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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

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Bowral Police Court. Friday September 27, 1901

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

Before Mr. W. S. Caswell, P.M., and Mr. R. S. Mackenzie, J P. W. Ramsey charged Archibald Ferguson with LARCENY…

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Local and District Notes. Mittagong Police Court

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

Before W. S. Caswell, P.M., and John Mealing, J.P., Robert Stephen Blacker and William Henry Delamont, two lads, were charged…

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Mittagong Police Court. Tuesday, September 24, 1901. (Before W. S. Caswell, P.M., and John Mealing, J.P.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

Robert Stephen Blacker and Wm. Henry Delamont, two lads, were charged with jointly breaking and entering the dwelling house of…

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Bowral Police Court

The Mittagong Express · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 2

At the above court on Friday last, before Messrs. W. S. Caswell, P.M, and R. S. Mackenzie, J. O., a boy named Archibald Ferguson was…

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Czolgosz Sentenced. London, Sept. 27

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 2 October 1901 · page 3

Czolgosz, who was found guilty at Buffalo, New York State, on Tuesday of the murder of President McKinley, was brought before the Court for sentence yesterday…

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Charge of Attempted Murder

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 October 1901 · page 4

At the Redfern Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Wilshire, S.M., Carl Kuhnell, aged 23, described as a commercial traveller, was charged with…

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Goulburn Circuit Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 October 1901 · page 5

The Circuit Court commenced at Goulburn on Monday before Mr. Justice Owen. Mr. W. A. Parker, assisted by Mr. Golding, of the Crown…

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Charge of Attempted Murder. (Concluded from last issue.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 October 1901 · page 4

Florence Ellen Smith, continuing her evidence, said she then got No. 3 from the rail of a fence in the yard, where she had placed it to dry. In…

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Charge of Stealing from a Till

The Mittagong Express · Friday 11 October 1901 · page 3

At the [?] on Tuesday last, before his [?] Mr. Justice Owen, [?] Murphy, a middle-aged man, was charged with stealing on…

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Abduction—Two Women Charged

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 4

At the Water Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. Wilshire. S.M., Myra Halkelt, alias Emily Jackson, or J.J. Tobin (36), boardinghouse-keeper, and…

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Small Debts Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 2

John Owen, for the estate of H. Coleman, sued James George Matthews for the sum of £22 9/10, less the sum of £1 11/1, which had been paid into…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1901. (Before Messrs. W. S. Caswell, P.M., G. Tate, John Cullen, and E. Hewison, Js.P.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 2

George McDonagh was summoned by the police for cruelty to a horse; it appeared that he had been driving a horse that had a sore shoulder. He…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Owen.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 5

George Frederick Craig and Enoch Ambrose Reynolds were charged with assaulting and robbing a one-armed man named John Wm. Mann. Reynolds was found not guilty…

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. W. S. Caswell, P.M., and J. A. Badgery and F. C. Stevenson, L.M's

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 2

Transfers of publicans' licenses from H. W. Taylor, Commercial hotel, Moss Vale, to Charles Justus Folbigg, and from George Sewell, of the Commercial…

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Police District of Berrima. Rumors of a Change

The Mittagong Express · Tuesday 15 October 1901 · page 2

At the Bowral Council meeting on Thursday night last Ald. Oxley created some mild excitement by asking the Mayor whether be had received any…

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Daring Burglary at White Cliffs

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 October 1901 · page 4

White Cliffs, Saturday.—A well-planed safe robbery occurred here last night or early this morning. The office of Harry Abatemey, a resident…

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Attempted Murder of a Woman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 October 1901 · page 2

The sudden derangement of the mind of a married man named William Johnson, 46 years of age, was responsible for a shocking suicide and…

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District Court

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 October 1901 · page 2

The above court wan opened on Tuesday at the Courthouse, Moss Vale, before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. The following legal gentlemen were present:—…

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Moss Tale Police Court. Monday, October 14, 1901. (Before Messrs. W. S. Carwell, P.M. and E. Hewi[?], J.P)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 October 1901 · page 2

Matthew Willis was before the court charged with having indecently assaulted Herold Gordon James, a boy six years of age, at Bundanoon on…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Alleged Assault

The Mittagong Express · Friday 18 October 1901 · page 3

At the Moss Vale Police Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. Caswell, P.M., and E. Hewison, J.P., Matthew Willis was charged with indecently assaulting…

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