Bowral Police Court. Friday, July 8
BEFORE Mr. W. Alcorn, J.P. ENTERING ENCLOSED LANDS. James Brennan McCooey was charged with entering the enclosed lands of John…
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Courts & crime, 1897
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Small Debts Court
A. J. Turner v G. A. Garling; claim £26/10, dishonored cheque. Mr. C. C. Gale for plaintiff. No appearance of defendant…
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DURING Saturday night, July 3rd, says a local paper, Messrs R. H. Bulkeley and Co.'s store was broken into and a considerable quantity of goods were stolen,…
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BEFORE Mr. Caswell, P.M. Mary Weess was charged with having insufficient lawful means of support. Sentenced to one month's imprisonment…
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A burglary which ought to raine a blush of shame to the cheek of every Bill Sikes who takes pride in his profession has been perpetrated at the humble and ustiful cabmen's…
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George Dennett was charged with that he did at Bowral on 21st July last steal a white shirt, pair of socks, an apron and two collars, the property of Christopher and Florence Slack…
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BEFORE Mr. A. J. Harrison J.P. CHARGE OF STEALING. Charles Graham was charged, on remand from Parramatta, with stealing I…
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BEFORE Mr. E. M. Wickham, J.P. Mary Campbell, a visitor to the town, was fined 2/6 or 24 hours for drunkenness. Having no money, she took it out…
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BEFORE Mr. W. S. Caswell P.M. J. Kempner v A. Taylor, claims £1 10/balance on suit of clothes. Mr. C. C. Gale appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. Stealing at Coffee Rooms
SIR,—Stealing is being practised by both young and old and in all parts of tee world, and it is a pity that some of our Bowral boys (or rather larrikins) do…
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BEFORE Mr. W. S. Caswell, P.M. Arthur Richards was charged with trespassing on the enclosed lands of Mr. H. M. Oxley, Bowral, on the 31st of…
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BEFORE Messrs. W. S. Caswell' P.M., Copeland Bennett J.P., and THREE SCHOOL CASES. George Charker was summoned for not…
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A. ROBINSON v. A. Hill; claim £g/10 for looking after a house. Mr. H. M. Oxley appeared for defendant; Mr. Payne fo[?]plaintiff…
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BEFORE Messrs. W. S. Caswell, P.M., and W. Beaumont, J.P. INTERPLEADER ISSUE. G. D. Stewart, v. Edwin C. Cupitt;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Police Court. Friday, October 8
BEFORE Messrs. J. J. Campbell, W. Alcorn, and A. J. Harrison, Js.P. Thomas Turner was summoned for neglecting to send his son Norman to school…
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G. M. Pugh v Blunt, proprietor of the Moss Vale Scrutineer. Plaintiff claimed £2 for painting, sign-boards for the Scrutineer…
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AT the Goulburn. Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice Stophen, Charles Graham, (a young man) was arraigned on a charge of breaking and entering and stealing from a dwelling in Bowral…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amusing Court Proceedings Out West
A law case, "out West," in which a Chinaman accused a white man of having robbed him, is reported in an American newspaper as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowral Police Court. Thursday, October 2
BEFORE Mr. W. S. Caswell, P.M. The following cases were dealt with in the Small Debts Court. Thomson v. R. Frost; claim £6 0 6 for work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prince Henry and the Court
The death of Prince Henry of Battenberg has removed from the English Court one of its most striking and indisponsable personages. In 1886, says one who knew him, in the…
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