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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

334 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 13 of 17

Police Court. Wednesday September 12. Before Mr. G. R. Williams, J.P. DRUNK

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 2

John Walter Munro, for being drunk on the previous flight, was fined 5/, or 24 hours…

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Braidwood Police Court. SATURDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNK. [?]c

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 2

Charles Dargue (in custody) was charged with being drunk on the previous night, when he was arrested by Constacle McMullen. Fined 2s 6d or 24 hours' gaol. He was also charged with ass[?]ting…

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Novel in Real Life. Confession of Murder

The Age · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 3

The confession of George Breeze, now in custody on a charge of murdering Margaret Chisholm, the wife of a Seaham Harbor collier, is an extraordinary…

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Revision Court.—shire Rolls

The Age · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 2

THE Rolls of Electors for the Shire of Yarralumla were revised by the Police, Magistrate, Mr. Alfred Elliott, who was appointed the Revision Court, on…

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Shire Revision Court. Thursday 27Th Sept. 1906

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 2

AT the Court House, on the above date, the Police Magistrate, Mr. Alfred Elliott, sat as a Court of Revision of the rolls of electors for…

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Shire Revision Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

ON Thursday last Mr. Alfred Elliott, Police Magistrate of Braidwood, sat at the Court House as a Revision Court, to deal with the lists of…

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Police Court. Monday, October 1. Before Messrs A. Elliott, P. M., and J.H. Byrne, J.P.

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

J. J. Feehan, Jembaicumbene, was charged with carrying [?]rearms on Sunday, 23rd nit., without lawful execs’. Defendant pleaded carrying firearms…

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Licensing Court. Before Mrs. A. Elliott P.M., and J. H. Byrne, J.P.

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

Police v. Stephen Brown, for being on licensed premises during prohibited hours. This case was postponed from last court. The police reported that…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, October 1. Before Messrs. A. Elliott, P.M., and J. H. Byrne, J.P.

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

Mrs. Jacobs v. Sam Edwards.—Claim For £1 7s 6d. Order for amount, with 5s costs, payable in weekly instalments of 4s…

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Braidwood Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 2

[?] before the P.M., and [?] FIREARMS [?] Feehan, on the [?] with carrying a [?]…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. MONDAY. (Before the P.M. and Mr. Byrne.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 2

Patrick Coffey applied for the renewal of the license of the Royal Hotel, Braidwood, which was granted. Therental value of the premises was fixed at £200, plus £40 10s license fee and…

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Small Debts Court. MONDAY. (Before the P.M. and Mr. Byrne.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 2

Mrs. Jacoba v. S. Edwards.-Claim £1 7s 6d, Order for amount, with 5s costs, payable in weekly instalments of 4s. Mrs. Stutchbury v. Maud Harvey.-Claim £1…

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Special Licensing Court. MONDAY. (Before the P.M. and Mr. Byrne.) Breaches of the Liquer Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 2

S'ephen Brown was charged with being found on the licensed premises of the Courthouse Hotel on Sunday 29th July at a time when [?] There was no appearance of defendant, who, it was…

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Gaol for Faith-curist.” a Father Sentenced

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 4

James Cook a discipie of the “peculiar People,” was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of the manslaughter of his two children Dorothy Mary and…

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Rockingham Chapter Xli.i Stealing a Kiss

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 8

Elliston was not particularly put out by this letter, but he had been too long on the turf not to know, that, when meditating such a coup as he did, no…

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Gaol for "Faith-curist." a Father Sentenced

The Age · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 3

James Cook, a disciple of the "Peculiar People," was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of the manslaughter of his two children, Dorothy Mary and…

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Adventurer's History. Told in a Police Court

The Age · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 4

"Captain" Robert Rollo le Clercq Rivett-Carnac, 27, came up to receive sentence at the Newington Sessions on Wednesday, July 25th, having been…

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Rockingham. Chapter Xlii. Stealing a Kiss

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 8

Hap what may, there’s never lack of provender for either man or J horse about a racing establishment, and Elliston. who was rather given to the pleasures…

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Boy Brigands. Rob and Murder

The Age · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 4

Two boys (wrote the Rome correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on 23rd July) in a village near Naples, Giovanni Gianmbartolmeo,…

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The Police Paddock

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 2

We find there is very wide spread indignation at the off-hand manner in which the Council dealt with the letter of Colonel Ryrie, read at the last…

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