The Daily Telegraph, Tue 20 Jan 1914 1

QUARTER SESSIONS.
————
(Before Judge Docker and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.

PLEASE OF GUILTY.

    The following persons pleaded guilty, and were remanded for sentence:—
…
    George Thomas Doddringe Burn, indecent assault at Newtown.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 20 Jan 1914 2

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Docker and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris, Crown Prosecutor.
…

“RESULT OF FRACTURED SKULL.”

    On pleading guilty to a charge of having committed a serious offence, [indecently assaulting a male person], at Newtown, on December 9, George Thomas Doddringe Burn, an elderly man, said that he did not remember having committed the assault, as he was suffering from the effects of a fractured skull, and asked that he be medically examined. He was remanded for sentence.

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The Daily Telegraph, Sat 24 Jan 1914 3

QUARTER SESSIONS.
————
(Before Judge Docker and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.
…

SENTENCES.

…
    George Thomas Doddringe Burn, indecent assault, six months in Darlinghurst gaol.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 24 Jan 1914 4

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Docker and a jury.)

    Mr Herbert Harris, Crown Prosecutor.
…

OLD MAN SENTENCED.

    George Thomas Doddringe Burn, 70, was sentenced to three months’ hard labour in Darlinghurst Gaol, he having pleaded guilty to a charge of having committed a serious offence at Newtown on December 9.

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George Thomas Doddering Burn, Gaol photo sheet 5

SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6084], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1913-1914, No. 13416, p. 177, R5117.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 13416

Date when Portrait was taken: 19-1-1914

Name: George Thomas Doddringe Burn
(aka George Burns)

Native place: England

Year of birth: 3-1-1844

Arrived       Ship: Corunna
in Colony }   Year: 1901

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Domestic duties

Religion: C of E

Education, degree of: R and W

Height: 5' 3½"

Weight     On committal: 129
in lbs    } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Brown to grey

Colour of eyes: Grey

Marks or special features: Scars bend of left elbow and on left forearm, right shoulder has been broken scar right side of neck scars in centre of forehead over right eyebrow and on nose. Nose crocked indented scar on right side

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

CONVICTIONS

Where and When

Offence.

Sentence

Water PC

ditto 

Sydney Q.S

15

15

19

  7

12

  1

1903

1904

1914

Absent from vessel without leave

Aid and abet one to expose his person

Indecent assault on a male person

4 days HL

3 months HL

6 months HL

 

1     The Daily Telegraph, Tue 20 Jan 1914, p. 4.

2     The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 20 Jan 1914, p. 5.

3     The Daily Telegraph, Sat 24 Jan 1914, p. 10.

4     The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 24 Jan 1914, p. 4.

5     SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6084], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1913-1914, No. 13416, p. 177, R5117.

 

Indecent Assault