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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1891

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

The Queanbeyan Age with Which Is Incorporated The Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Saturday, November 14, 1891. the Sheep-stealing Cases

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 2

THE rapid increase in the crime of sheep-stealing has been noticeable all over the colonies, and has begun to assume alarming dimensions. The cause of this increase is…

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District Court. Wednesday, November 11, 1891. (Before His Honor Judge Murray) Ah Kew V. Wah You

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 2

Claim £45 1s 0d, wages due. Mr. Davidson, for plaintiff, Mr. Gannon for defendant. Defendant gave evidence to the effect that he…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, November 17. (Before Mr. J. L. King, P.m.) Sheep Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 2

Donald M'Donald, John M'Intyre, and Abigail M'Donald were charged with having stolen 21 sheep, the property of John M'Namara, of London Bridge, on or about the 13th instant…

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Weston Sentenced

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 December 1891 · page 2

Sydney, Friday—Weston, clerk for the Sydney Hydraulic Power Company, who was convicted of embezzlement, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment on each charge,…

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Shocking Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—A boy, 15 years of age, was committed for trial yesterday at New castle charged with a shocking assault on a little girl, 8 years old…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday, December 17. (Before Messrs. W. Afflock and G. Harcourt, J's.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 3

The following cases of failure to cause attendance of children at school for the period required by law, for six months ending June 30, 1891, were dealt with:—…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Monday, December 21. (Before A. M. Dulhunty, Esq., J. P.) Indecent Language

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 December 1891 · page 2

Charles Robert was charged with using indecent language in Balcombe-street, Quean-beyan, Saturday evening, December 19. Prisoner was fined 10s or in default 24 hours'…

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