The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural & Mining Advocate, Sat 16 Mar 1907 1

THE COURTS.
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    The Cootamundra Quarter Sessions start on Tuesday next. Owing to Judge Rogers having to keep an engagement at Narandera, the Cootamundra court will adjourn from Thursday, 21st March, to Thursday, 4th April. A list has been officially prepared of the cases that are set down for each day, and as there are a couple of cases from Adelong, we append the list:—

    Tuesday, 19th March: Adolph R Rochoo, forgery and uttering (two charges); AR Rochoo, false pretences; James Harris, indecent assault; James Williams, breaking and entering and stealing; Paul Singh, shooting at with intent.

    Wednesday, 20th March: Cornelius Dacey, assault; Patrick Joseph Cashman, larceny (two charges).

    Thursday, 4th April: Richard G Beecher and others, placing obstruction on railway line.

    Friday, 5th April: Hercules Hull, assault; appeal of George Sharp, order under Infants’ Protection Act .

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The Cootamundra Herald, Wed 20 Mar 1907 2

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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Tuesday.
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    Before his Honor Judge Rogers.

    Mr JT Stratton, JP, Mayor occupied the seat on the Bench of the Deputy Sheriff.

    The professianal [sic] gentlemen present were the Crown Prosecutor and Messrs TP MacMahon and CA Vaughan.
…

Small’s Royal Hotel, Temora, c. 1905. Image: NSW State Library collection. Reproduction: Peter de Waal
Small’s Royal Hotel, Temora, c. 1905. Image: NSW State Library
collection. Reproduction: Peter de Waal

INDECENT ASSAULT.

    James Harris was charged with the above, [indecent assault on a boy named James Wells], at Temora; and he pleaded not guilty.

    His Honor expressed some diffidence about the case.

    Jury: C Hoey, J Loiterton, WH Richardson, J Boyd, FR Sparre, R Palmer, P Ryan (Cootamundra), WE Ward, JJ Leahy, J Neville, J Connell, AEM Hassall.

    The case was of such a nature that we could not report the detailed evidence.

    Accused was found guilty, and was sentenced to nine months’ hard labour in Goulburn gaol.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 20 Mar 1907 3

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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Cootamundra, Tuesday.

    At the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Rogers.
…
    James Harris, for indecency, was sentenced to nine months.

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James Harris, Gaol photo sheet 4

SRNSW: NRS2397, [3/6011], Parramatta gaol photographic description book, 29 Aug 1905-11 Nov 1909, No. 897, p. 58, R5137.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 897
Parramatta

Date when Portrait was taken: 1st May 1907

Name: James Harris

Native place: Bendigo Victoria

Year of birth: 24th November 1864

Arrived       Ship:
in Colony }   Year:

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Labourer

Religion: R. C.

Education, degree of: R & W

Height: 5' 6¾"

Weight     On committal: 192
in lbs     } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Brown mixed with gray

Colour of eyes: Blue

Marks or special features: Large scar back of head. Scar left kneecap 3 vaccine marks top left arm scar on (?) forearm Scar side left ring finger, mark in arm (?) (?) Scar top joint little finger right hand, Scar inside middle finger right hand Large scar side of right hand. Scar bridge of nose. Scar under right eye under left side.

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

Narrandera PC 

Wagga PC

Cootamundra Q.S

10

  2

19

1

6

3

1906

1906

1907

Indecent behaviour

Medical observation

Indecent exposure

20/- or 14 days HL

Remanded for 8 days + discharged

9 months HL

 

1     The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural & Mining Advocate, (NSW), Sat 16 Mar 1907, p. 2. Emphasis added.

2     The Cootamundra Herald, Wed 20 Mar 1907, p. 2.

3     The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 20 Mar 1907, p. 10.

4     SRNSW: NRS2397, [3/6011], Parramatta gaol photographic description book, 29 Aug 1905-11 Nov 1909, No. 897, p. 58, R5137.

 

 

Indecent Assault