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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

263 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 14

The Joss: a Reversion; (Copyright) the Strange Story of Police Blyth by Richmond Marsh Chapter Xx (Continued)

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 March 1902 · page 1

She was just the kind of girl I like to look at yet for some reason I hardly allow my eyes to [?] in her [?] I could look at Miss Blyth [?]…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 2

(Before Mr McKensey, P.M., and Mr Whitehead, J.P.) WEDNESDAY, 19th. John Flannagan was charged with using…

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Bungendore Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 2

A correspondent writes:—At the Police Court on Tuesday, 18th March, before Messrs J. McKensey, P.M. J. J. Mcjannet, and T. Hyles, Js.P. the following cases…

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Horse Stealing Cases

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 2

On Thursday the local police arrested three men on charges of horse stealing. The horses were in the Queanbeyan saleyards, and were to be put up by auction that day…

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Braidwood Police Court. THURSDAY. (Before W. B. [?]usk, Esq., J.P.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 2

James Riley was charged with having, on the 15th day of March, at Warrambucca, assaulted one Thomas McGrath, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 2

Queanbeyan, Friday.—The three men Daniel Cooper. James [?] and Samuel McClelland—arrested yesterday by Constable M’Douagh on a charge of horse-stealing…

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Police Court. Monday, March 24Th. Before Messrs. John Gale and E. G. Atkinson Js.P. Charges of Horse Stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 2

Samuel McClelland, Daniel Cooper and James Brown, on remand, were placed in the dock, and charged in the first instance, with having on the 17th instant, stolen a…

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Police Court. Monday, March 24. (Before Messrs Gale and Atkinson Js.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 2

Samuel McClelland, Daniel Cooper, and James Brown were charged with stealing one bay mare and one creamy pony, property of James Cranston, jun., Burrowa…

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Australians Court-Martialled and Shot at Pretoria

The Queanbeyan Observer · Thursday 27 March 1902 · page 2

A REPORT is current in Melbourne through a story told to Major-General Hutton and Mr. Barton by a returned officer that two Australian officers were court-martialled…

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Police Court Wednesday (Before the P.M. and Mr. R. Kennedy, J.p.) Assault

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 March 1902 · page 2

James Riley, on bail, appeared charged with assaulting Edward McGrath at [?] occasioning bodily harm. It will be recollected the accused was…

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Municipal Appeal Court

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 March 1902 · page 2

An Appeal Court against the municipal assessment was held at the Court[?] on Wednesday, the P.M. presiding. There were only three appeals. Mr. James O’Brien…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 3

LAST Tuesday a first offender appeared before Mr. John Gale and pleaded guilty fo disorderly conduct and indecent, language, offering in extenuation gross…

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He Preferred the Gaol

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 1

A woman weighed down with many sorrow s[?]d at one of the iron-grated doors of the Prison and talked with ber son. The young man bad been arrested a few hours…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 2

A Warden's Court was held on Wednesday before Warden J. McKensey. An application for a suspension of labor was withdrawn…

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CABLEGRAMS. London, Thursday. Mock Court-martial

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 2

Ten unarmed Boers possessed of twenty thousand pounds of paper money entered the Carbineers camp and as a result of mock martial sentenced death upon…

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Araluen Police Court WEDNESDAY. (Before Meant. J. McKensey, P.M., E. M. Royds, Dr. Quinn, Marceau and I. U. Alley.) George Irwin V.W. BRAITLING

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 2

The defendant pleaded guilty to using abusive language to complainant in a public place in Armluen on the 10th March. Fined 20s and 4s 10d costst of court, and 21s professional costs, in default…

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Police Court. Friday, 4Th April. Before Mr. H. J. Jeffreys, J.B. Larceny As a Bailee

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

A MAN named Harry Freeland, with other aliases, who had been already under remand for the production of warrant, was brought before the court. The police produced a…

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Horse Stealing in Tunis

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 3

A good story of the Circumlocution Office comes from Tunis. A native stole a horse about a year ago from a French settler. He was arrested by the police, sentenced a…

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Police Court. (Friday.) Before Mr Jeffrey's J.P.

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 3

Harry Freeland charged on Warrant from Gilgandra and Coonamble with larceny as a Bailee of two horses, a waggonette and two sets of harness the property of…

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Local and General News. Braidwood Police Magistrate

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1902 · page 2

It was currently reported yesterday that Mr. J. McKensey P.M., is about to be removed to act as a relieving officer. Mr. Elliott of Movnya, who is very highly spoken…

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