Queanbeyan Land Court
Sat on Tuesday and yesterday, concluding its sittings early in the afternoon…
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Courts & crime, 1886
138 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 7
Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, Nov. 22. BEFORE Mr. John Gale, J.P., Obscene Language
Andrew O'Kroot, in custody, was brought up, and on the evidence of Constable Park, and F. J. Hincksman found guilty of using obscene language in…
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THIS Court was opened pro forma at 10 a.m. on Friday, a journed till the termination of the business of the Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan Quarter Sessions. Thursday, November 25Th, 1886 BEFORE His Honour Mr. District Court Judge McFarland
Mr. J. C. Woore, P.M. represented the Sheriff; Mr. Piteairn presented on behalf of the Crown; the other members of the legal profession present were, Messrs…
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A YOUNG man, named Sidney Russell gave himself up to the police at Bere Regis, Dorset, stating he had murdered his grand mother, Sarah Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan District Court. Friday, Nov. 26Th. Before Mr. District Court Judge McFarland
His Honour took the business of this Court immediately after the close of the business of the criminal court. Several of the cases entered on the cause list had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, Nov. 30Th. (Before the Police Magistrate) Cutting and Wounding
Michael O'Grady (on remand on bail) I appeared to answer a charge of inflicting a grevious bodily harm on Thomas Humphries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gooch v. Young. Wednesday, December 1. BANCO COURT.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett and a jury of four.)
Mr. Field (instructed by. Mr. John Davidson) appeared for the plaintiff John Campbell Gooch, and Mr. O'Connor (instructed by Mr. Thornton Gray)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queabeyan Police Court. (BEFORE the Police Magistrate, and G. Tompsitt, Esq., J.p.) Lunacy
John Robins, a butcher employed in the service of Mr J. T. Collett of this town, was brought up charged with being of unsound mind. The evidence disclosed that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan Small Debts Court. Tuesday, December 7. (BEFORE the Police Magistrate.)
Barrington v Crace.— Postponed by consent of both parties till next court. Michael Grady v.T.C. McCord.— Claim for £9, goods sold and delivered…
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A terrible tragedy has been enacted at the residence of Mr. C. Spicer about two miles out of Taralga. When Mr. Spicer came home to dinner on Thursday he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Intelligence. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, December 14, 1886. (BEFORE the Police Magistrate.) Absconding From Hired Service
John Neil, who had been apprehended on warrant charging him with absconding from the hired service of Philip Pooley, pleaded guilty, and in default of payment…
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Mr. E. B. Kellaway has (says the Brisbane Courier) received a telegram dated Port Darwin, 8th instant, in reply to a request for particulars of the spearing of…
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No further particulars than those mentioned in our last issue, in which it was stated that Mr. John Durack had been foully murdered by blacks in Western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murder of Bishop Hannington
THE Church Missionary Society has just received from Zanzibar the diary of the late Bishop Hannington, written up to the very day of his…
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CHARLES SPICER, residing near Taralga on returning home at five o'clock on Thursday evening, found his wife hanging from a raftor, and his infant child, four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Micalago. Police Court. Thursday, December 16. (Before Messrs. A. Ryrie, J. C. Ryrie, and A. Peden, J's.P.)
COOEY CHONG (on remand) charged with stealing a sheepskin, was discharged; there being no appearance of the prosecutor. Richard Clements charged with stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary Scene in a Queensland Police Court
A correspondent of the Brisbane Courier writing from Cairns, on 11th December, says:—"The Police Court was occupied during the last two days in hearing three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Dreadful Tragedy—Murder of Six Persons
Chicago, November 17.—A special dispatch from White River, Ont., a small station on the Canadian Pacific, gives the particulars of a horrible tragedy which…
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