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Courts & crime, 1889

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Nowra Police Court. Tuesday. November 8. 1889

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. Hyde Nisbett), Messrs C. Blacket, Z. G. Bice, John Glanville. J. Green ad John Monaghan, Js.P…

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Murder of Dr. Cronin

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 2

At the trial of the men charged with the murder of Dr. Cronin, evidence was given by the Winnipeg convicts to the effect that four men beat Cronin to death with sand bag clubs…

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Special Licensing Court

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 2

A special licensing court will be held at the Court House, Moruya, on Monday, the 11th instant…

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Repairs to the Court House

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 2

The successful tenderers for the repairs and renovation of the Moruya Court House and grounds ara now busy, and already the painters have produced quite a…

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Nowra Police Court. Wednesday, November 6Th, 1689. (Before the Police Magistrate, mr. J. H. Nisbett. J.p.) Application for Sureties

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 1

Mrs. Mary Carney summoned her husband, Patrick Oarney, to show cause should not be bound over to keep the peace and to find sureties for his future goof behaviour. Mr…

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Police Court

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 13 November 1889 · page 2

At this court on Monday before Messrs G. Maunsell, P.M., and R. Anderson, J.P., several townspeople were fined in small amounts for allowing their cows to wander about the…

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Nowra Police Court. Friday, before the Police Magistrate Mr. J. H. Nisbett, J.p.) Embezzlement

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 November 1889 · page 2

Henry Wolfgang Jacobs (on remand) was charged with embezzling the sum of £12, the moneys of his employer, George Richard Nichols; Sergeant Sykes now stated that at the…

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Nowra Land Court

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 1

A LAND COURT was held in Nowra on Wednesday last when the following cases were dealt with. CASES FOR INQUIRY…

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Police Court

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1889 · page 2

A [?] was presented at the Moruya Police Court on Monday last, not a "drunk" [?]…

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Nowra Police Court. Friday—Before the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. Hydo Nisbett). Jacobs Again Before the Court

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 November 1889 · page 2

Henry Wolfgang Jacobs, on remand, charged with embezzling promissory note of the value of £21, the property of George Roberts Nichols, again appeared in custody, the prosecution as…

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New Magistrate

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1889 · page 2

Amongst the new batch of Justices of the Peace which have just been gazetted appears the name of Mr. Henry Lomas Smith, of Moruya, he being the only favoured one in…

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Murder at Surry Hills

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 3

A DELIBERATE murder was perpetrated at Surry Hills on Saturday night. It appears that shortly after 11 o’clock a man named Henry Blackburn, a labour, was…

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District Court . Wednesday 20Th November [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 2

THE local profession was repressed by Mr. Dawson [?]and Messrs [?]Bland [?]and [?] The Judge made an order that [?]…

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Land Court. Application Special Purchases

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 1

No, 20 of 88, sec. B6, of 8 acres, George [?]applicant. J. and R. Guihan caveators. The following is the decision of the Nowra land Board in the case above-mentioned which…

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Nowra Police Court. Friday, November 22, 1889. BEFORE the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. H. Nisbett), Messrs. J. Green John Monaghan, and James Fraser. Alleged Furious Riding

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 2

Herbert Miller and Goerge Armstrong of Pyrce, were charged on summons with furious rifling along the Worragee road on the evening of the 9th instant, to the danger of passengers…

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Annual Licensing Court

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 2

At the sitting of this court on Tuesday last Messrs. R. [?], J's P., presiding, the following auctioneer's licenses were…

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Mining Court

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 December 1889 · page 2

Mr. Warden Aldcorn held a Mining Court at Nowra on Monday last and disposed of two interpleader cases in which the executions enforced by the judgement creditor were sought to…

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Pambula Police Court. THURSDAY. [?] Dec 1889. (Before Messrs A. J. [?], K. [?] and [?] A. Bad[?], J’s.P. )

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1889 · page 3

J. W. [?] v. A. P. [?] : excessive damages on cattle [?] asked in public [?] J. W. Raymond, deposed : [?] a farmer…

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Shoalhaven Police Court

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 18 December 1889 · page 2

AT the above Court on Wednesday last before Messrs. Z. G. Bico and John Glanvillo, J's.P., Charles Edwards, charged on suspicion with being of unsound mind…

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