Supreme Court, Sydney. Monday, October 9.— Before the Full Court
Appeal in the case of John, Ross, found guilty of Murder, at the Central Criminal Court in August last. John Ross, the captain of the schooner Black…
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Courts & crime, 1854
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Police Reports. Tuesday, Oct. 31. Before the Police Magistrate
John Mullins, charged by the Chief Constable with the offence of discharging firearms in Auburn-street in the town of Goulburn, on the 30th of October, pleaded guilty, was fined 20s…
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RILEY C. MAIDENS.—This was a case of assault, to which the defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s. and costs, and directed to enter into his own recognizance to keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Reports. Saturday, November 4. Before the Police Magistrate
A man named Barrett, the hired servant of D. H. Thorn, Esq., was sentenced to 2 months in Goulburn Gaol, fur breach of the Master and Servants' Act…
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Terence O'Donnell was brought before the Bench charged with being drunk nod disorderly. The offence being proved the defendant was fined £1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Friday, November 10. Before the Police Magistrate
George Taylor and Charles Sherman, made their bows to his worship, and for the vice of drunkenness were severally fined £1, or 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Reports. Monday, November 13
Before W. H. HOVELL, Esq., J.P. William Smith was brought before the Bench charged with being drunk, and the case being fully proved, the defendant was fined 5s.; or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miscellaneous. Anecdote of the Russian Police
THE letters of all foreigners residing in Russian are invariably opened, examined, and read, both on being sent off and on being received, by the post office authorities. Any one who is…
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Before the POLICE MAGISTRATE and W. H. HOVELL, Esq., J.P. WHART v. BOLDWIN AND RYAN.—This case in which Whart, a Chinaman, in the employ of…
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HUGHRS v. RANKIN.—This was case of disputed ownership of a poley bullock. The complainant deposed to have driven the animal in a team from Sydney hither, and that it was…
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James Francis Bentley, (late landlord of the Eureka Hotel, destroyed by fire by the diggers), Catherine Bentley his wife, John Farrell, and Hervey Hanee, pleaded not guilty to an…
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THE usual sittings of this court was held on Monday last. There were only ten or a dozen cases, several of which had been settled out of court or were undefended, and few presented…
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Louis Cumavi was brought before the Bench, charged on information with having at Goulburn, in the colony of New South Wales, on the 6th day of December, 1851, sold a Watch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney and Colonial News. Attempted Murder, and Suicide of the Assassin
At an early hour on Wednesday morning, a man, named Cornelius Sargent, broke into a lodging house in Kent-street North, wherein his wife (who was separated from him) was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria News. Supreme Court, Melbourne. Trial of Lang and Drake
This was an information against the Prisoners, George Dunmore Lang and Frederick Lee Drake, charging them in the first count with larceny, and the second with embezzling…
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