Police Court. Monday, 10Th a April. [Before Mr J. W. Fletcher, P.M.]
Frank Byrnes for drunkenness in Myers-street was fined 20s or seven days. James Watson and Daniel McDonald were each fined 5s or 24 hours for…
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Courts & crime, 1899
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Suicide in Gaol. [By Telegraph.] Melbourn, Friday Afternoon
Samuel Johnson, a convict serving two years for being unlawfully on premises, suicided in Pentridge Stockade to-day. He hung himself to a ventilator with a strip of…
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MR. MAKINSON, P.M., adjudicated this morning. Two flrst-offending drunks were fined 2s. 64 Samuel Stewart, for drunkenness, was fined 10s. or three days. William…
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MR MAKINSON, P.M., adjudicated in the Police Court today. Ten first-offending drunks were dealt with us usual. Henry Vleser, charged with drunkenness, was fined…
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J. W. SHEVILL, Frederick Joseph Ferguson, and Sydney Allan, sentenced at the last Circuit Court to terms of imprisonment in the Bathurst Gaol, and Miles Ryan, sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempted Wife Murder [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon
A man named John Benis visited his wife in Athlone Place, George street West, to-day and summarily presented a revolver at her. The cap missed fire. Benis then endeavored to fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Kiandra Murder. Ryan Sentenced to Death. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
At the Goulburn Circuit Court yesterday the prospector Ryan stood his trial for the murder of the other prospector Harrington near Kiandra. Ryan, in defence, made a…
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IN the Licensing Court to-day, before Messrs. Makinson, L.M., and Mills, J.P. renewals of hotel licenses were granted to Elizabeth A. Nielsen, Wetworth Hotel, and Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Systematic Murder. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Marie Theresa Thornton, a nurse, has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a little child, Catherine Kennedy, at Carlton. The evidence showed that the had adopted the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Charges Against E. L. C. WILSON. Prisoner Before the Circuit Court. Found Guilty of an Attempt. Seven Years' Penal Servitude. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
At the Ipswich Circut Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Chubb, E. L. C. Wilson was placed on his trial on a charge of committing a criminal offence on a boy…
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Is the Licensing Court to-day, before Messrs. Makinson, L.M., and Mills, J.P. renewals of hotel licenses were granted to Elizabeth A. Nielsen, Wentworth Hotel, and Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Ghastly Murder. an Old Man Killed. Then Partly Burned. Murderer Tries to Fire the House. Buries the Body in a Manure Heap. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
The discovery has been made of the murder of an old deaf man named David Butler, who resided alone in a three-roomed house in Ailsa-street, Mansfield. The discovery was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— Alleged Attempted Arson. The Case in the Police Court. Accused Discharged
THERESA LYNCH, on remand, appeared in the Police Court to-day, before Mr. Makinson, P.M., to answer a charge of maliciously attempting to set fire to the house of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Marsfield Murder. Early Solution of the Mystery Expected. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Practically there is nothing new in connection with the murder of the old man David Butler at Mansfield, It is not known yet whether death resulted from poisoning or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglary in Adelaide. The Robber's Opinion of the Police. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
A burglary was committed at Dowie's Boot Factory, Howden, this morning. About halfpast 7 o'clock a messenger discovered that the front door had been broken in, and further…
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THE MINER'S Melbourne correspondent reproted a few days ago Mr. Justice Hood's striking expression that a system of "organised and systematic murder" was in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Patalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed in Gaol. SYDNEY
Whilst some prisoners in Bathurst Gaol wero removing the timber supporting an arehway in course of construction yesterday, thc arch, consisting of a solid mass of…
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MR. MAKINSON, P.M, adjudicated in the Police Court this morning. Five, first-offending drunks were each fined the usual 2s. (6d. Of the other drunks, John Devereaux was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mansfield Murder. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Afternoon
The police expect to e[?]ear up the mysiery surrounding the murder of David Butler, a Mansfield, on Monday They expect, also, to the make an arrest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— a Legal Manager Sentenced. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Monday Afternoon
James Whyte, formenly legal manager of Landy's Dream mine, Gippsland, and other mines, was sentenced to-day to two years' gaol for forgeiy of scrip and larceny of…
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