The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla and General Advertiser, Tue 24 Aug 1897 1
The Bega Standard.
Published on Tuesday and Friday
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True to our Principles.
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Tuesday, August 24, 1897.
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At the Bega Police Court, yesterday, before Messrs Braine and Greig J’sP, Joseph Spriggs, a groom, was committed for trial to the next Quarter Sessions for an unnatural offence.
TENDER.—The following tenders were opened at the Court-house, Bega, yesterday, for the erection of a hand-rail on the bridge over Colombo Creek, at Colombo: John Walsh £17 10s, Jacob Nybeck £18 4s 9d, Wm Manning £23 9s.
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The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla and General Advertiser, Fri 5 Nov 1897 2
BEGA QUARTER SESSIONS.
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On Tuesday and Wednesday 2nd and
3rd October, 1897.
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(Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.)
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JOSEPG SPRIGGS was charged with an unnatural offence, [bestiality], and was defended by Mr Bland. The jury consisted of Messrs WA Flowers, J Keollner junr, WHK Hickson, E Jamieson, D Heffernan, John McPaul, A Keollner, AA Wren, W Mussared, J Alcock, Jas McPaul and AL Munn. After hearing the evidence the jury retired for a few minutes and brought in a verdict of not guilty.
1 The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla and General Advertiser, Tue 24 Aug 1897, p. 2. Emphasis added.
2 The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla and General Advertiser, Fri 5 Nov 1897, p. 2.