Thomas Lawless, 1896
Below also see: Thomas Lawless, 1897

 

Barrier Miner, Mon 20 Jul 1896 ¹

POLICE COURT.
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MESSRS GA Mills, GA Crawford, and GT Lambert, JsP, were on the Bench to-day.

    John Morgan, alias Morris, was fined 2s 6d for drunkenness in Argent-street on Saturday.
    Martin Walsh, for a similar offence was fined 5s; in default, 24 hours.
    Thomas Lawless, alias Stephen Lawless, for drunkenness in Argent-street yesterday, was mulct in a like penalty.
    A charge of playing football in the street was dealt with as reported elsewhere.

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Barrier Miner, Thu 23 Jul 1896 ²

POLICE COURT.
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MR MAKINSON, PM, presided to-day.

    Thomas Lawless, alias Stephen Lawless, who had been convicted of drunkenness on Monday, was brought up again, charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and also with having used indecent language. It appeared that at about 7.30 the accused was very drunk in Argent-street. On being arrested he made use of grossly indecent language. He was fined 10s and 20s respectively; in default, two days and seven days’ imprisonment.

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Barrier Miner, Fri 31 Jul 1896 ³

POLICE COURT.
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MESSRS GA Mills and CJ Pound, JsP, presided to-day.

     Thomas Lawless pleaded guilty to the charge of having been drunk and disorderly in Blende-street yesterday. He was fined 5s, with an alternative of 24 hours; and on a second charge, of using indecent language, he was fined 40s, or one month’s imprisonment.

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Barrier Miner, Mon 24 Aug 1896 ⁴

POLICE COURT.
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MR MAKINSON, PM, presided to-day.

      Stephen Lawless pleaded guilty to having been drunk and disorderly in Oxide-street on Saturday night. He had four previous convictions against him this year, and he was fined 20s—in default, seven days.

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Barrier Miner, Tue 29 Sep 1896 ⁵

POLICE COURT.
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MR MAKINSON, PM, presided to-day.
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    Stephen Lawless, an old offender, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 10s–in default, three.

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Thomas Lawless, 1897
 

Barrier Miner, Fri 15 Jan 1897 ⁶

A REVOLTING CASE.
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Heard with Closed Doors.

THE comparatively unusual course of hearing a case with closed doors was resorted to by Mr Makinson, PM, at the Police Court this morning. The charge was one of indecent assault on a boy, [John James, 9 years of age], preferred against Thomas Lawless, an old man, a labourer, 60 years of age, who only finished serving a sentence of three months’ imprisonment on Tuesday.
    The evidence given by the several witnesses was of a most revolting character, entirely unprintable.
    Accused was committed to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions to be held on April 5.

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Barrier Miner, Wed 7 Apr 1897 ⁷

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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    The Court of Quarter Sessions, before Judge Gibson, sat till 20 minutes past 6 o’clock last evening, when the hearing of the charge of assault on the Chinese, Ah Chick, was concluded. A full report appears in another column.
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INDECENT ASSAULT.

    On the court resuming this morning, Thos Lawless, an old man of 55, pleaded not guilty to having in December last indecently assaulted a small boy. The assault was alleged to have been committed late one night in one of the Proprietary’s dams after the performance of Fitzgerald’s circus. His Honor summed up against Lawless, and the jury return a verdict of guilty. His Honor, in sentencing accused to two years’ hard labor in Broken Hill gaol, pointed out that he had made himself liable to a long term of penal servitude. Had he injured the boy at all, his Honor would have ordered him to be flogged; as it was, he had to say that prisoner was a very dirty man.

