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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

217 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 11

Police Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1904 · page 2

Yesterday before A Elliott, Esq., Police Magistrate, Felix Dwyer was charged on the information of T. J. Ha[?] with breaking down a wire fence on the property of…

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District Court

The Age · Tuesday 9 August 1904 · page 3

ONE case was set down fo[?] bearing before the District Court—W. D. Wright v.Thomas Cadden. Mr Millard appeared for complainant, and Mr Woodward for defendant…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 August 1904 · page 2

Felix Dwyer, aged 15, was summoned by James T. Hart, of Krawarree, for having maliciously broken a wire fence, doing damage valued at 3s 6d. Mr. Ross for complainant, and Mr. Moriarty for…

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Police Court

The Age · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 2
Also in The Queanbeyan Observer

ON Wednesday, before Mr. John Gale, J.P., Edward Johnston, who had distinguished himself by his rowdy and offensiv[?] manners during the recent elections, came to grief…

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Police Court

The Age · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 2

EDWARD NEVILLE HEMPHREYS was before a local Bench, consisting of Messrs John Gale and H. J. Jeffreys, Js.P., on Saturday morning to show cause why he should not be…

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Arrested for Wife Assault

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 2

LAST Friday evening, on the sworn information of his wife, Mary Ann Humphries, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Edward Neville…

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Police Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

At the Police. Court yesterday, before Messrs. —James McDonald and J. Kenny Js.P., Edward Bale was charged with being of unsound mind. He was remanded seven…

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Police Court. Wednesday, August 17Th. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. Gale.) Insulting Language

The Age · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 3

BRIDGET SHEEDY, an elderly woman, appeared to answer the information of Jessie Edith Sheedy, public school teacher at Tharwa, wherein she was charged with…

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Police Court. Wednesday, August) 17Th

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. Gale. INSULTING LANGUAGE. Bridget Sheedy, an elderly woman,…

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Small Debts Court

The Age · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 3

The cases set down for hearing in this Court had all been settled…

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Braidwood Police Court. THURSDAY. (Before J. McDonald and J. Kenny, Esqrs.) LUNACY

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 2

Edwin Bale was charged with being of unsound mind. Evidence was given that the accused imagined that he was Sir Edwin Bale. He told the people…

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Police Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 2

Yesterday, before Messrs. R. M. Huggins and John Kenny, Js.P. Edwin Bale, who had been remanded last week for medical observation on a charge of lunacy, appeared…

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The Tindera Vale Tragedy. A Sensational Letter. Verdict of Wilful Murder and Suicide

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 2

THE full particulars are to hand of the Tindera Vale tragedy, briefly reported in our last issue. The victims appear to have been William Albert,…

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Braidwood Police Court MONDAY. (Before J. Kenny and R. M. Higgins, Esqrs.) LUNACY

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 2

Edwin Bale (on remand) was charged with being of unsound mind. Dr. Llewellyn, Government Medical Officer, deposed that the accused is of mind and unfit…

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Relieving Police Magistrate

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 2

THE Government Gazette of Friday last notifies the appointment of Mr. John Walker, Fletcher as relieving police magistrate arid deputy licensing…

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Brutal Assault

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 September 1904 · page 2

A sensational story of assault and robbery was told to the officer in charge at Newtown Police Station at an early hour on Sunday morning by a married woman named Kate Forfar, who resides in…

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Theft of a Racehorse

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 2

A rather peculiar racing circumstance is agitating the minds of the police and sporting circles in Broken Hill. At the recent combined clubs’ meeting a horse…

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Police Court. Wednesday, September 21. BEFORE. Messrs. Relieving P. M. Fletcher and J. Gale, J.P. Stealing Rabbit-traps

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 2

Joseph Smith and John O'Rourke, lads of about 14 years, were charged with stealing in company some time in August last two rabbit traps, of…

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Police Court. Wednesday, 21St September. (Before Mr. Fletcher, relieving P.M., and Mr. John Gale, J.p.) Larceny of Rabbit Traps

The Age · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 2

John O'Rourke and Joseph Smith, two lads each 13 years of age, were charged with the theft of two rabbit traps, the property of Robert Thomson…

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