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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

208 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 11

Trials for Murder. Should Capital Punishment be Abolished?

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 1

Probably the main ground of the interest felt in trials for murder, remarks the "Saturday. Review," is the is the intense personal concern every man feels in his own safety…

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Court Proceedings

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1901 · page 2

AT the monthly sittings of the small debts court on Wednesday there were only two cases for hearing, neither of them being of any public importance. Verdicts for…

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Trials for Murder. Should Capital Punishment be Abolished?

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 June 1901 · page 1

Probably the main ground of the interest felt in trials for murder, remarks the “Saturday. Review” is the intense personal concern every man feels in his own safety…

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Braidwood District Court Thursday, June 20. (Before Judge Fitzhardinge.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 2

J. O'BRIEN v.WARE —TO recover £5. Mr. Ross for plaintiff. Defendant did not appear, Verdict for plaintiff amount claimed and coats. J. O BRIEN v. P. MALONE, —To recover £518s 2d…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Saturday, June 22Nd. Before Messrs. J. Gale and Thos. Whitehead, J's.P. Fraudulent Appropriation

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 June 1901 · page 2

Charles Matthews Dundas Field, in custody, was presented to the court charged with having fraudulently appropriated to his own use the sum of 196, the property of…

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Braidwood Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before Messrs. Kenny and March.) Unsound Mind

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 June 1901 · page 2

Ah Goon, a Chinaman, working as a gold digger near Eastfield, Mongarlowe was brought up for being nf unsound mind. Dr. Llewellyn, Government Medical Officer…

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Braidwood Police Court. Saturday. (Before Messrs. Kenny and Marsh.) Unsound Mind

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 July 1901 · page 2

Ah Good, who was remanded on Monday for medical treatment in gaol, was again brought up. Dr. Llewellyn, Government Medical Officer, and Dr Cummings, who had visited the defendant in…

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A Critical Case. A Senior-Inspector of Police Submits His Evidence

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 July 1901 · page 2

Dr. Morse's [?] Root Pills add one more name to the long list of their wonderful [?]. It is for those once placed on the verge of the grave, and who have been given a longer term of life by the…

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His Wife's Expenses. Prisoner Before the Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 2

Magistrate : "Officer, what's the charge against this man?" Officer: "Drunk and disorderly, yer washup…

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What Is "Cognac Brandy?" a Recent Court Case

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 1

Some interesting information has lately been given at Dublin concerning the usual composition of brandy, and a grocer has obtained damages from a…

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Federal High Court

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 2

It is understood that a bill to constitute the High Court of Australia is now ready for final revision by the Federal Cabinet. At present no attempt will be made in the bill…

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What Is “Cognac Brandy ?” a Regent Court Case

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 1

Some interesting information has lately been given at Dublin concerning the usual composition of brandy, and a grocer has obtained damages from a…

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In a Chinese Law Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 2

One day while we in the body of the court were hearing some endless land case drag its slow length along (writes a contributor to "Blackwood's Magazine"), on a sudden the…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. Thursday, June 11. (Before J. McKensey (Chairman). W. J. Chapman and J. H. Byrne, Esqs.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 2

The only business before the Court was an application by Arthur D. Merton for a conditional publican's license at Major's Creek. Mr. Payne appeared for applicant. Plans of the proposed…

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Home From the War. Lieut.-col. John Campbell's Reception at Tillington Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 2

THE old residents of Queanbeyan district will well remember the late Mr. George Campbell's eldest son, John E. R. Campbell, who, after spending the days of his…

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Police Court. Wednesday, July 17Th

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Atkinson, Whitehead, and Beatty, J's.P. SUNDAY SHOOTING. Three youths--Henry Land, Bert…

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Small Debts Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 2

At the monthly sittings of the court of petty sessions for recovery of small debts on Wednesday last there was a clean sheet, and consequently no business…

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Police Court. JULY 17

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 July 1901 · page 2

(Before Messrs J. McKensey, P.M., Beatty, Atkinson and Whitehead Js.P.) SHOOTING CASE. A case against three defendants for…

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Goulburn Police Court Thursday. [Before the P.m. and Mr. Roberts] Selling a Railway Ticket

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1901 · page 2

William Gardiner pleaded guilty to selling the return: half of a railway ticket from Sydney to Tarago Mr. O’Brien for defendent…

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Police Duties

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 4

The Gilbertian saying that "a policeman's lot is not a happy one" receives more forcible emphasis with almost every new legislative enactment in this State…

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