Evening News, Wed 13 Jul 1892 ¹

(Some of the following items appeared in our
later editions of yesterday.)

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YESTERDAY’S BREVITIES
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    Kempsey Quarter Sessions opened this morning before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. There were only two cases to be tried. A Vernon boy, [Corrie], working at Smithtown was sentenced to five months in Port Macquarie Gaol for attempted bestiality, and a prisoner for escaping from Trial Bay Prison was sentenced to six months in Goulburn Gaol. The case against a man named Cook for abduction did not come off, the parties having got married.

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The Macleay Argus, Wed 13 Jul 1892 ²

[KEMPSEY] QUARTER SESSIONS.
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Tuesday.—Before His Honor, Judge Fitzhardinge.
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BESTIALITY. 

    A[lexander] D[avid] Corrie was charged with bestiality. After hearing the evidence and the addresses which followed, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of attempt, with a recommendation to mercy on account of his youth. His late employer gave him a good character as a worker, as also did the lockup keeper. His Honor sentenced him to five months hard labor in Port Macquarie Gaol.

¹     Evening News, (Sydney, NSW), Wed 13 Jul 1892, p. 6. Emphasis added.

²     The Macleay Argus (Kempsey), Wed 13 Jul 1892, p. 4.