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Blue Mountains · Courts & crime
40 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 2
George H. Morris formerly manager of the London Chartered Bank branch at Katoomba, was charged with having, at Katoomba on 5th March, 1888, fraudulently appropriated the sum of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Walter Charles McGuire, assistant in Orange Post Office, was committed to take his trial for stealing a letter containing money; a trap was laid for him by Detective Abbott…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Morgan was charged with indecently assaulting Elizabeth Dwyer on the night of 8th June. Elizabeth Dwyer depended that the defendant came to here place near the Pottery on the night in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE Mr. J. K. Cleeve, P. M. Andrew Wireman, charged with being drunk and raring obscene language, was fined 10s in each case in default 14 days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Ryce and James Powell were charged with stealing a watch and same money from a man named Samuel Murray in the yard of the Courthouse Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BEFORE Messrs J. K. Letbbridge, Bond, and Stephen, J's. P. An application made by Mr. Hill for the transfer of the license of the Orient Hotel, Emu Plains,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →David Wycliffe Craig (formerly of Craig Brothers, auctioneers) was charged with having received certain property knowing it to have been stolen. Senior-Constable Hayes, of Oberon, arrested the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Water police Court on 19th July, before Mr. B. Lee, D.S.M., George Dignam and George Johnson, alias Thompson, alias "Scotty," on remand, appeared in answer to a charge of being concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Morrison was placed on his trial charged with the murder of Police-constable David Sutherland on the 3rd June last. Considerable interest was evinced in the case by the public, the court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plaintiff was given a verdict for £10 for trespass, and £10 for detention of furniture; the furniture, valued at £30, is to be given up. Costs on the higher scale, with expenses for seven witnesses,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE MR. J. K. Lethbridge, Dr. Bond, and Mr. Stephen. LAWSON. Jose G. Hay applied to have his premises…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was held before the City Coroner, at the South Sydney Morgue, on Saturday morning upon the body of a woman named Maria [?], who was found drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE evidence in the case of Florence E. Maybrick, now on trial at Liverpool Assizes on a change of having murdered her husband, James Maybrick, a Liverpool broker, by poisoning him, concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE conditional purchases of Mr. Husband, in parish of Blackheath, and of Messrs. Box, White, and R. Escott, parish of [?] county of Cook, were confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for trespass, detention of property, and damages. Mr. Roberts appeared for plaintiff; Mr. King for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an appeal against a conviction. The prisoners, James Robinson and John Mudge, were tried before Judge [?] on June 10 last, at the Maitland Circuit Court, upon an indictment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alexander Morrison Fell, W. G. Fell, and A. M. Fell, jun., applied for a continuance of the injunction granted to the plaintiffs restraining the New South Wales Shale and Oil Company from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →David Hamilton v. Donald Nicholson.-- Claim, £2 1s. 10d. for fruit, vegetables, and corn supplied. Defendant did not appear. Plaintiff stated he had asked for the money, and defendant promised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEFORE Mr. N. Connolly, P. M. William Nixon, assistant postmaster, at Vittoria. was charge on the 31st July last that he did knowingly utter, put off, and use certain stamps from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ASTONISHING demonstrations have taken place at Chicago as an outcome of the murder of Dr. Cronin by a suction of the Clan- ha- Gael. The section of that society which opposed to the course pursued…
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