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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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

The Courts. Wednesday, June 14Th. Police. (Before Mr. H. Holcombe, P.M.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 June 1911 · page 2

A FIRST offender pleaded guilty to riding in a furious manner in Lowe Street and was fined 10/. Frederick Aldridge was charged with…

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Licensing Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 2

A SPECIAL Licencing Court will be held in Braidwood on the 23rd instant, and the Quarterly Court will be held on the 6th July next…

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With the North-west Mounted Police. Hunting Horse Stealers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 4

Apart from the stealing of horses that have been sent out on the ranges, and "lifted" thence by night, or that have been actually taken out…

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Theft of a House

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1911 · page 3

A unique achievement by a band of thieves is reported from Halle. They made away, incredible though it seems, with an entire building; a…

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Easy Divorce. Suggested Powers for County Court Judges

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1911 · page 3

Sir Gorell Barnes' advocacy of the reform of the divorce laws, with the view of placing wives on an equality with husbands, and Mr Plowden's remarkable…

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Local News. The Police Magistracy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 June 1911 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday afternoon, to take some action protesting against the withdrawal of the Police…

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Desperate Attempt to Escape From Gaol

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 5

Henry Cooper and William Buckley made a desperate attempt to escape from Hobart gaol. Warder Driscoll called upon them to…

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Attack Upon the President of Arbitration Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 5

Mr. Waddel: made a bitter attack upon Judge Higgins, President of the Arbitration Court. He declared he had sullied and disgraced…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 2

AT the Police Court yesterday before Mr. W. O. Russell, J.P., one defendant was fined 7/6, another 2/6 for drunkenness, and one 15/- for the dual offence…

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An Old Time Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 2

A writer in the Nowra "Leader" narrates that the father of Alderman Linkenbagh who recently died at Nowra, when he first arrived in the colony from Germany, in 1850,…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 2

A WARDEN'S Court was held at Braidwood on Thursday, at which Mr. G. R. Williams, Mining Warden, presided. The business consisted of the cancellation of a number of abandoned mining…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 2

AT the Quarterly Licencing Court on Thursday, at which Messrs. F. H. Galbraith, P.M. of Goulburn, Jas. McDonald and Jas. Higgins, Js.P., presided, the Inspector's report upon the various hotels…

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Some Law Court Humors

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 3

Mr Fox Russell contributes to the July "Pall Mail Magazine" "some Humors of the Law Courts." Among other things, Mr Russell tells of a…

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Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 2

AT the local Police Court on Monday, before Messrs Jas McDonald and Jas Higgins, J.P., Thomas Patrick Torpy pleaded guilty to charges of being drunk and disorderly and of using indecent…

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Police Court. Wednesday. July. 12, 1911. (Before Mr. Harcourt Holcombe P.M.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 July 1911 · page 2

Walter Barnett, on bail, pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly on the 7th instant. The facts of the case having been…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

George Fairhurst was brought before Mr. W. O. Russell, J.P., on Saturday, last, and charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on William E. Brennan…

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Police Court. SATURDAY. (Before Mr. W. O. Russell, J.p.) Language

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

A STRANGER named William Mill, was on the information of Constable McCarron, charged with using indecent language in Monaro street…

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Police Court. Thursday, July 20. (Before Mr. H. Holcombe, P.m.) Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 2

GEORGE FAIRHURST on remand was charged for that he did on the 14th instant at Green Hills, in the Federal Territory Seat of Government, assault and beat one William A…

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Police Court. THURSDAY, 20th JULY, 1911. (Before Mr. Harcourt Holcombe P.M.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 2

George Fairhurst on remand appeared to answer a charge that on 14th July he did one William A. Brennan thereby causing actual bodily harm…

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The Northampton Murder Coroner's Opinion of a Witness

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 4

At Northampton on Tuesday, 22nd of March, Samuel Rowledge, 37, carpenter, was charged with the wilful murder of his sweetheart, Alice Foster, 82,…

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