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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1887

83 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 5

Queanbeyan Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 2

THERE were no cases of any importance at the Police Court this week. Several persons were fined for not sending their children to school, and some other…

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Local Intelligence. Queanbeyan Small Debts Court. Tuesday, June 7, 1887. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 2

William Müller v.—Anderson.—Claim of £7 2/4. Verdict for plaintiff, with costs. Timothy Carney v. Charles Smith—…

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Local Intelligence. Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, June 14, 1887. BEFORE J. J. Wright and M. Byrne Esqs., J.'sP

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 June 1887 · page 2

William Smith, charged with using obscene language, was fined £2 or one month. John LeCount, charged with driving…

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Police Court Proceedings

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 2

TUESDAY'S Police Court procceedings were of the tamest possible character, the attention of the Court being only occupied for a few minutes with some trifling debt…

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New Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 July 1887 · page 2

MR. ARTHUR CHARLES BETTS, acting Chairman of the Local Land Board, has been appointed a magistrate of the colony…

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Country News. Micalago. Police Court, July 7Th. Before J. C.woore, Esq., P.M.

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 July 1887 · page 3

John Farley, on bail, was called to answer a charge of drunkenness, and of [?]rther being disorderly in a public place. [?]o appearance of defendant, and the bail…

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The Murder of a Woman at Wangaratta

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 July 1887 · page 4

A horrible murder was committed near Wangaratta, and discovered on Thursday evening A farmer from Docher's Plains,…

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Queanbeyan Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 2

CATHERINE CLITCHLOE, charged before the Police Magistrate on Tuesday last with using obscene language in a public place, was fined £1, in default of payment 14…

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District Court. BEFORE His Honour Judge McFarlane

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 2

Some thirty cases were set down for hearing at the sitting of the above Court which opened on Wednesday last, the majority being undefended. The minor…

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Local Intelligence. Queanbeyan Quarter Sessions. BEFORE Mr. District Court Judge McFarlane

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 2

The above sessions opened on Tuesday morning last, the only case for trial being that of William Smith, charged with robbery and violence…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 July 1887 · page 2

AT the Queanbeyan Police Court on Saturday before the Police Magistrate, Archibald McIntyre charged with using obscene language in a public place was…

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Queanbeyan Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 July 1887 · page 2

THE quarterly meeting of the "Queanbeyan Licensing Court was to have been held yesterday. At the hour of meeting, however, the only magistrate on the Bench…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 2

ON Thursday, Thomas Elliott was charged before the Police Magistrate with being drunk. and disorderly. Prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was cautioned and…

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Supreme Court. Tuesday, July 26Th. (Before their Honors the Chief Justice, Mr.Justice INNES, and Mr.Justice Stephen.)ex Parte Nathan Moses Lazarus in Re John Allan O'neill

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 July 1887 · page 2

Mr. Colonna Close appeared for applicant Nathan Moses Lazarus, to move to make absolute a writ of quo warrants calling upon respondent. John Allen…

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Land Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 August 1887 · page 3

SITTINGS of the above court will be held at Queanbeyan on the 17th, 18th and 19th instants, in accordance with a Gazette notice of Friday last…

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Micalago. Police Court. Thursday 4Th August, 1887. BEFORE J. C. Woore, Esq, P.M.

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 August 1887 · page 3

The small debts cases were first called and were. as follows :—Emma' Yelland v. Joseph Eaton—In this case plaintiff stated that some time since…

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Chapter Vi. the Murder at the Horseshoe Bend

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 4

SOME days after the repulse of the bushrangers, Esperanza and Virginia Staunton returned to the city of Sydney, accompanied by the father…

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Land Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 2

SITTINGS of the above Court have been held during the past week at the Queanbeyan Court House, before Messrs. A. C. Betts, J.P., (acting chairman) and Mr…

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The Police-ridden Germans

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 August 1887 · page 1

* * * THE first point that will strike an Englishman on taking up his residence in a German town—let us say in Munich, which in all respects is a fair type of the sleepy,…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 August 1887 · page 2

AT the Queanbeyan Police Court yesterday the lad Alfred Gifford, was again brought before the P.M., on a charge of lunacy. The unfortunate young fellow was…

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