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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

280 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 14

Local & General. Police Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

At the Police Court on Monday, before the P.M. and Mr. J. H. Byrne, J.P., George Wing, a Chinaman, was charged, on the information of Constable…

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Goulburn Circuit Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

AT the Circuit Court opened at Goulburn yesterday before his honor Mr Justice Pring (Mr. W. Tighe Crown-Prosecutor), the following…

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The Gingarrie Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 April 1905 · page 2

The investigations by the police in connection with the Gingerrie murder reveal the most horrible butchery in its perpetration. In the bag in which the body was found very little of the scalp…

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Goulburn Circuit Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

AT this Court, which opened on Monday, Roy Wood pleaded guilty to escaping from the Goulburn gaol, also to breaking, entering, and…

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Goulburn Licensing Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

AT the Goulburn Licensing Court, George Siebert was granted a renewal of his colonial wine license for premises in Auburn street,…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Queanbeyan Cases

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

THE above court opened on Monday with a heavy cause list, the result of the two local cases, in which, naturally, great interest was centred…

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Goulburn Circuit Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 2

At the Goulburn Circuit Court on Tuesday Sarah Selby, a married woman, was charged with killing two of her children with an axe, while camped with her husband in a lent at. Bangaro. Accused is of…

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Goulburn Circuit Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 25 April 1905 · page 2

AT the above Court, William Luke Weekes and George Samuel Henry Weekes pleaded guilty to having on 6th March, at Clear Hills, stolen two…

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Local & General. Police Changes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 2

First-class Constable Roberts has been transferred from Yalgogrin to Braidwood and Constable Done from Braidwood to Burrowa…

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Suing a Police Magistrate

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 2

John L.King, D.S.M., was sued in the Supreme Court for £500 damages by Thos. E. Brown for having made an order against him for the payment of 6s a week for order against him of his child…

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Next Thing to Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 2

William Henry Roberts, who pleaded guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions to procuding a drug for an unlawful purpose was, on Thursday, bought up for sentence before Judge Docker…

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Local News. [?]gendore Police Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

AT the Police Court on Wednesday, 26th, before Messrs Elliott (P.M.), McJannett, and Welch (Js.P.), a youth, 14 years of age, appeared…

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District Court

The Age · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

THE first sittings of the Queanbeyan District Court since the abolition of the Quarter Sessions at Queanbeyan, were held before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge this morning…

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Warden’s Court. (Before the Warden)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

James Green, for self and party, applied for suspension of labor conditions for three months on the lately discovered quartz reef, situate about two…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, May 1. (Before the P. M.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

Joseph Gyde v. T. Gifiord.—Claim for £1 0s 6d. Verdict for amount, with12s costs. Gee Sang v. Rhody Sheehy.—Claim…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 2

A Warden's Court was held at the Courthouse, Braidwood, on Monday, before Mr. Warden Elliott, where the application adjourned from Thursday last for suspension of labor on the new reef lately…

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Braidwood Small Debts Court. MONDAY. (Before Mr. Elliott, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 2

GEE SANG v. RHODIE SHEEHY.—To recover £2 16s 6d, goods sold. Verdict for £29s by consent with 15s costs. Mr. Moriarty for plaintiff. Joseph GYDE V. THOMAS GIFFORD.—Claim for…

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[?]Leverest Burglar. “American Frank” Sentenced

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 5

George Baldwin, [?] who was sentenced to [?] months hard labor at the Clerkenwell Sessions on 23rd, February, was stated by the police to be the cleverest…

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District Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 3

BEFORE Judge Fitzhardinge, on Tuesday last, Hayes and Russell sued R. W. Horton for £28/2/4, and secured a verdict for full amount and…

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Vision of Murder. Dreamer’s Evidence

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 5

According to the Winnipeg correspondent of the London “Daily Mail,” of 9th March, the trial of Charles King, who was charged with the murder of his…

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