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Thomas Lawless, Gaol photo sheet ⁸ 

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Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 1222
Bathurst

Date when Portrait was taken: 24-11-1897

Name: Thomas Lawless

Native place: Victoria Year of birth: 1846 Arrived       Ship: in Colony }   Year: BS Trade or occupation previous to conviction  } Laborer Religion: R. C. Education, degree of: Nil Height: 5' 4½' Weight     On committal: 157 in lbs     } On discharge: Colour of hair: Brown to grey Colour of eyes: Brown

Marks or special features: 1st joint little finger deformed. Scar on stomach. Blue mark s on forehead. Nose croaked. 2 scars bottom of neck. Scar left ear

(No. of previous Portrait ... )  CONVICTIONS
Where and When				Offence.	Sentence
Broken Hill PC  ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Broken Hill Q.S	30 23 23 31 31 10 10 12   7	6   7   7   7   7   9   9 10   4	1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1897	Indecent language Drunk and disorderly Indecent language  Drunk and disorderly Indecent language Drunk and disorderly Indecent language Vagrancy Indecent assault on a male person	40/- or 7 days Conf 10/- or 2 days C 40/- or7 days C     |  Concurrent 2/6 or 24 hours C 40/- or 1 month C   |  Concurrent £2-2-6 or 7 days C 60/- or 3 weeks C    |  Concurrent 3 months H.L. 2 years HL

 

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Thomas Lawless, Gaol photo sheet ⁹

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Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. –

Date when Portrait was taken: 24-11-1897

Name: Thomas Lawless

Native place: Victoria Year of birth: 1846 Arrived       Ship: in Colony }   Year: BC Trade or occupation previous to conviction  } Laborer Religion: RC Education, degree of: Nil Height: 5' 4½" Weight     On committal: 157 in lbs     } On discharge: Colour of hair: Brown to grey Colour of eyes: Brown

Marks or special features: 1st joint little finger deformed scars on stomach blue marks on forehead, nose crocked 2 scars bottom of back scar left ear

(No. of previous Portrait ... )  CONVICTIONS
Where and When				Offence.	Sentence
Broken Hill PC  ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Broken Hill Q.S Bathurst PO ditto ditto ditto ditto  ditto ditto Stuart Town PC Wellington PC ditto Molong ditto	30 23 23 31 31 10 10 12   7 14 14 14 14 14 21 21 22 19 19 21 21	6   7   7   7   7   9   9 10   4 11 11 12 12 12   4   4   5   1   1   3   3	1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1896 1897 1898 1898 1898 1898 1899 1899 1899 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904	Indecent language Drunk and disorderly Indecent language  Drunk and disorderly Indecent language Drunk and disorderly Indecent language Vagrancy Indecent assault on a male person Indecent language  Resist police  Indecent language Assault constable Damage uniform Drunk & disorderly Obscene language.. Obscene language.. 1) Obscene language... 2) Assault constable in the execution of his duty 1) Indecent language.. 2) Assault constable while in the execution of his duty	40/- or 7 days C 10/- or 2 days 40/- or7 days C 2/6 or 24 hours C 40/- or 1 month C   |  Concurrent £2-2-6 or 7 days C 60/- or 3 weeks C    |  Concurrent 3 months H.L. 2 years HL £2 or 1 month C £1 or 7 days C     |  Concurrent £3 or 2 months C     £3 or 2 months C     | Accumulative £1. 5. Or 7 days C  20/- or 7 days C £2 or 1 month C     |  Concurrent £1 or 1 month C     (over) £3 or 2 months L.L.   £3 or 2 months L.L.  | Concurrent £5 or 2 months C. £5 or 2 months C.  | Cumulative

 

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¹     Barrier Miner, Mon 20 Jul 1896, p. 4. Emphasis added.

²     Barrier Miner, Thu 23 Jul 1896, p. 4.

³     Barrier Miner, Fri 31 Jul 1896, p. 2.

⁴     Barrier Miner, Mon 24 Aug 1896, p. 3.

⁵     Barrier Miner, Tue 29 Sep 1896, p. 4.

⁶     Barrier Miner, Fri 15 Jan 1897, p. 4.

⁷     Barrier Miner, Wed 7 Apr 1897, p. 2.

⁸     SRNSW: NRS1998, [3/5960], Bathurst Gaol photographic description book, 1874-1930, No. 1222, p. 145, R5085.

⁹     SRNSW: NRS1998, [3/13072], Bathurst Gaol photographic description book, 1874-1930, No. –, pp. 207-8, R5089.

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