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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

338 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 17

Police Court. Saturday, July 13. (Before Mr. A Elliott, P.m.) Alleged Gold Stealing

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1907 · page 2

William Brennan, remanded from Wednesday on bail, appeared before the Court, charged with stealing a quantity of gold from a gold claim at Nettleton…

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Braidwood Police Court. Saturday, July 13. (Before Mr. A. Elliott, P.m.) Alleged Gold Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 2

William Brennan, remanded from Wednesday, on bail, appeared before the Court charged with stealing a quantity of gold from a gold claim at Nettleton Creek, Mongarlowe, the property of…

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Charged With Loitering on his own Premises

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 6

At the North Sydney Police Court, James S[?] carrying on business a 111 Walker-street North Sydney, was charged on Thursday with lo[?]tering. He pleaded not guilty,…

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Chapter Iv. What They Find in the Room in Which the Murder Was Committed

The Age · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 3

At the time that the arrest of the Count de Marolles was taking place, Mr. Joseph Peters was absent from London, being employed upon some…

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Over the Garden Wall. Wisdom From a Magistrate

The Age · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 4

A lady complained to Mr Fordham, at the North London Police Court on the 8th of May, that some young men from a neighboring house came…

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The Crumpe Murder. Further Details. "A Lost Inheritance."

The Age · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 5

A dramatic tale was told by the police at the Portsmouth Town Hall yesterday (23rd May), when John Langford Crumpe, a feeble old man of aristocratic…

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Blunder in Identity. Seven Against Ten. Police Prove Accused Innocent

The Age · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 4

A remarkable instance of mistaken identity was revealed at Clerkenwell Sessions yesterday, April 26th. For the prosecution seven youths and…

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

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 26 July 1907 · page 5

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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A Professional Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 1

For four days the world has read with horror the confessions in open court of a man who on his own showing is the greatest professional assassin on record…

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Police Court. Monday, July 29. (Before Messrs. A. Elliott, P.M., J. H. Byrne, and R. M. Higgins, J's.P .Obscene Language

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 30 July 1907 · page 2

Edward Charles Locksley pleaded guilty to uttering obscene language at Major‘s Creek, and was fined 20s and 6s costs…

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Trial of Haywood. Governor's Murderer in Court. Sensational Evidence. Charges Against the Miners' Secretary. Planning the Crimes

The Age · Tuesday 30 July 1907 · page 4

To-day Harry Orchard, the informer in the Idaho mining murder trial, took the witness-stand at Boise City, and the case against William D. Haywood, of…

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Licensing Court. Monday, July 29 .(Before Messrs. A. Elliott, P.M., J, H. Byrne, and R M. Higgins, J’s.P.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 30 July 1907 · page 2

The Licensing inspector submitted quarterly reports regarding local hotels, which were deemed satisfactory. LIQUOR ACT…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before the same Magistrates.) Alleged Arson

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1907 · page 2

Francis Taylor, in custody, was charged with having maliciously set fire to a dwelling house at Naranghi on the 22nd instant, well knowing that one Edward Woolf was in the house at the time…

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Braidwood Licensing Court. Monday. (Before Messrs Elliott, P.M., Byrne, and Higgins.) Breach of the Licensing Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1907 · page 2

R. Keyte, junr., was summoned on the information of Constable Mundy for being on the premises of the Elrington Hotel, Major's Creek, at an unlicensed hour on Saturday, July 13, viz., at…

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Police Court. Thursday, August 1.(Before the P.M.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 August 1907 · page 7

ATTEMPTING TO DISSUADE A. WITNESS FROM GIVING EVIDENCE. James Henry Taylor, in custody, was charged by Constable Marsh with the…

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The Quirindi Murder

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

Toffet, the Quirindi murderer, had not been captured up to last night. .Large bodies of police are scouring the district pursuit of the murderer…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 2

Henry Taylor, of Tantulean, was brought up on Thursday for that he did endeavour to persuade James Kelly, junr., from giving evidence against Francis David Taylor in respect of a charge against…

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FRIDAY. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Alleged Arson

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 2

Francis D. Taylor, in remand, and in custody, was again brought up on the charge of having on the 22nd July maliciously set fire to the dwelling house of Edward Wolf, at Naranghi, well knowing…

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Litigation and Revenge. Young Woman Sentenced

The Age · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 4

Another acid-throwing case was heard at the New Bailey yesterday, when an attractive-looking young woman named Lilian Sarah Woodcock,…

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Murder at Woy Woy

The Age · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 7

ON Friday night, Captain Fox, a frequent visitor at Woy Woy, was shot in a boarding-house at that place, by, it is alleged, the boarding-house keeper,…

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