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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

185 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 10

Bungendore. Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 2

AT the court on Tuesday before the Police Magistrate, Herbert Heath pleaded guilty to using indecent language and was fined 10/- and 6/- costs. For being drunk and…

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Police Court. Wednesday, June 29

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 3

Before Mr. Gates, P.M. William Reid appeared to answer two charges of maliciously destroying fences the property of Thomas…

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Shire Appeal Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 2

The Police Magistrate sat alone to hear and determine the several appeals against rates which had been filed, with the following results;—Thomas Gallagher, Burbong,…

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Small Debts Court. Before Mr. Gates, P.M.

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 3

Ill the above, court on Wednesday last, Peter Plummer sued the Leader Newspaper Proprietary to recover 9156 alleged to be due for rent…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday. (Before the Police Magistrate.) DRUNKENNESS

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 2

Patrick O'Heir, junr., arrested by Constable Scott, for drunkenness and riotua conduct in Wallace street on Saturday night last, was fined 5s…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 2

Application was made by Senior Constable Marsh to have certain abandoned mining tenements at Major's Creek under the Mining on Private Lands Act declared…

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Electoral Revision Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 2

A Court for revising the Electoral Lists of the Queanbeyan Electorate was hld at the Braidwood Police Court on Monday last, Mr. Gates, P.M. presiding. Mr. Williams, the Registrar produced…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 2

The case against Volney Godber, charged at the Goulburn sessions on Tuesday with stealing at Nadgingomar on or about 22nd January nine sheep, the property of William…

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Murder of Lunatics

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 6

A man named Thabius, an attendant at Sainte Elie Asylum, Paris, has been sentenced to seven years' solitary confinement for strangling three mad patients in his…

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The Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 2

CONDSTABLE McMULLEN, who has been a considerable time stationed in Braidwood, during a portion of his time acting as gaoler, has received orders from the Department apprising him that he is to…

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Gaol for "Faith-curist." a Father Sentenced

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 3

James Cook, a disciple of the "Peculiar People," was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of the manslaughter of his two children, Dorothy Mary and…

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Boy Brigands. Rob and Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 4

Two boys (wrote the Rome correspondent of the London" Daily Mail" on 23rd July), in a village near Naples, Giovanni Giambartolmeo,…

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The Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 2

THE name of the successor to Constable McMullen, acting gaoler, who is to be removed to Sydney, has not seen made known yet. Constable Hazelwood has returned to duty and brought back with him a…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, July 18. (Before A. Gates, Esq., P.m.) Drunk and Obscene Language

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 2

Michael Patrick Torpy failed to put in an appearance when his name was called out on the above charges, although his father, Michael Torpy, appeared on his behalf. It…

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Sentenced to Death. a Human Porcupine. Ferocious Apache Who Encased Himself in Curious Armor

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 4

In the Assize Court of the Seine Jean Liabeut, the Apache who gained notoriety as the "human porcupine," was sentenced to…

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The Woolwich Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 2

THE case in which John Heath was charged with having malicously wounded Ralph Mottershead at Woolwich on June 14, with intent to inflict…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 July 1910 · page 2

Clarence Herbert O'Farrell, on remind, was charged at the Goulborn Police Court on Saturday with stealing at Tarago on 20th July one brown horse, the property of John…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Wednesday, 27th JULY. Before Mr. A. Gates, P.M.

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 2

Before commencing the business of the court, Mr. Gates welcomed Sergeant Woods to Queanbeyan on behalf of the Bench and said he felt…

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Braidwood Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 2

At the Police Court on Monday last, before Messrs G. R. Williams and F. M. Cooper., Js.P., Edward Taylor was fined 2s 6d for being drunk and George Newman senr., was fined 2s 6d and…

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THE Unspoken Word. By Morice Gerard, Author of "The Secret Castle Court," "For England," " Doctor Manlon," "The Crowning of Esther," " John Montcalm," &c. Published by Special Arrangement. Chapter XXIV—(Continued). [All Rights Reserved.]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 3

The train had pulled up outside Cannon-street Station. Keeping a vigilant eye on the line, he at the same time apologised once more…

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