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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

253 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 13

Stock Inspector Found Guilty of Sheep Stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 October 1908 · page 3

AT the Bathurst, Circuit Court on Thursday before Mr. Justice Simpson Charles B. King, stock inspector at Carcoar was charged with stealing 49…

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Women in Gaol. Countess Russell on Their Clothes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 4

The Countess Russell writes to the "Daily News" of August 1. Your paper has always been open to anyone anxious to bring wrong-doing…

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Alleged Murder in Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 7
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ABOUT 4.15 on Monday afternoon an elderly man named George Salmon, residing at Gundowringa near Pejar, farmer, was found lying in a helpless condition in Sloane-street. He…

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Woman Dies by Gas. Police Puzzled. Supposed Broken Jet

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 6

The circumsances surrounding the death of Mrs Marion Mathews, who was found unconscious in her room at 276 Huron street yesterday morning, are…

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Fatal Assault in Goulburn

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 2

George Salmon, who died in the hospital on Monday evening, as the result of an attack upon him, came into Goulburn to witness the Eight-hour demonstration. He was leaving Gleeson's hotel in…

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Timid "Ghost" Midnight Revels. Checked by Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 4

The ancient abbey village of Upholland, Lancashire, has been startled by a mysterious "ghostly" visitant that possesses the strength of a…

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On the Trail. a Police Bloodhound. Baffled by a Crowd

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 4

The search (writes the "Daily Mail" of August 7) for the murderer of the little girl Madge Kirby, whose body was found in a sack in the cellar of an…

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Women in Gaol. Countess Russell on Their Clothes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 5

The Countess Russell writes to the "Daily News" of August 1. Your paper has always been open:—to anyone anxious to bring wrong-doing…

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Short Story. [Published by Special Arrangement.] the Burglary at Azalea Villa. [Copyright.] Chapter I.

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 1

It was when the Hon. Augustus Champnell was recovering from a slight touch of influenza that the servant came to announce that Lord…

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Chapter Xxii. Chief Magistrate and Convict

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 3

The short November day was just beginning to draw in as the way-far who had so frankly confessed to the police official his own misdoings…

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Short Story. [Published by Special Arrangement.] the Burglary at Azalea Villa. [Copyright] (Continued.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 1

"I suppose your house is called after the aza[?]s which I see you have in your garden. What fine ones they are."…

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Murder, Most Foul

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 5

The further particulars which have been published of the murder of Nellie Daffy at Carpentaria in which Mrs. Wilson, the wife of the owner of the station, is charged with…

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The Industrial Troubles. Police Sent to Broken Hill

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 2

The news that 50 police had left Sydney for Broken Hill in view of the disturbed industrial position caused consteruation at Broken Hill. It was the occasion of a stormburst in the Legislative…

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Arab Girls Charged. Picturesque Prisoners

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 4

A sensation was created at Bow street on Saturday by the appearance of two Arabian girls in the dock on the charge of shoplifting…

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The Rock Choppers. Further Cases in Industrial Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 5

In the Industrial Court on Friday morning, Judge Heydon presiding, Detective Bradney, on behalf of the Attorney-General, proceeded against a number of persons under…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, November 16

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 2

The following magistrates occupied seats on the Bench, viz, Messrs. F. G. Adrian (P.M.), F. M. W. Cooper, R. M. Higgins, W. J. Champman, Jas. McDonald, R. Kennedy, and P. Coffey…

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Comic Opera Gaol Mutiny. French Prison Cobblers Strike for More Pay

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 November 1908 · page 4

Though meant in real darnest there was a genuine comic opera clement in a strike of prisoners at Riom Gaol, accounts of which appeared in…

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Man Charged with Electricity

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 2

The world is amazed when it stops to consider how things have been revolutionised by electricity. We have not only the telegraph and the telephone,…

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A Glimpse of Old London. High Court of Liberty

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 4

There is an interesting bit of Old London to be seen in Wellclose-square, E. (writes the "Globe" of August 19), the thoroughfare which…

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