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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

283 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 15

Goulburn District Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 2

At this Court on Tuesday, before Judge Fitzhardinge, Emily Ware ened Frederick Francis Cripps for £11, breach of agreement. Mr. A. M. Betts for plaintiff; Mr. O'Brien for defendant…

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Small Debts Court. (Before the same Magistrates.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 May 1903 · page 2

A. E. HERBERT V. W. R. SMITH.—Claim of £2 8s agistment. Mr. ross for defendant. Verdict for defendant, with 4s witness's expenses. DAFT v. WARING—To recover £8 5s, work and…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 May 1903 · page 2

CONSIDERABLE excitement has been occasioned at Captain's Flat(says the Dispatch)in connection with an alleged cattle stealing case. It appears that a grazier in the…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 May 1903 · page 2

A Warden's Court mt held at the Courthouse, Braidwood, on Monday latt before Mr. Warden Elliott. The only business was an application, by Alexander Hay, fur six months suspension of labor…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY (Before A. Elliott, Esq., P.m.) Breach of the Sheep Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 May 1903 · page 2

E. J. Reardon was summoned by William McCaffrey for that on the 39th April last at Six Mile Flat he (Reardon) befog the drover of certain travelling stock, to wit about 4000 sheep, along the…

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Alleged Stealing

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1903 · page 2

Captain’s Plat, Thursday.—At. the police Court yesterday Mrs. Mary Ann Mackay, a half-caste, was charged with having must in her possession reasonably supposed to be…

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Suppression of Stock-Stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 May 1903 · page 2

OWING to the amount of stock stealing throughout the State, and which seems to be on the increase, some of the lending stock owners in this district have…

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Police Court. Monday, May 18. [Before Messrs. W. J. Chapman and G. A. Hodges, Js.P.]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1903 · page 2

G. Fisher for allowing 3 horses to stray in the Recreation Reserve, pleaded not [?] after [?] evidence of Inspector of [?] fined os, 2s 6d costs…

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Cattle Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 2

THAT little historic town—with the nautical name—nestled between a rough and rugged mass of hills on the other side of the range, has of late made its name in a sense rather…

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Braidwood Police Court MONDAY. Before Messrs. W. J. Chapman Rod G. A. Hodges, J'a.P.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 2

Walter Dolman was charged on the information of H. C. Parnell, Inspector of Nuisances, with driving a sulky in the street without a light. He pleaded guilty. Fined 5s and 2s 6d costs…

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Grand and Jones Sentenced to Death

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 May 1903 · page 2

ON Tuesday Digby Grand and Henry Jones were found guilty of the murder of Constable Long, at Auburn. Mercy was recommended on the grounds that there was…

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The Courts. Small Debts Court. Wednesday, May 20Th, 1903. (BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Wright Gale, Whitehead, Pike and Southwell, Js.P.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 May 1903 · page 2

There were only two cases for hearing, in the first of which the sum sued for was paid into court on the previous evening. Mr. Woodward, for plaintiff, however…

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Police Court. Wednesday, May 20Th. (Before the same magistrates!) Breach of the Travelling Stook Act

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 May 1903 · page 2

F. Leonard was summoned or the information of E. T. Gibbs for a breach of the Travelling Stock Act. Mr. Woodward, for defendant, stated…

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Police Court. Nathaniel Gibbs v. Fred Leonard

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

Mr. Garraway for plaintiff, and Mr. Woodward for defendant. Plaintiff proceeded against defendant who is a drover, on three charges : (1) For not producing a travelling stock permit;…

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Close of the Auburn Murder Trial

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

The Auburn murder trial was concluded on Tuesday. His Honor, in summing up, said it made one's blood boil to think that advocates should impute that the police had willfully got evidence…

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POLICE v. Dennis Murphy

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

DENNIS MURPHY was charged with that he did during the month of March last purchase on sheepskin with an effaced brand, and pleaded not guilty…

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POLICE v. Edward Ryan

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

(BEFORE the P.M., Dr. Blackall, and Messrs Gale, Whitehand, and Wright, Js.P.) Edward Ryan was charged with selling…

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Murder at Mount Morgan

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 May 1903 · page 2

WM. CAHILL, the night waterman at the Mount Morgan Mine (Q), who was found on Wednesday morning in a pool of blood with a wound in the back of his head, died…

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District Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 May 1903 · page 2

THIS court was opened this morning at 10 o'clock. The cause list was light and the hearing of causes resulted as follows:-- D. Ahearn v. F. Connors.--No…

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Police Court Monday, May 25. (Before Messrs. A. Elliott, P.M., W. J. Chapman and R. Kennedy, J’s.P.) Breach of Municipal by Laws

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1903 · page 2

J. McKeon, W. Sebbons, E. Barlow, and G. A. Griffiths pleaded guilty to a charge laid by the Inspector of Nuisances [?] riding on bicycles in Wallace-street…

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