The Port Macquarie News, Sat 25 May 1901 1
[PORT MACQUARIE]
QUARTER SESSIONS.
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THIS court was opened on Thursday morning by His Honor Judge Heydon.
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There was a large bar present, consisting of Messrs RJ Browning, Crown Prosecutor, Acland and Cowan (barristers), and Messrs Martin and Cowan (Taree), Rudder (Kempsey), and Banks-Smith, Dunn, and Melville (solicitors), Port Macquarie.
Messrs James Butler, Deputy Sheriff, JY Butler, D Bain, and J Summerville, J’sP, were also on the Bench.
Friday, May 24.
An aboriginal [Malcolm Smith, 14] was charged with bestiality at Wauchope.
Mr RJ Browning prosecuted for the Crown, and Mr H Acland, instructed by Mr Banks-Smith, appeared for the defence.
Accused pleaded guilty to the attempt.
His Honor directed that the accused be sent to such reformatory school as may be directed by the Minister for a period of three years.
1 The Port Macquarie News, Sat 25 May 1901, p. 2.