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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

253 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 13

Braidwood Police Court. Saturday, Dec. 28. (Before G. R. Williams, Esq.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 2

Charles Frederick Piggott, (40), was charged with being found drank in Braidwood on the 27th instant. He pleaded guilty and was imprisoned till the rising of the court…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before Messrs. Williams and Campbell.) Indecent Language

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 2

James Brown on the information of Constable Fagan was summoned for using indecent language on the evening of tho 26th ultimo. Defendant pleaded guilty and was fined 10s and 6s coasts, in…

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With Fratricide. an Artist Is Charged

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 3

Early yesterday morning (11th November) an artist named James Ansted, aged thirty-two, son of Mr. Windsor Ansted, a man of independent means, residing…

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Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 2

A QUARTERLY licensing court was held this morning before Dr. Blackall J.P. (chairman), and Mr. C. F. DeSalis,, J.P., when the following renewals were granted:—Alfred…

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Murder by a Lover. Girl's Mother Tells the Story

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

A coroner's jury at Slough returned a verdict of wilful murder and felo-do- se on 13th November against Charles Ernest Squire, aged twenty-three,…

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Police Court. Wednesday, January 15. (Before Mr. John Gale, J.p.) Alleged Larceny As a Bailee

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2

AUGUSTUS SMITH surreddered to his bail on remand from Goulburn, where he was arrested on warrant, to answer a charge of having, on or about 3rd December last, as bailee…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

An application was made to the Warden's Court on Thursday (Mr. Elliott presiding) by R. G. Hassall and J. E. Mackellar for six months' suspension of labor on the gold mine at Major's Creek…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

Patrick Allen was granted a license under the Second-hand Dealers Act. John Heazlett was granted a booth license for the Major's Creek races on the 27th instant. Mr. Fell…

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Braidwood Police Court. Thursday. (Before the P.M., and Messrs. J. H. Byrne, and A. Chapman.) Breach of the Liquor Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

Patrick McCaffrey was summoned for being unlawfully on the licensed premises of the Commercial Hotel, at 20 minutes past 1 a.m. on the 22nd December last. Defendant pleaded guilty to being…

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Murder by Perjury

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 4

The perjurer (under the Mosaic law) was to undergo the punishment which he sought to bring upon his innocent neighbor by his perjury. This is a much…

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London Police Courts. Amazing Forgery Story. Financial Agent Sent for Trial. Tale of a Request for Blank Cheques

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 5

An amazing story was told in evidence at the Mansion House on 24th September, when Guy Richard Preston, a financial agent, The Chatel, Deodar road…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before G. R. Williams, Esq., J. P.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 2

John Bryant alias Francis Riley, was charged with vagrancy. Constable Fagan deposed he arrested accused on Saturday last, and he then admitted serving a…

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Drowned Boy Mystery. Mother Charged with Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 4

A strange story, the outcome of which was that a woman named Louisa Tiffin was charged with the wilful murder of her six-year-old son william, was told at a Hackney…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1908. BEFORE Messrs. A. Elliott, P.M., and John Southwell, J.P. Breaches of the Local Government Act

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 2

ALFRED LAZARUS, inspector of nuisances for the Municipality of Queanbeyan, proceeded against a number of persons, on information supplied by…

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The Courts. Police Court. Wednesday, January 22, 1908. (Before A. Elliott, Esq., P.M., and John Southwell, Esq., J.P. Breaches of the Traffic Regulations

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 3

THE following defendants were fined the sum of 2s 6d and 6s costs of court for breaches of the Municipal traffic regulations, viz., failing to carry a light on their bicycle or…

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Braidwood Police Court. Wednesday. (Before G. R. Williams Esq.) DRUNKENNESS

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 2

Robert Fletcher pleaded guilty to being drunk in Wilson-street, in which condition he knocked three slabe out of Mr. Fell's stable with an axe. Fined 5s in default 48 hours in gaol. Allowed…

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Bungendore. Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 2

AT the police court on Tuesday, January 21, before the P.M. and Messrs. G. Gale and J. J. McJannett. Js.P., Harry Osborne was summoned by the Inspector of the…

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Scientist's Crime. Seized with Murder. Wife's Heroic Struggle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

From New York on 17th November the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:—Mr Lucian Marcus Underwood, an…

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The Venice Crime. a Charge of Murder. Countess Tarnowska

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

The trial (writes "Lloyd's Weekly" on 24th November) begins shortly, at Venice, of Countess Maria Nicolaevna Tarnowska, who, with two of her lovers…

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Stabbed to Death. Murder of Capetown Money-lender. a Cry in the Night

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 5

By the last mail from Capetown (reports "Lloyd's Weekly" of 24th November) comes the news of a mysterious and bloodthirsty tragedy…

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