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Courts & crime, 1891

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, 20th October

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 2

Before Mr T. Hobbs, and Mr J. warden, Licensing Magistrates. John Moloney applied for a transfer of the licence the "Star Hotel" and Billiard room…

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Milton Police Court Tuesday, 27th October

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. J. Warden and T. Hobbs, J's.P. T. Brodie v. H. Madden. Claim of £89s work done. No appearance of dependant. The plain iff neglected to produce the…

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Licensing Court

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 31 October 1891 · page 2

The Quarterly Licensing Report of the Licensing Inspector was read, and was of the whole very satisfactory. Following is t he report on the various licensed premises in the…

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Nowra Police Court. Tuesday, November 3. (Before Messrs. Nisbett, P.M., Z. G. Bice, and H. G. Morton, Js.P.) Obscene Language

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 November 1891 · page 2

William Robinson was charged with having on the 30th ult., used obscene language in Junction-street. Constable Draper deposed that about 8.30…

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Shoalhaven Police Court. Nowra, Tuesday, November 3

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 2

Sitting Justices: Messrs. Nisbett, P.M., Z. G. Rice and H. G. Morton. Furious Ridding Charles Schofield was fined 40s., with 4s l0d costs, or…

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Milton Police Court. Tuesday, November 3rd. Before Mr Maunsell, P.M., and Mr. T. Hobbs, J.P.

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 7 November 1891 · page 2

Thomas Brodie v. H. Madden. No appearance of either parches. Case stuck out. Police v. T. Greer. Defendant was charged with being dunk and disorderly. Pleaded…

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A Horrible Murder

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1891 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from San Luis Chispa, California, reports that a man named [?] in the employment of John [?] disappeared suddenly…

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Original Correspondence. Mr. Nisbett's Idea of Police Protection. to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Telegraph

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 November 1891 · page 3

SIR,—I observed in last Saturday's Berry Register that Mr. Nisbett fined an offender named Hanlon £3 for what I would describe—if the constable's evidence be taken as a cowardly…

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Wonra Court of Petty Sessions. TUESDAY, Nov. 17. (Before Mr. J. H. Nisbott, P.M., and Dr. Brereton, J.P.) Arthur J. Powell v. David Munro

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 November 1891 · page 2

Mr. Marriott appeared for the defendant. This was a summons brought for alleged illegal detention of property. The plaintiff stated that he is an agent for…

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Milton Police Court. Thursday, 12th November. Before Messrs. W. D. Warden and D. Kennedy, J's.P

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 14 November 1891 · page 3

A lad named Dudley Hall has charged with absenting himself from the indentured service of A. Emery. The lad was arrested by Constable Penlington at Termsil, and brought before the…

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Nowra Police Court. Friday, Nov. 13. (Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.m.) Larceny As a Bailee

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 18 November 1891 · page 2

HERBERT R. RICHARDSON, a canvasser lately in the employment of tho Oceanic Publishing Co., Sydney, was charged on remand with having stolen a picture of the Crucifixion, value…

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Pambula Police Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 2

AT the Police Court on Thursday, the 12th November, the following cases were disposed of before tho Police Magistrate and C. A. Baddeley, J.P. The legal profession…

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Wyndham Police Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 20 November 1891 · page 4

AT this court hold no the 11th inst., before Mr. Hales, P.M., and Messrs, Shee[?]y and Mu[?]in, Js.P., three defendants who had been imbibing too freely…

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Nowra Police Court. Thursday, Nov. 19. (Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.m.) Drunkenness & INDECENCY

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 25 November 1891 · page 2

William Patterson was charged with drunkenness and indecent exposure on the previous day in Junction street near the A.J.S. Bank. Constable Draper having deposed as to the…

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Police Court

Moruya Examiner · Friday 27 November 1891 · page 2

Tuesday, 23rd inst;, before Messrs Maunsell (P.M.,), Anderson, and Simpson, J’s.P. MARTIN KEATING v. — DAWRON — £7 9s, obtained by means of a valueless…

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Wy[?]dham Police Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 27 November 1891 · page 2

AT the Wyndham Police Court, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., before Mr. Hales, P.M. and Mr. Shechy, J.P., William Venus was charged with stealing six cows,…

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Shooting Murder in Nowra. the Accused Committed for Trial

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 28 November 1891 · page 2

ON Tuesday night an elderly man named Robert Williams killed his wife by bresking in her sknil with an iron har. From what we can learn Williams and his wife for years back lived…

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Brutal Murder in Nowra. Robert Williams Kills His Wife and Surrenders to the Police. the Murderer Committed to Take His Trial in Sydney Next

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1891 · page 2

Great excitement prevailed in Nowra on Tuesday night last when it became known that what proved to be a most cold-blooded and deliberate murder had…

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Land Court. Tuesday, the 24Th November. (Before Messrs. Rogers. Q.C., president and Freeman and Brandis.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 December 1891 · page 4

0, W. HINDE appealed against the disallowance of his non-residential conditional purchase application, No. 91.6 Bega. Mr. Whitfield appeared for the…

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A Terrible Murder by Boys

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 December 1891 · page 4

DETAILS of the ghastly murder of a boy of a eight by two other boys of about the same age were published in the Liverpool papers on Thursday, Sept. 24. On the previous day…

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