Stealing a Cheque
George Lyons was charged with having at Narandera, during the month of November, stolen a cheque for £13 17s 6d, the property of John McGee…
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Stealing From the Person
John Plummer was charged with having, on the 11th October, stolen 5s. from Thomas Grace. Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Quarter Sessions. Wednesday, November 24, 1869
HIS HONOR JUDGE FRANCIS took his seat at 10 o'clock; the members of the legal profession present being Messrs. Forbes (acting as Crown Prosecutor) and G. M. Stephen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Court. Thursday, November 25Ht, 1869. (Before His Honor Judge Francis.)
His Honor took his seat at 10 o'clock: Most of the cases were undefended, and none were of the slightest public interest. FORSYTH AND CO. V. JAMES MARKEY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tumut District Court. Friday, November 19Th. (Before his Honor Judge Francis.)
THE legal gentlemen, present were Messrs. Stephen, Forbes, Robertson, and Perkins. The following cases were disposed of:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Court. Monday, November 29, 1869. (Before the Police Magistrate and J. Leitch, Esq., J.P.)
UNSOUND MIND.—Denis Leonard was charged as above. From the evidence of George Hassett (wardsman of the hospital) and Dr. Robinson, it appeared that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Penrith Child Murder Case. Committal of the Two Prisoners
AT the police-court, Penrith, on Friday, November 26, Catherine Harrison was charged, on suspicion, with murdering a female infant child; and Charlotte Harrison…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Police Court. Monday November 29Th. Before the Police Magistrate
MICHAEL MORGAN was fined 5s, for being drunk and disorderly in Sheridan street, on Saturday night, and 40s, for assaulting the police when in discharge of their duty with the alternative of imprisonment. The fines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder of Captain Blockett and Seven Others
By the arrival of the schooner Eugenie, says the New Zealand Herald of the 13th, from Tahiti on Sunday morning, we have the melancholy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Police Court. Monday, December 6, 1869. (Before the Police Magistrate and F. A. Tompson, Esq., J.p.) Sheep-stealing
RICHARD WALTHAM SUTTON was charged with sheep-stealing. Mr. Fitzhardinge, who appeared for the prisoner, objected to the warrant under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supreme Court. the Queen V. Christian and Others
THIS was a special case from the last Wagga Wagga assizes. The prisoners had been tried before his Honor the Chief Justice on an indictment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, December 4Th. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
HENRY MAYNARD and WILLIAM ARCHER were respectively fined 5s., and 3s. Gd. costs, for allowing goals to wander about in Punch-street, North Gundagai, on the 28th ult…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Police Court. Friday, December 10, 1869. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
Cecilia M'Guire, on remand, charged with robbery, was further remanded until the 13th instant. Lawrence Hyland was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuesday November 30Th. Before the Police Magistrate, and J. B. Elworthy, Esq., J. P.
The adjourned charge came on against JOHN SPENCER of having suffered a sow and five pigs to stray in Mount street, south Gundagai, on the 1st instant. Mrs. Heckner denied having informed Constable Crosser that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horrible Double Murder Near London
In the European news of our last issue we referred to the shocking double murder that had taken place at Wood Green, a suburb of London, on September 4th. The' European…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court of Requests. Tuesday, December 7Th
Before the Police Magistrate, and J. B. Elworthy, Esq., J. P. JOSEPH D. MORLEY v. MARY REARDON, damage done to garden and crop by pigs, £4 16s. Mr. Creagh for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Execution of Palmer and Williams for the Murder of Mr. Halligan. (From the Rockhampton Bulletin, Nov. 25.)
YESTERDAY morning, at 10 minutes past 8 o'clock, Charles Frederick George Palmer and John Williams underwent the last penalty of the law in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Police Court. Monday, December 13, 1869. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
WILLIAM BROWN was brought up on remand, charged with robbery. Prisoner called Justus Wagenbach, who deposed: He generally kept his money in his collar-box;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Police Court. Saturday. December 11Th
Before too Police Magistrate, J. B. Elworthy, and J. Crowe, Esq's J.P.'s SIMON WISDEN was charged with stealing six applings, dthe property of the bishop of Goulburm, from the Church of England Cemetery, North Gundagai…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuesday, December 14Th. Before the Police magistrate, and J. B. Elwortby Esq., J.P.
The case of J. Boss v. W. Edwards and W. Jessop, adjourned from Saturday again came before the court Ross claimed £5 lls. for wages. There was a cross summons in which he was charged by defendants in the…
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