The Tamworth Daily Observer, Wed 24 Mar 1915 1
GUNNEDAH QUARTER SESSIONS.
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Gunnedah, Tuesday.
Library collection. Reproduction: Peter de Waal
The Quarter Sessions opened yesterday morning before Judge Bevan. The legal profession were represented by Mr Coyle (Crown Prosecutor), Mr Parker, barrister, and Messrs Links, Rowling, Hickson, Wragge, and O’Halloran (solicitors.)
James A[loysius] Connery pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit an unnatural crime [bestiality] and was sentenced to 3 months from the present time. The Judge took into consideration the fact that he had been in gaol for three months, and his previous good character.
Wm Potter pleaded not guilty to a charge of breaking and entering at Boggabri. The jury convicted and he was sentenced to 18 months hard labor in Goulburn gaol.
The same accused pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a pair of shoes and was sentenced to six months hard labor in Goulburn Gaol, sentences to bo cumulative.
The accused had a number of convictions, Sergeant Strachan’s evidence showed that accused led a queer life, at times going into the mountains and living there, making periodical raids. On one occasion he left a message that he had committed suicide and the police had organised search parties amongst the mountains.
1 The Tamworth Daily Observer, (NSW), Wed 24 Mar 1915, p. 2. Emphasis added.