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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1883

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Moss Vale Police Court. Tuesday, Octeren 9

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Captain Bridge, J.P. James Watson was chargod with being drunk in a railway carriage, and on pleading guilty, was fined 20s. Finn paid…

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Correspondence. [While we shall be glad to publish letters, it must be undetstood that it does not follow we endorse the opinions of our correspondents.] Mr. M'court on the Mittagong School, Case. to the Editor of the Pree Press

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1883 · page 3

SIR,—In reply to an ctector, Mr. M'Court stated at his public meeting, held at Mittagong, that Mr. Lumsden, a late tenecher here, complained to him that he could not maintain the proper diseipline of…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, October 17

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs, F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and John A. Badgery, J.P. BREACH OF THE LICENSING ACT. Joseph Waters was charged with a breach…

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Mr. M'court at Campbelltown

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1883 · page 4

IN accordance with an advertisement in a previous issue of the Campbelltown Herald, Mr. M'Court, M.P., one of the members for this electorate, addressed a meeting of his…

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Campbelltown Police Court. Saturday, October 20

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 4

BEFORE P. B. Hurley, Esq., J.P. John Cunningham was charged with that, being a bailee, he did feloniously. during the year 1883. convert to his own…

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Mittagong Police Court. Monday, November 5, 1883

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 10 November 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and H. Childs, J.P. William Henry Weat was charged with committing a breach of the Tolls' Act by interrupting the free…

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Court of Petty Sussions

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 10 November 1883 · page 2

THE same deputation waited on the Minister of Justice, Willi regard to the establishment of a court of petty sessions Bowral. They presented a numerously signed petition, which pointed out the great…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, November 15

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 17 November 1883 · page 3

Before Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., H. E. Kater, and G. Tate, Js.P. BREACH OF EDUCATION ACT. Samuel Patten for a breach of the Public…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, November 21

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and G. Tate, J.P. Absconding from service. James Thompson was charged with absconding…

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Mittagong Police Court. Monday, Nov. 19. (BEFORE Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., H. Childs, and Captain Sullivan, Js. P.)

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1883 · page 2

Charles and E. Morley v. T. B. Durham. Claim for £16 wages for work done under agreement. Mr. Nichols for plaintiff, and Mr. Gale for…

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Berrima Police Court. Tuesday, November 27

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1883 · page 2

BEFORE F. R. Wlishire, Esq., P.M. Robert Suedden v. John Kerr. Sureties of the Peace.—Upon application, defendant was bound over to keep the peace for three…

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Moss[?]vale Police Court. Wednesday, November 28

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M.; G. Tato, and H. E. Kater, Js.P, Thomas and Alice Hood v. Samuel Patten. Mr. Nichols for complainants and Mr. Davidson…

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Alleged Murder of a Child

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1883 · page 3

MARGARET MORGAN, a laundress, was charged at Ramnam, on November 4, with the murder of Thomas Moor, aged 1 year and 2 months, by starving him to death. The…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, December 12

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., G. Tate, and H. E. Kater, Js.P. William Morris v. Samuel Hughes. Plaintiff claimed £4 4s, for work and labour done…

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Attempted Murder at Paddington

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1883 · page 4

ABOUT seven o'clock last evening the city was again thrown into a state of excitement owing to the circulation of a report that another woman had been shot. At first…

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The Rocky Ponds Murder

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1883 · page 3

MR. INSPECTOR BRENNAN, accompanied by two black trackers, passed through Yass from Goulburn two or three nights ago, en route for Rocky Ponds, the object being to…

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Mittagong Police Court. Monday, Dec. 17, 1883

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and H. Childs, J.P. Rush v. W. Allcrdico. Claim of £3 for one pair of buggy shafts…

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District Court

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 2

THE above Court was opened at Moss Vale at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning last, before his Honor Judge McFarland. The members of the legal profession present were:—Messrs. J. Davidson, A. M…

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