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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1899

251 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 13

Braidwood Police Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Damage to Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

Charles Burke, of Warrambucca, was summoned by James Riley for being the owner of a dog, which on the 2nd August last at Warambucca destroyed fourteen lambs, the properly of the said William…

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FRIDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Cruelty to Animals

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

POLICE v. O'NEILL.—Charge of driving two horses not fit to be worked in Malone's passenger coach from Tarago to Braidwood that morning. Defendant pleaded guilty. Fined £2, and 4s 10d…

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Braidwood Small Debts Court. Wednesday, Sept. 6. (Before the Police Magistrate) S. FLETCHER v. F. GRANT

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

To recover £9 the price of a horse lent to defendant which died through proverty and illtreatment. Mr. Ross appeared for plaintiff, Mr. Fell for…

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Police Court. FRIDAY 8th inst. (Before Messrs Wright, Lazarus, and Beatty J P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

Edwin Ch[?]les Harris, on bail, was charged with being drunk in Mona'o Street on 7th instant. He pleaded guilty and was fined Is…

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Araluen Police Court. Tuesday, Sept. 5. (Before [?] Murphy, Esq., P.m.) Forging and Utter[?]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

Gilbert Herbert was charged with forging and uttering an order purporting to be signed by his brother, George Herbert. Evidence was given by senior-constable Madden…

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Police Court. Friday, September 8. BEFORE Messrs. Wright, Lazarus and Beatty, Js.P. Attempted Suicide

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 September 1899 · page 3

THE charge against E. C. Harris, partly reported in our last issue, was sustained by the following additional evidence:--Constable Park added to the evidence…

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Dreyfus Condemned Sentenced to 10 Years Detention in a Fortress. London, September 10

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 September 1899 · page 3

The court-martial at Bonnes has delivered its decision in the Dreyfus case. By a majority of five votes to two Dreyfus was condemned, and was sentenced to…

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A Strange Murder

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 3

AT Wishita, Kansas, an Indian girl named Hattie Redbird was tried the other day for the murder of her lover, Joseph Ryan. The girl confessed,…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 3

TO-MORROW'S business at the court will be exceptionally heavy. On Monday William John Smith was charged with the larceny of a tarpaulin. Acoused was remanded…

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A Strange Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 4

At Wishita, Kansas, an Indian girl named Hattie Redbird was tried the other day for the murder of her lover, Joseph Ryan. The girl confessed, and in describing how she…

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Police Court. Wednesday, September 20.„ [Before Mr. Marsh, J.P.]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 2

Alice Murphy for having imbibed rather too freely, and being rendered incapable was fined 10s. William Towosend for obscene language,…

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Police. Wednesday, September 20Th. Before the same Magistrates. Indecent Language

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 2

John Currie of Captain's Flat, charged with having used indecent language, in the Queanbeyan Park, during the progress of the recent football match between the…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

John Carrie was charged with using indecent language while playing football at Queanbeyan on Friday, September 15th. He pleaded guility, and was tined £2 10s and…

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Braidwood Police Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before W. Marsh, Esq., J.p.) Drunkenness, &c

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

Alice Murphy, a married woman, was charged with being drunk in Wallace-street, and was fined 10s or 48 hours in gaol. The alternative was accepted…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr Murphy P.M.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

Phebe Ann Blundell sued Henry Lee for 3 15s for rent due, and £2 5. for damages. Plaintiff deposed to having let a cottage at Weetangera to defendant for 5 a year…

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Police Court. Friday, September 22Nd. Before Messrs. J. Gale and W. Beatty. a Diseased Animal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 September 1899 · page 2

Application was made by the police far the destruction of a steer then in the pound yard, Queanboyan, which was alleged to be suffering from tuberculosis…

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Police Court. Thursday, September 28Th. a Diseased Animal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 2

Dr. Richardson and Mr. Gale eat on the bench yesterday to hear an application from the municipal inspector under the Diseased Animals and Meat Act for the…

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Captain's Flat Police Court. Wednesday, Sept. 27. (Before Messrs. Murphy, P.M. Roach, Gale and Watson, J'.sP.) Breach of the Slaughtering Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

Robert Jobson was summoned for keeping premises for slaughtering cattle without bating obtained a license Case dismissed. W. Jermain was summoned on the same charge…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, Oct. 2. (Before W. Marsh, Esq., J.p.) Attempted Suicide

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 2

James Townsend was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Constable Landers deposed: On Saturday last I saw accused at his residence, Bombay; he was…

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Police Court. Wednesday, October 4. [Before the Police Magistrate, and Mr. W. J. Chapman, J. P.] Assault

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

Jimmy Jack, Long Flat, Major’s Creek, complained that john O’Heir had assaulted him. The grievance arose out of a dispute about a mining claim…

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