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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1884

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Friday, Oct. 3Rd. Before Messrs. J. J. Wright and O. Willians. Ship Desertion

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 October 1884 · page 2

Charles Payne was brought up (on remand) and after the taking of' evidence was ordered to be forwarded to one of Her Majesty's ships in Sydney…

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Local News and Notes. Scene in a Coroner's Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 October 1884 · page 2

DURING the proceedings on Thursday last at the inquest on the poor fellow Macleod who was killed by an explosion on the previous day, a somewhat lively scene occurred between the…

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Queanbeyan Licensing Court. Tuesday, October 7Th. Before Messrs. J. C. Woore and W. F. Rutledge

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 October 1884 · page 2

On the application of Mr. E. E. Morgan, a certificate of license was granted to Henry Warn, for a house at Brooks' Hill. James M. Forrester, by Mr. E. E. Morgan, a…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, Oct. 4. BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Obstructing a Highway

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 October 1884 · page 2

Edward Kendall Crace (on bail) appeared further to answer the information charging him with obstructing her Majesty's highway. Mr. Davidson conducted the proceedings for…

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Local News and Notes, Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, October, 22, 1884. BEFORE the Police Magistrate. E. E. LEES V. Alex. Johnston

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 October 1884 · page 2

Plaintiff claimed £2 12s. 6d for wages as labourer on the railway line. Mr. Parr, who appeared for the defendant, denied the truth of the information…

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Queanbeyan Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 October 1884 · page 2

THE adjourned special licensing court yesterday lapsed for want of a quoraum. The official magistrate (Mr J. C. Woore) took his seat on the bench shortly afternoon…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Saturday, October 18

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 October 1884 · page 2

WE abridge the following cases, tried before Sir. George Innes, and which are of local interest to our subscribers, from the Goulburn papers. Additional particulars are as follows:—…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, 28Th October, 1884. BEFORE the Police Magistrate/ Prosecutions Under the Public Instruction Act

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 2

Cornelius Grady was summoned for neglecting to send his child, Joanna Grady to school. The case occupied a long time, the defence being that the residence of the defendant was…

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District Intelligence. Bungendore. Police Court—18th Oct., 1884

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Thomas Murphy, in custody, charged with using profane language in a public place. The…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, November, 17Th. Before O. Willians, Esq., J.P. DRUNKENNESS

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 November 1884 · page 2

Maurice Brogan and Henry Robinson pleaded guilty to, this offence. Having been in custody since Saturday, and.being in each case a first offence, they were admonished and discharged…

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Wardens Court. Tuesday, 18Th Nov. 1884

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 November 1884 · page 2

BEEORE Mr. Warden Woore. Hugh McNeill and Edward. Hoolan, of Captain's Flat, holders of a gold-mining lease, known and registered as No. 13, applied by the…

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Queanbeyan Licensing Court. Tuesday, Nov. 18Th. Before Messrs. J. C. Woore and G. F. DeSalis

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 November 1884 · page 2

An application was made by Mr. Parr on behalf of Frances Land, for a transfer of the license held by her for the Victoria Hotel, Queanbeyan, to Edwin Henry Land, who was…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, December 2. Before the Police Magistrate. Hawker's Licence

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 December 1884 · page 3

A hawker's license was granted to William Hollitt, of Queanbeyan. SEY-GROG SELLING. John Lukis, who had already been fined 30l,…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan District Court. Friday, Nov. 28Th

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 December 1884 · page 2

BEFORE his Honour Judge MCFARLAND. His Honour took his seat precisely at ten a.m. Many of the cases on the cause list were settled out of court; in others, judgments…

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Murder by a Girl

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 December 1884 · page 3

THE Revel Gazette gives the following account of a preliminary investigation, in which a girl, aged eight years, was charged with having murdered a companion only five…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, December 9Th. Before the Police Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 December 1884 · page 2

William Marriatt, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and, it. being a first offence of this nature, was fined 5s. The same defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of obscene language…

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Murder and Suicide in Bohemia

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 December 1884 · page 3

A TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from Schneeberg, Bohemn, where a brickmaker murdered his two little children. His mother, on hearing of the occurence hanged himself. The…

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Micalago Police Court. Thursday, Dec. 4Th. Before the Police Magistrate of Queanbeyan. DOGS

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 December 1884 · page 2

Sergeant Cade conducted the cases for the prosecution for non-registering of dogs. Thomas Eagan, for not complying with the Act, pleaded not guilty; fined 10/-and 4/10…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, December 21

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 December 1884 · page 2

A MAN named John Ryan was brought up in custody before Mr. O. Willans, J.P., on two charges, viz., drunkenness and obscene language, to each of which he pleaded guilty, and…

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