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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

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

Criek to appear before the Full. Court

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

The Chief Justice in 'the Full Court en Thursday said : "In view of the report of the Royal Commission, sitting to inquire into the…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY. (Before Messrs. G. R. Williams and D. M> Campbell, Js.P.) Straying Stock

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

Thomas Lupton was summoned by the Inspector of Nu[?]eances (H. C. Parnell) for allowing one cow to stray in the streets, and was fined 2s 6d, with 6s costs…

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Local News. Police Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

AT the local police court on Wednesday last, before Mr. F. Korff, J.P , a hawker's license was granted to Milan Elias…

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London Police Courts. a Day's Work

The Age · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 4

The following resume of a day's work in the London Police Courts is from the "Daily Mail" of 1st October:—…

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Murder of a Bride. Girl-nurse Killed by Lunatic

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 3

Another of the tragedies of insanity has occurred at the Mattawan Asylum, where Mrs Lizzie Holiday, a gipsy woman and a criminal patient, on 28th…

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Police V. Public. Detectives’s Unfounded Suspicions

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 5

Mr. Paul Taylor, the Ma[?]lebone magistrate, yesterday (1st October) spoke with some -warmth in discharging. a man named J. G. Ficeman,…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Thursday. Crick Before the Full Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

Mr. Crick appeared, by Counsel, today before the Full Court to show cause why he should not be struck off the roll of solicitors. An application was made…

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Licensing Court. THURSDAY. (Before A. Elliott, Esq., Licensing Magistrate.) Booth License

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 2

W. D. Hogan wu granted a booth license at Mongarlowe Races on New Year's Day. RENEWAL OF BILLIARD LICENSES. The following renewals were granted:-W. T…

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Local & General, Police Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 2

Yesterday, before the Police Magistrate, Charles Dargue, for being-drunk, in Wallace-street on Xmas Day was fined 2/6, and for resisting the police was…

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Planned His Own Murder. an Indian Police Inspector

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 6

From Lucknow on 14th October the correspondent of the London “Express” wrote:— A murder which reads like a page from…

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Trunk Mystery. Child Murder in America

The Age · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 3

The New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph wrote on 4th October:— Another trunk mystery, this time at…

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Tragedy at a Dance. Murder Escapes and Shoots

The Age · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 6

During a quarrel over a woman at a dance at Martin, Kentucky, last year (reported the New York correspondent of the "Express" on 29th…

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Murder of a Bride. Girl-nurse Killed by Lunatic

The Age · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 5

Another of the tragedies of insanity has occurred at the Mattawan Asylum, where Mrs Lizzie Halliday, a gipsy woman and a criminal patient, on 28th…

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Court in a Cemetery. Bodies Exhumed and Photographed

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 5

The remarkable spectacle of a Court, of Inquiry sitting and taking evidence in a graveyard, among the tombstones, was witnessed on Wednesday afternoon…

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A Police-constable's Curious Experience

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 4

'A' story is told of a certain thief, whose chief line was the stealing of lead from the roofs of houses. One day he had planted his ladder…

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