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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

159 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 8

Braidwood Criminal Court. Thursday. (B fore Judge Fitzhardinge.) Breaking and Entering

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 October 1909 · page 2

Cecil John Hoggett 17, and Harold John Hugget 14, were charged for the that they did at Jembaicumbone on the 18th June last, break and enter the house of Robert Battye, and steal there[?]…

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Braidwood Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 November 1909 · page 2

At the usual monthly meeting of the Small district Court, on Monday, at which the P.M. presided, two [?] were down for hearing, joseph Billssued Harry [?]for £14 17s 6d, work and…

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The Police Magistracy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 November 1909 · page 2

MR. H. MALONE was welcomed at Taree on Friday of last week, where he has been appointed to succeed Mr. Gates, who is coming to Braidwood. The latter gentleman was at the same time…

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Araluen Police Court. SATURDAY. (Before Mr. T. U. Alley, J.p.) Riotous Behaviour

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 November 1909 · page 2

John McGowan, locked up by Constable Leeds, was charged with drunkenness and riotous behaviour in North Araluen on Thursday night. He pleaded guilty on both…

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Braidwood Police Court. Tuesday, November 16

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

The following gentlemen constituted the Bench :-Messrs A. Gates, P.M. W J Chapman, P Coffey, J Roberts, Jas McDonald, J H Byrne, W Dunshes, Js.P…

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Small Debts Court. Tuesday November 16. Wages Due

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

Francis Made (wife of Arthur James Meade) was summoned by Alexander Stuart for£18 16s due by agreement to work shares in the United Miners' claim a Major's Creek, the wages to be…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 November 1909 · page 2

At the Warden's Court on Wednesday the application of G. E. Poole for two dredging leases of 100 acres each on the Shoalhaven River, parish of Meaugora, was recommended for approval…

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Murder and Suicide Interruption at a Funeral

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 4

Sutton, near Nottingham, has been the scene of a double tragedy. On Tuesday, Feb. 5th, the dead bodies of a man and woman, with their throats cut, were…

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Boxing Contest. QUILL v. Peter Long—police Stop the Fight

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

ON Saturday night a fair crowd found their way to the Protestant Hall to witness the much talked of boxing contest, Harry Quill of Dalgety versus Peter Long of…

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Xi.-the Murder at Diamond Greek Station

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 6

"Harry, there's a strange man gone into the house. I don't like the look of him. Go in and see after him." So spoke Robert Hurst, a settler at…

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District News. Bungendore. Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 2

At Tuesday's court the following magistrates were present:—Mr. Gates, P.M., and Messrs. Powell Rutledge, Leahy, Sparrow and McJannett, J's.P…

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Drowned Boy Mystery. Mother Charged with Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 November 1909 · page 3

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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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before A. Gates, Esq., P.m.) Charge of Larceny

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 December 1909 · page 2

John Galbraith was charged on the information of Constable Ballantyne with having a pick handle in his possession reasonably suspected of being stolen…

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Murder Will Out. Confession After Eleven Years

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 December 1909 · page 4

Emile Rossberg, now undergoing a sentence of 12 years' penal servitude for burglary at Siegburg, has confessed to a crime which horrified Berlin some…

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Small Debts Court. Monday. (Before A. Gates Esq., P.m.) Barlow v. PRINGLE

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 December 1909 · page 2

Alfred Pringle was summoned by Alfred Barlow, for the recovery of £26 for board and lodging. Mr. Gee appeared for plaintiff, Mr. Fell for defendant, who pleaded not…

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District News. Bungendore. Police Court. Tuesday, 7Th December. (Before Mr. J. J. McJannett, J.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 2

LEDUCE BETTINI, on remand, appeared in custody on a charge of stealing one razor, one pair spectacles two handkerchiefs, one knife, and two handkerchiefs, one knife, and two packets of tobacco, to the…

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Horse Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 2

At the Geoulburn polio court on Wednesday John Henry King, alias Michael Enright, alias John Jamieson, was charged by warrant that [?]…

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The Camberley Murder. a Coroner's Methods. Journalists Excluded. Lecture to the Press

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 4

Inquiry was resumed on June 28th, writes the London "Daily news," into the circumstances of the death of Miss Mary Ann Hogg, found murdered at…

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Charged by a Tiger

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 3

In sport, as in most of the interests of mankind, it is the unexpected thing, says a writer in the "Field" that supplies the salt ol life, and it…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, December 20. (Before [?] Gates, E[?] P.m.) Keeping Unregistered Dogs

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 2

William [?] Thomas Buls, John Joseph W[?] and James [?] were summoned, on [?] with not having registered their dogs at Major's Creek before…

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