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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1900

104 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 5 of 6

Stealing a Bicycle. Thursday, Sep. 13,1900

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 3

AT the Sydney Quarter Sessions before Judge Fitzhardinge and jury, Simeon Alexander Moss pleaded not guilty to a charge that on February 28, at Sydney, in the dwelling house of Alfred Ernest Lee,…

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Bowral Police Court. Friday, September 11, 1900

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. W. S: Caswell, P.M., and Mr. A. Stephens, J.P. ASSAULT. Samuel Richnrrls was charged with unlawfully…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, 12Th September, 1900

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 3

BEFORE Mr. W. S. Caswell, P.M., and Messrs. G. Tate, J. Cullen, Dr. Stevenson aud E. Hewison J's.P. Breach of Early Closing Act…

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Small Debts Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 2

C. Waters V. Mrs. Ferguson; claim £5 2s 8d for goods delivered. No appearanoe of defendant, who wrote stating she could not pay. Verdict for plain-. tiff, with 5s post of court…

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Alleged Parliamentary Assault

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 1

A curious incident has taken place between Mr. Norton and Mr. Price. The circumstances are extraordinary. Mr. Price was in charge of the Medical…

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So Did the Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 3

A certain individual in the North was summoned recently, charged with being found on licensed premises during prohibited hours…

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Simeon Alexamder Moss. a Bowral "Blood." After many Brushes with the Law, Moss "Go's Up" of Last. Scorches to "Quod" on a S'olen "Jigger." Sentenced to 12 Months' "Hard." Severe Comments by Judge Fitzhardinge. Who Characterises Moss' Conduct In most Seathing Terras. (Abridged from Sydney Truth.)

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 4

FOR the past twelve months Simeon Alexander Moss has been very much in the hands of the police. He was twice charged and tried with an awful offence—…

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Bowral Police Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

AT the Bowral Police Court yesterday (Friday) before Messrs W. S. Caswell, P.M., and W. Alcorn, J P., Mrs. Bissaker pleaded guilty to a charge of having…

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Small Debts Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

Broughton Corry of Colo Vale v. Alfred Beattie of Yass; claim £8/1 for produce, etc. Mr. Oxley appeared for plaintiff. No appearance of defendant…

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Brutal Murder of a Woman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 2

Melbourne, Sunday.—A most brutal murder has come to light at East Brunswick. Late late night Edwerd Harrison, a slater, attacked Sarah…

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Murder Experts. (WILLIAM F. W. Howe, in the "Cosmopolitan.")

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 4

In time civilisation may succeed in rendering murder impossible. The vital forces of the world are moving in unison toward the upbuilding of…

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Small Debts Court

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 2

At the Bowral police court yesterday before Mr. W. S. Caswell, P.M., D. Rutherford claimed £11 13/5, from W. P. Kelleher for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff said his agent was, not authorised to…

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Particulars of the Murder

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 October 1900 · page 2

Full particulars show that the crime was more dastardly than at first supposed. Nannie Solan M'Kinley, the murdered woman, was only 24. The…

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Bowral Police Court. Friday, Oct. 26Th

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 2

BEFORE, Messrs. W. S. Caswell, P.M., R. S. Mackenzie and W. Alcorn Ja. P. John Milligan y. Kelleher for use of insulting words by which a breach of the peace may be…

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Naturalist. Dogs As Police Assistants

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 3

The dog policeman has now joined the Parisian police force, and when the Exhibition opened he was an important attache of each station house. Favourable…

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A Murder in England. Wellington

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 November 1900 · page 1

A man has been arrested hero on a charge of the wilful murder of Alfred Welch, at Colchester, England, seven years ago. The police…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, November 14. (Before the Police Magistrate)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 November 1900 · page 2

Police v. A. Fyfe.—Mr. Gale appeared for the defendant, who was summoned for not complying with the Dairies Supervision Act…

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Murder of a Farmer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 November 1900 · page 2

Melbourne, Wednesday.—A farmer named Hugh Lavery, a resident of Beulah, was found this morning dead in his bed with his skull fractured in…

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Small Debts Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 November 1900 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. E. Hewison, J.P. C. Bushby v. J. T. Moore.—This was a claim for 15s 2d work and…

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Wedding Bells at a Police Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 4

The officials and others whose business takes them to the Water Police Court were, on Friday, witnesses of a ceremony which should go far to coften…

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