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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

208 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 11

Brutal Wife Murder

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 January 1901 · page 3

A baker named Edward Nash brutally murdered his wife at Burnley, Victoria, yesterday…

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Police Court. Monday December 31. (BEFORE Dr. Blackall, W. Beatty and W. Pike J s.P.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 3

THERE were two police cases set down for hearing at 10 o'clock on Monday, but owing to the absence of the O.P.S. and a doubt as to the logality of the proceedings,…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 2

At the local Police Court on Monday afternoon last, before Messrs. W. Pike, Blackall and Beatty, J's.P., Mark Dyball was charged with alleged cattle stealing,…

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Police Court. Monday, January 7, 1901. BEFORE Messrs. J. McKensey, P.M., A. Brassey, W. Beatty, and W. Pike, J's.P. Breaking and Entering

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

Edward O'Connor, an old man, well-known in this district, on remand, appeared to answer a charge of breaking and entering the kitchen of St. Benedict's Convent…

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A Yarmouth Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 4

London, Nov. 23rd.—Some weeks ago a young woman was found dead on Yarmouth sand, strangle with whipcord, and with clothes disarranged. She was identified as a…

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Police Court. Monday, January 7, 1901. (Before, Mr. M'Kensey, P.M., and Messrs. Brassey, Pike and Beatty, J's.P.) a Reduced Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 2

Edward O'Connor was charged, on remand with breaking into and entering St. Benedict's Convent, Queanbeyan, on December 28th…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY, (Before the Police Magistrate.) LICENSES

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1901 · page 2

A hawker's license was granted to Mary Aueb. Ad application by John Heazlett for a booth license was postponed. LANGUAGE…

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Police Court. Wednesday, January 16Th. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. W. Beatty.) Hawker's Licence

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 2

A hawker's licence warranted to W. A. Deans. (Before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Atkinson, Brassey, and Beatty.)…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr McKensey, P.M.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 2

Henry Johnson was charged with using obscene language, and was fined 10s and 4s 10d costs. For cruelty to animals, to wit, flogging a…

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Glamorgan Police Force

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 1

At the Standing Joint Committee of the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions and County Council held to-day at Cardid, Mr. O. H. Jones presiding, the Chief…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 3

ON Saturday evening a named John Ryon attempted to murder Homy Grimshaw by shooting him in the back with a breech-loading gun. Ryan then returned…

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Murder In a Railway Train

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--A man named Hill who has been a British soldier, yesterday shot and killed an elderly farmer named Pearson in a lavatory compartment on a London…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 2

J. Feehan pleaded guilty to not having registered his dairy, and wm fined £2 and costs…

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Braidwood Police Court. Tuesday, Jan. 29. (Before W. J. Chapman and W. Marsh, Esq.) WAGES

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 2

Peter James Toole sued William McCaffrey for £21 wages. There was no appearance of plaintiff. The case was struck out, with £1 1s professional costs against plaintiff. Mr. Roas appeared for…

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Braidwood Police Court. THURSDAY, Before the P.M. and Messrs. Chipman, Byrne and Read.) Indecent Language

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 2

Letitia Clarke was charged with using indecent language in Wilson-street on the 20th inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty. James Malone gave evidence for the prosecution…

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Small Debts Court. MONDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 February 1901 · page 2

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL v. W. ROGERS—The cms was not gone into, his Worship being of opinion from a reference to the Municipalities Act that the proceedings should have been taken under that Act…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, February 4. (Before J. McKensey, Esq., P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 February 1901 · page 2

W. Carmody and A. Yeates were charged with riotous behaviour in Wallace-street on Saturday night last. They were arrested by Constable McKenzie, and appeared before the court on bail…

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In the Eyes of Innocence. the Court, the Sentence and the Victim

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 1

As the posse of stern, grim-visaged men, with the prisoner in their midst, climbed the slope to the squalid mining-camp, Scotty veered to the left, and cantered to a hut that…

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In the Police Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 February 1901 · page 6

"Did the woman give any reason for attempting suicide?" said the magistrate to the constable. "Yes, yer worship," was the constable's…

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Paris Chief of Police Outwitted

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 February 1901 · page 2

Some years ago the contraband trade in Swiss washes was carried to such an excess that the Paris Chief of Police considered himself called upon to make a great exertion…

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