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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

185 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 10

The Court Curtsey

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 August 1910 · page 3

The correct way to pay respect to the throne demonstrated by a pupil of Steadman's dancing school…

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Goulburn Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 2

Edward Boreham was proceeded against by tin police on Thursday on a charge of m[?]ously damaging at Tarago on 3rd August a set of buggy horness, valued at L5, the property of Thomas…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, August 15. (Before Mr. A. Gates, P.m.) Indecent Language

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 2

John Doyle was charged, on the information of Michael John O'Connell, with having used indecent language to him in his shop in Braidwood…

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Warden's Court. Monday August 15. (Before Mr. A. Gates, Warden)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 2

Cleaver and party applied for suspension of labor for six months on GL 18, parish of Elrington, on the ground of excess water in the mine, and to allow time to make…

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Police Court Case

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 2

EDWARD BOREHAM was proceeded against by the police at the Goulburn police court on Thursday on a charge of maliciously damaging at Tarago, on 3rd…

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Starving a Baby. Parents Sentenced

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 1

Thomas Butler and Margaret Butler, who were remanded for sentence at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions on Tuesday on a charge of…

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Local News. The Assault on Mr. E. Young

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 2

THE brutal assault upon Mr. Ernest Young, for which the assailant only received the very light punishment of a month in gaol, his resulted in very serious consequences. Mr. Young after the assault…

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Notorious Pickpocket. Has Served Thirty-six Years in Gaol

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 August 1910 · page 6

Her age was said to be midway between 70 and 80 years her name Sarah Clifford and she was described on the police charge sheet at the Central Court on Tuesday…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, August 22. (Before Messrs. Gates, P.M., and Byrne, J.p.) Assault

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 2

Albert Bale was charged with unlawfully assaulting Thomas Bale, his brother, on the 19th instant. Defendant pleaded guilty. The complainant stated that while he was at…

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Murder by a Madman. Nicholas' New Zealand Career. Auckland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 August 1910 · page 6

James Hamilton Nicholas, who murdered his father, Major Nicholas, at Cornwall (Eng.) ii few days ago, was formerly a settler in the Gisborne district, where he took up…

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Wednesday, 25th, AUGUST. Before A. Gates P.M.

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 2

Donald, Maclean Robertson was charged by Alfred Lazarus, inspector of Nuisances for the Municipality of Queanbeyan, with depasturing a…

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Police Court. Wednesday, August 24, 1910. (Before Mr. A. Gates, P.m.) Drunk

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 2

R. COPELAND, a stranger, pleaded guilty to being drunk and was fined 2/6 or the rising of the court. TRESPASSING…

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While in Gaol

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 3

The expert rogues who make spurious coins always run a great risk of detection, no matter how recently their operations are conducted…

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The Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 August 1910 · page 2

CONSTABLE McMullen, who was advised some time since of his contemplated removal to Sydney, has been informed that the date fixed for his leaving Braidwood will be on the 6th proximo. Another…

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Before the Police Court. London, Aug. 29

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 September 1910 · page 6

Crippen and Le Neve appeared before Bow-street Police Court this morning. Inspector Dew stated that a card found among Crippen'e belongings bore the…

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Kensington Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 September 1910 · page 2

The Coroner's inquest on the death of Ivy Alice O'Brien, whose body was found buried in sand on the ocean bench at Kensington, was resumed on Wednesday at the Coroner's…

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Lady and Her Child Court of Appeal Story

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 3

The Court of Appeal on Saturday, 13th March, had before it an appeal by a lady named Mrs Pinckney from an order of the Divisional Court affirming an order of the…

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A Mean Theft

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 September 1910 · page 6

Thomas Moriarty, a carter, residing at Abercrombie-street, Redfern, became acquainted with a man named Edward Edwards at a…

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The Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 September 1910 · page 2

CONSTABLE McMullan with his wife and family left Braidwood yesterday afternoon for Sydney to do duty in the city. In tendering his resignation as Inspector of Weights and measures to the Bench at…

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Assault by a Priest

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 1

At the Forster, police cour[?] on the 25th ultimo a case was heard before Mr. H. Maloue, P.M., and Mr. Thomas Myles,…

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