November 3Rd

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 November 1882 · page 2

James Jones, Henry Bennett, Philip Pooley John Malone and Henry M'Garry, appeared on summons to answer an information charging them with having the 31st instant…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Wednesday—november 8Th

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 November 1882 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. J. J. WRIGHT, J.P. John Devilin pleaded gulty to an information charging him with wilfully and mallclously destroying a signboard, the property of E. W. lesmond…

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Queanbeyan Small Debts Court. Tuesday—november 7Th

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 November 1882 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. M. BYRSE and F. CAMPBELL, Js'P. Walker v. Helmund.—Plaintiff obtained a venlict for £3/8 with costs, for goods sold and delivered. A. Beatty v. F. W. Pooley.—Plaintiff claimed £3/10/- for…

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Atrocious Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 November 1882 · page 2

A TELEGRAM to the Echo dated, Adelaide, Wednesday, says:—The quiet town of Hamley Bridge was put into an intense state of excitement on Sunday morning by the rumour that…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Licensing Court. Wednesday, November, 15Th, 1882. BEFORE Mr. O. Williams and Mr. W. F. Rutledge, Licensing Magistrates

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 November 1882 · page 2

Philip Pooley was charged with having committed a breach of the 63rd clause of the Licensing Act by keeping open after 11 p.m., viz., at 1.30 a.m., on the 31st ultimo, his…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, November 21

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 November 1882 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. C. S. Greenfield and Mr. O. Willans. James John Stone was charged on an information with having on the night of the 31st…

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The Alleged Murder in the South Seas

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 November 1882 · page 3

THE schooner Dancing Wave which arrived at an early hour on Tuesday morning, after a prolonged cruise in the South Sea Islands, brings the witnesses to support the charge which has…

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Queanbeyan Adjourned Licensing Court. Wednesday, Nov. 22

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 November 1882 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. O. Willians and Mr. W. F. Rutledge, Licensing Magistrates. The case of Philip Pooley, charged with a breach of the 63rd clause of the Licensing Act,…

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