Wagga Wagga Express, Tue 7 Nov 1893 1

CHARGE OF INDECENT
ASSAULT.
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    At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr H Baylis, PM, August Rabel [sic], a German, 65 years of age, was charged with indecently assaulting a child 5 years of age at The Rock on Sunday last.

    Constable Davidson deposed to the arrest of the prisoner at the Hanging Rock on the previous day, when he denied the offence, stating that he was incapable and could do no work, being then travelling about with a magic lantern. When charged with the offence the prisoner stated the parents of the child would have to prove it, and denied disarranging the child’s clothing.

    Evidence was given by the mother of the child to the effect that she saw the prisoner with the child sitting on a box in the back yard of her premises, and holding her with one hand while he was placing the other under the child’s clothing. The child made a statement in which she said the prisoner promised to buy her some lollies, but that there were none in the store. He gave her some dates.

    A little boy aged six who was playing in the yard at the time corroborated the evidence for the prosecution, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the next court of Quarter Sessions at Wagga, the date of which is to be fixed.

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The Wagga Wagga Advertiser, Tue 23 Jan 1894 2

WAGGA QUARTER SESSIONS.

THE January Quarter Sessions will be opened in Wagga this morning, at 10 o’clock, before His Honor Judge Forbes. The following prisoners are now in the Wagga gaol awaiting trial:—
    August Lobel [aka Lebel; Lorbet], indecent assault, committed from Wagga.

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The Wagga Wagga Advertiser, Thu 25 Jan 1894 3

WAGGA QUARTER SESSIONS.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23.
(Before His Honor Judge Forbes.)

    The Quarter Sessions were opened at the Court-house at 10 am on Tuesday. Judge Forbes presiding.
    Mr Harris acted as Crown Prosecutor, and Mr Whitfield was the only other member of the bar present.
…

INDECENT ASSAULT.

    August Lorbet, an infirm-looking old man, was charged with indecently assaulting Margaret Duncan [aka Margaret Donkin], a girl under the age of five years, at the Rock on 5th November last.

    The prisoner pleaded not guilty.

    Hannah Duncan, wife of the licensee of King’s Own Hotel, and mother of the child, deposed that the prisoner was travelling with a magic lantern and stayed at the hotel for a day or two; she described the circumstances of the offence, which had been witnessed by her; the child had not been in any way injured.

    The jury found the prisoner guilty, after a short retirement, and he was sentenced by His Honor to 12 months imprisonment in Young gaol.

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Wagga Wagga Express, Thu 25 Jan 1894 4

WAGGA QUARTER SESSIONS.
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    The Wagga Quarter Sessions were commenced on Tuesday last at the Wagga court-house, His Honor Judge Forbes presiding. Mr Herbert Harris acted as Crown Prosecutor.
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INDECENT ASSAULT.

    August Lobel was charged with having, on the 5th November last, at the Rock, indecently assaulted Margaret Donkin, a girl under the age of 14 years, namely 5 years.

    The jury in this case were:—Messrs W Shaw, JS Lupton, W Devlin, J Edney, Owen Cooney, William Matthews, SR Power, CK Horwood, Daniel McNickle, George Mowsar, Robert Shoemark and Charles Blatsch.

    Evidence having been given, the jury after retiring, returned a verdict of guilty.

    His Honor sentenced the prisoner, who was an old man, to 12 months in Young gaol.

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Young gaol description book 1886-1894 5

No. Name. Con. Ship. Year of Arrival. Where Born. Religion.
 1894
 11		  August Lobel
 Wagga Wagga		  Free  Parland  1849  Sweden  Lutheran
Trade. Age. Height. Make. Complexion. Color of. Education Remarks.
Hair Eyes
 Gardener  64  5'  4½"  Medium  Pale  Grey  Brown  R & W  Bald scar on left eyebrow,
 scars between shoulders,
 (?) weight 127lbs

 
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August Lobel, Gaol photo sheet 6 

SRNSW: NRS2605, [3/6000], Young Gaol photographic description book, 1894-1920, No. 5, p. 5.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. A 94
5 Young

Date when Portrait was taken: 13-9-1894

Name: August Lobel

Native place: Sweden

Year of birth: 1830

Arrived       Ship: Parland
in Colony }   Year: 1849

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Gardener

Religion: Lutheran

Education, degree of: R & W

Height: 5' 4"

Weight     On committal: 127
in lbs     } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Grey

Colour of eyes: Brown


Marks or special features: Bald, scar on left elbow scar between shoulders ruptured

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

Wagga Wagga Q.S

23

 1

 1894

Indecent assault 

12 months HL Young Gaol

 

1     Wagga Wagga Express, Tue 7 Nov 1893, p. 2. Emphasis added.

2     The Wagga Wagga Advertiser, Tue 23 Jan 1894, p. 2.

3     The Wagga Wagga Advertiser, Thu 25 Jan 1894, p. 3. Emphasis added.

4     Wagga Wagga Express, Thu 25 Jan 1894, p. 2.

5     SRNSW: NRS2604, [6/5437], Young gaol description book, 1886-1804, p. 106.

6     SRNSW: NRS2605, [3/6000], Young Gaol photographic description book, 1894-1920, No. 5, p. 5.

 

Indecent Assault