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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1895

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. F. R. Wilshire P.M., and J. A. Badgery L.M.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 June 1895 · page 4

The applications of E. B. Daly for a renewal of the license of the Surveyor-General Hotel, Berrima and of Mrs. Daly for the transfer of the same license to J. R. Harper…

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Bowral Police Court. Friday, July 3

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 July 1895 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. J. J. Campbell, T. Loveridge, and J. Prince, Js.P. INDECENT CONDUCT.—B. C. Wilshire was charged with indecent exposure…

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Small Debts Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 July 1895 · page 2

A PARTNERSHIP.—John Holmes v. James Mormsey, junior, and Richard Evans; claim £11 16/6 for goods sold. Mr. C. C. Gale for plaintiff; Mr. C. A. Walker…

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Bowral Police Court. Wednesday, 17Th July

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. R. S. Mackenzie on Wednesday, James Numbers was charged with indecent exposure in Wingecarribbee-street the previous afternoon. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 or 14 days. The…

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Small Debts Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 2

At the police court yesterday, the email debts case—J. Holmes v. Morrissey and Evans, claim £11 6/8, goods sold—which was adjourned from the previous court, again came on for hearing before…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, July 17Th. (Before F. R. Wilshire, P.m.) Wages Case

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 4

George and Edward Ritchings, father and son, of Braemar, near Moss Vale, gardeners sued J. F. Montgomery, for wages due on a joint account amounting to £57 15s, under…

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Bowral Election. Mr. W. McCourt Returned Without Opposition

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 3

THE public nomination of a member for the Bowral electorate took, place at noon yesterday (Friday) in the School of Arts, Bowral. There was a large attendance of…

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Goulburn Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, July 23.—Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. Stealing and Destroying a Letter at Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 2

Frederick Adolphus Richards was charged with stealing at Bowral on the 8th May a letter belonging to the Postmastergeneral. He was further charged with…

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Bowral Police Court. Friday, August 2

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 August 1895 · page 3

BEFORE Mr. F. R. Wilshire, P.M. J. G. Morris and Co. v. Wm. Taylor; claim £6 6/, valuation fees. Mr. H. M. Oxley for plaintiff. No…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, August 7Th, 1895. Before Messrs. F.R. Wilshire, P.M., G. Tate, and I. S. Ponder. J's P.

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 August 1895 · page 4

The following persons were proceeded against by H. A. Taylor (Inspector of Nuisances) for allowing stock to stray in the streets.— P. Hoare, J. Taylor, J. Wallis,…

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Bowral Small Debts Court. Friday, 16Th August, 1895. (Before Messrs. J.J.Campbell, W. Alcorn and Cobb, J's.P.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 August 1895 · page 2

Wm. Monk v. Robert Viles.— To recover £9 10s for plastering work done at Moss Vale. Mr. C.C. Gale for plaintiff; Mr. Oxley for defendant…

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Bowral Police Court. Friday, August 30

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 3

BEFORE Messrs. R. S. Mackenzie and John Cobb, J[?].P. George Chalker, for not sending his child Ernest to school the required number of…

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Small Debts Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 3

G. H. Sheaffe v. T. W. Kennedy claim £10 for rent. Mr. Oxley, for plaintiff, said the money had been paid into the Commercial Bank to…

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Letters to the Editor. Court Fees

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 2

SIR,—I notice that a lot of my brother-colonials are going up King-street lately; and, lest I should also want to take advantage of the same way out of a…

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Suppression of Gambling. Vigorous Action by the Police

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 5

In consequence of reports as to gambling in Sydney, the police are taking vigorcus action to cause all the batting places in the city to be closed…

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Shocking Murder in Sydney

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 September 1895 · page 2

At about ten o'clock on Sunday night some women living in the vicinity of Duke-street, Woolloomooloo, noticed a large wooden case lying near the water's edge…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, September 4, 1895, (Before Messrs. F. R. Walshire, P.M., T. W. Lackey and G. [?]

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 September 1895 · page 4

A number of persons were summoned for allowing animals to stray on the streets, and in each case a fine of 5 sand costs was imposed…

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A Murder Publicly Executed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 September 1895 · page 7

Public Executions are rarely heard of now a days, but one took place recently in the mining district of Dombea, New Caledonia. A chinaman had been found guilty of…

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Licensing Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 September 1895 · page 4

The application of A. Parker for transfer of license of the Commercial Hotel, Burrawang, to Mr. J. J. Walsh was granted…

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Moss Vale Police Court. (Before Messrs. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., J. Rogers, I. S. Ponder, G. Tate, N. H. Throsby, and D. Clifford, J's.P.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 September 1895 · page 4

Mr. Davis appeared for prosecution. Thomas B. Cole, journalist, of Albury, was charged with travelling from Towrang to Moss Vale without a ticket. Defendant…

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