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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

199 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 10

The Police Magistrate

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

MR. GATES P.M., who was a member of the licensing reduction court for the Allowrie electorate, is now sitting on the reduction court at Goulburn…

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Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

At the Braidwood Police Court on Wednesday morning, before Mr. Kemp, J.P., Reginald Hobby pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct and using indecent language. He…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

MR. G. R. WILLIAMS Mining warden, whose head quarters are in Goulborn, visited Braidwood again on Wednesday morning last and held an inquiry into a number of mining tenements in the parish…

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What the Police Found. Sequel to Woman's Death. £1490 Hoarded Away

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

Catherine Shields, 50, died suddenly at Sydney Hospital on Monday night. When searching her room at Riley-street, Woolloomooloo, on Wednesday, the police found…

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Women Who Drink Startling Results of Police Inquiry. Child Tipplers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 4

A Home Office return issued recently will come as a shock to many social reformers, not excluding the average temperance advocate. It gives the results of…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, May 8. (Before Messrs Jas McDonald and P. Coffey, Js.P.) Assault and Language

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 May 1911 · page 2

Alfred Gourley was summoned by James Brown for assault and using indecent language. Mr. Gee appeared for complainant, and…

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Police Court. Wednesday, May 10Th (Before Mr.H. Holcombe, P.M.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 2

John Henry Fitzgibbon was, on the information of Albert John S[?]uddy, proceeded against on a charge of using insulting words in a public…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY, 10th MAY, 1911. Before Mr. Harcourt Holcombe, P.M. Insulting Language

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 2

Albert John Studdy v. John Fitzgibbon, Mr. Morgan for plaintiff. Mr. Woodward for defendant. Defendant was charged with using…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, May 12, 1911. Welcoming the Police Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 2

PREVIOUS to the commencement of the court proceedings on Wednesday, Dr. Richardson, J.P., on behalf of the local bench of magistrates, tendered a cordial welcome to…

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Goulburn Local Option Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 2

THE decision of the Court is that the number of licenses to be reduced be as follows:— Publicans' licenses, 4 ; colonial wine license, I; registration of club, [?]…

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Charge of Stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 2

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday John Joseph Donnelly was charged that he did on or about 12th October, 1910, steal one Singer sewing machine…

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Drowned Babies the Mother in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 3

There was a painful scene in the Southwark Police Court on September 1st, when Maria Jane Martin again appeared on a charge of drowning her three…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, May 15. (Before Messrs. Jas. McDonald and P. Coffey, Js. P.) Assault and Language

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

Alfred Gourlay was summoned by James Brown for unlawfully assaulting him on the 28th April last at Braidwood. The same defendant was also charged…

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The Police Magistracy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

As having some bearing probably upon the present vacancy in the office of P.M., of Braidwood, which it is to be hoped will be only temporary, we notices that Mr. H. HOlcombe, P.M., of Cooms, has been…

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Charge of Stealing

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 2

At the Goulburn Police Court on Monday John Joseph Donnelly was charged that he did, on or about 12th October, 1910, steal one Singer sewing machine…

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Goulburn Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 2

John Joseph Donnelly was charged at the Goulburn police court on Monday that he did, on or about 12th October, 1910, steal one Singer sewing machine of the value of…

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Sevenfold Murder. Wealthy Russian's Villa Entered

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 6

BERLIN, Monday.—A sevenfold murder is reported from the Russian village of Soroki, on the River Dniester[?]n the province of Bessarabia…

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The Beggar's Children. Organ-grinder Argues with a Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 3

An Itinerant organ-grinder was charged at the Lambeth Police Court, on 4th November, with placing himself and his two little children in a public…

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Death in Police Cell. Police Charged with Violence. Royal Commission Dismisses Charges

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 2

With regard to the death of Walter Alexander Bosworth in a police cell at Bathurst, the report of the Royal Commission on the charges against Sergeant Sheehy and…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 2

THERE wore only a few cases to deal with on last Tuesday, one offender was fined £2 and costs for language. whilst another young fellow was mulcted in a penalty, of 5/- and…

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