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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

338 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 17

Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 2

Before Mr. G. R. Williams, J.P., yesterday, A. McDonald claimed £10 5s for wages, from J. T. Boole. Defendant paid £4 11s 3d into court. Mr. Gee appeared…

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Bomb in a Police Station

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 2

Information from Wattle Flat, 20 miles from Bathurst states that an attempt was made to blow up the police station there early on Saturday morning…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, J.P.) A. N. McDoNALD V. J. T. POOLE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 2

This was a claim for £10, work and labor as engine driver on defendant's mine at Boro. Mr. Gee for plaintiff, Mr. Fell for defendant, who paid £4 11s 3d into court in full satisfaction of the…

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Swindling Morgan. a Count Charged

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 3

From Rome, on 10th April the correspondent of the London “Daily Mail” wrote:— The charges against Count Bosdart, of…

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The Police of the Coast

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 1

Now that thre is little or no smuggling, there is an impression that coastguards have very easy lives. During the summer months, when the…

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Stricken Dumb in Court

The Age · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 6

WITHOUT warning, Ernest C. Gregory, a young lawyer, while in the Norfolk town court recently to make an appeal for a client (says the New York…

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Police Court. Monday, July 1. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, J.p.) Riotous Behaviour

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 2

Frank Feeney for whom Mr. Gee appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of riotous behaviour in the Royal Hotel on Saturday night, June 22…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

Frank Feeney, on the information of Constable Fagan, was charged with riotous conduct in threatening to fight a man in the Royal Hotel, on Saturday week. Mr. Gee appeared for defendant, who…

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Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

T. Daft obtained a verdict against E. Sullivan for £3 17s 2[?] and costs. Mr. Gee for plaintiff. Seme v. John Carney, to recover £4 6s. Adjourned to next court…

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Attempted Murder

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 2

Mervyn Bradshaw, charged with attempting to murder Edward Bissett, jumped overboard from a steamer at Auckland while in custody, and was…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, July 8. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 2

John Thompson was summoned by Vera Kathleen Day for having neglected to support his illegitimate child, of which she is the mother. The case was one for the Children's Court. Defendant…

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Brutal Murder in Sydney

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 2

A terrible crime was perpetrated at Newtown on Sunday night, when Mrs. Mary Macnamara was brutally murdered in her bed. Deceased was 73 years of age, and was the widow of the late…

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A Great Trial. Murder of a Governor. Man's Terrible Story

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 3

By cable we have learnt some of the shocking statements made during the course of the trial of certain persons who are accused of complicity in…

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The Newtown Murder

The Age · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 5

FOLLOWING closely on the arrest of the man Nicholas Baxter on Monday for the murder of Mrs. Macnamara at Newtown on Sunday night, comes the…

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Anarchists Fool the Police Congress Under the Stars

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 4

On 3rd April the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” wrote from Berlin:— While squads of police and detectives were scouring the countryside high and…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 2

William Brennan was charged with scaling gold from the claim of Edward Neilsen at Mongarlowe, and also with forcibly taking possession of the claim with firearms…

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Scene in a Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 6

Ragged urchin is brought in crying for his father. "Where is your father?" asked the magistrate…

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Newtown Murder. Arrested Man Confesses

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 1

Following closely on the arrest of the man Nicholas Baxter on Monday for the murder of Mrs. Macnamara at Newtown on Sunday night comes the confession of the accused…

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The Melbourne Murder. a Remarkable Story. Melbourne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 2

An extraordinary story has been given to the Colac police by P. E. Stokie, a dairyman, of Neering Stokie states that on reading of the diamond murder he remembered an incident which took…

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A Red Page in History. Murder of the Princesse De Lamballe

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 4

Of all the awful events in the French Revolution, there is hardly one that strikes us with greater horror than the massacre of the…

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