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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1898

227 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 12

Braidwood Land Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 September 1898 · page 2

The following case which name before the Court on Thursday last were omitted from our report in lust issue owing to the official list having been temporarily mislaid .—…

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Braidwood Police Court. Thursday, Sept. 29. (Before Messrs. Kenny and McDonald) Illegally on Premises

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

Frederick William Wisbey was charged with having been on the premises of George Casey, on the Araluen Road, for an unlawful purpose. Defendant pleaded not guilty…

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Warden's Court. Mr. Warden Maitland held a Warden's Court In Braidwood yesterday. Conflicting Applications

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

Patrick Coffee objected to the applications of James S. Hawkes, F. S. Hindmarsh, and M. McWilliams, for a lease of 10 acres at Snowball, adjoining the prospectors' claim. Mr. Ross…

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Meagher & Norton. The Pitt Street Fracas. Police Court Proceedings

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 2

AT the Central Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. F. W. Edwards, S.M., John Norton, 38, journalist, on remand, was charged by warrant with having on sept…

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Action for Assault. A Wagga Case. Committal for Perjury

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 2

AT the Wagga Circuit Court last Friday, before the Chief Justice, Bartholomew Bruen sued Patrick Moran, a local storekeeper, to recover £5000 damages for an assault…

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Sensational Scenes in a Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 2

DURING the cross-examination of Meagher by Norton on Friday afternoon there were several sensational scenes between the two men. Norton made continual reference,…

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Ulupna Creek Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 4

Last week was briefly told the story of the finding on Sept. 20, in Ulupna Creek, an anabranch of the Murray, seven miles from Strathmerton, of the body of a man tied up…

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Braidwood Police Court. Friday, Sept. 30. (Before Mr. Kenny.) LUNACY

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 2

Mary Jane Soare, who was remanded for a week for medical examination in the Braidwood Gaol, was again brought up. Dr. Llewellyn, Government Medical Officer, and Dr. Cummings deposed that…

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Licensing Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 October 1898 · page 2

DR. RICHARDSON and Mr. De. Sails sat on Wednesday in the Licensing Court. The only cases for consideration were the granting of renewal licences to Mr. Stubbs, of…

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Police Court. Wednesday, October 5Th. Before Messrs. Gale De[?]lis, and Brassey J's P. Unlawfully Stripping Bark

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 October 1898 · page 2

Thomas Yates appeared to answer a summons changing him with having on September 30, unlawfully stripped a quantity of bark from growing timber on an…

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The Powers of Police in Municipal Areas

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 October 1898 · page 2

THE creation of a municipality in a town or district by no means, as some suppose, renders…

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The Licensing Court Wednesday, Oct. 5. (Before Mr. R. J. C. Maddrell, Licensing Magistrate )

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

At the Licensing Court there were no applications for tranfers or renewals. The Licensing Inspector handed up his usual report on the conduct and condition of the public houses in the…

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Police Court. Wednesday, Oct. 5. (Before Messrs. Gale, De Salis, and Brassey, J's.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

Thomas Yates was charged with that on 30th September last, not being a person lawfully claiming under any license, did use certain crown lands, to wit: annual lease…

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Braidwood Police Court Wednesday, October 5. (Before Messrs. W. J. Chapman, R. J. C. Maddrell and J. McDonald.) Stripping Bark Without a License

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

Walter Grant was summoned on the information of Senior-constable Caldwell for occupying Crown lands near Major's Creek on the 28th August and stripping trees thereon fur wattle bark without…

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Small Debts Court Wednesday, October 5. (Before the same Magistrates.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

CHARLIE FARRIGH v. MRS. GREENWOOD.—To recover 14s 6d, store goods supplied. The defendant being known to be a married woman the plaintiff on being questioned by the Bench said he…

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The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Ncorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Fla Miner. Saturday, October 8, 1898 Local and General. Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

At the quarterly meeting of the Queanbeyan Licensing Court, held on Wednesday, before Messrs S. L. Richardson and G. DeSalis, a transfer was granted from Mr Mahoney to…

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Local News. Police Court. a Distressing Case of Lunacy. Friday, October 7Th

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 October 1898 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. J. Gale, J.P. Margaret Nina Florence Cameron, aged 19, who had that day been arrested at her mother's residence at Canberra, charged…

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Extraordinary Scene in Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 October 1898 · page 3

A SCENE of disorder unprecedented in the courts followed the repudiation by Mr. Norton in the Central Police Court on Friday that he had acted…

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Lisson Sentenced to Death

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 3

The jury in the Lisson trial, having been [?]cked up all Thursday night, came into court on Friday with their verdic; when the [?]reman said:—The jury have faithfully and…

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Braidwood Police Court MONDAY. (Before Messrs. J. Kenny and J. McDonald.) Alleged False Pretences

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 2

Henty Ballantyne Goodwin was charged with obtaining money under false pretences from U. Stowe, publican at Captain's Flat. On the application of the police the accused was…

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