Murder and Suicide. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. BRISBANE
A few days ago a kanaka committed suicide at Havanna by hanging himself in the scrub. The police have now discovered near by the…
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Courts & crime, 1891
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Tragedy at Newcastle. Brutal Murder and Attempted Suicide. Efforts at Suicide Ineffectual. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. NEWCASTLE, Tuesday Afternoon
A thrilling tragedy was enacted here at about 12 o'clock this morning, which has produced all the more excitement because the parties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Gallows. Fatta Chand Executed. for the Healesville Murder. Attempt to Cheat the Hangman. and the Reason for It. "Tell Father I Died of Cholera." [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. MELBOURNE, Monday Afternoon
Fatta Chand was executed in Melbourne gaol this morning, making the fourth hanging in Victoria within a month. Very little sympathy was,…
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MESSRS. Badham, P.M., and G. A. Mills, J.P., sat as a Licensing Court yesterday afternoon. A transfer from J. Anderson to Agnes Gibson was applied for, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder and Suicide. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. BRISBANE
A few days ago a kanaka committed suicide at Havanna by hanging himself in the scrub. The police have now discovered near by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragedy at Newcastle. Brutal Murder and Attempted Suicide. Efforts at Suicide Ineffectual. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. NEWCASTLE, Tuesday Afternoon
A thrilling tragedy was enacted here at about 12 o'clock this morning, which has produced all the more excitement because the parties…
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THE usual number of Saturday night delinquents made their appearance before Mr. Badham this morning. Two drunkards were fined in small sums, and another had…
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JOHN HEARNE pleaded guilty before Mr. C. L. C. Badham this morning to a charge of damaging property to the value of 20s., and was fined 40s., with the same amount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Petty Offenders
At the Police Court this morning Dennis Trinidad, one of the makers of Barrier history, was accused of behaving in a riotous manner at Elliott's hotel, and…
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MR. BARNETT sat at the Warden's Court yesterday and adjudicated in the following cases:—Joseph Besta, an infant who was represented by Margaret…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Immoral Commoner Captain Verney, M.P., Sentenced. [By Cable.] London
Captain Verney, M.P. for Bucks, has been found guilty on the charge of grossly immoral practices and has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russo-jewish Rout. Police Guilty of Gross Cruelty. the Empire and the Rothschilds. [By Cable] London
Further reports show that in connection with the banishment of proscribed Jews from Russia the police are guilty of the grossest barbarity…
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AT the Police Court this morning, before Messrs. Badham, P.M., and G. A. Mills, J.P., Charles May appeared on remand to answer the charge of having attempted to…
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G. COOK pleaded guilty to drinking at the Centennial Hotel during illegal hours and was fined 10s. and 17s. 4d. costs. Mr. Hall pleaded guilty, on behalf of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. (Before Messrs. Badham, P.M., and W. G. Gibson, J P.) Minor Offences
The cold weather or the crusade against Sunday trading is evidently conducive to temperance. Only three drunks appeared this morning, and were mulcted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petty Debts Court
VERDICTS were given this morning in the following cases for the amounts stated:— H M. Jones v. Paul Daniell, £3 5s. Stephen R. Munn v. J. Smitheram,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. (Before Messrs. Badham, P.M., and Mills, J.p.) Minor Offences
Jacob Smith, for drunkenness, was fined 2s. 6d. or three hours; and John Williams, for obscene language, 5s. or six hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Stealing Calves
JAMES R. SMITH was charged before Mr. Badham, P.M., this afternoon with stealing two calves, the property of George Strachan, on May 6. Mr. Hall for accused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pigeon-Stealing Cases. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner
SIR.—In reference to the case of pigeon-stealing heard before Mr. Badham yesterday, from my evidence what appeared to be an attempt to frustrate…
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T. R. SMITH appeared on remand this morning at the Police Court to answer a charge of stealing two caires, the property of George Strachan, on May 6 last…
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