Bourke. Police Court, Dec. 5. (Before Messrs. [?] Guinn[?] and [?] P.M.)
J[?] Cox v. B. [?] mail [?] This was [?] case of wages, the plaintiff [?]ming £5 for laber done as gr[?] in [?] [?] that he wished…
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Courts & crime, 1868
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Singleton. Police Court, Friday, 18Th Dec., 1868. (Before J. C. S. M'Douall, Esq., J.P.)
VAGRANCY.—Patrick M'Dermott, charged with vagrancy, was discharged on promising to leave the town. DRUNKENNESS.—Jimmy (an aboriginal) pleaded guilty to this charge, and was dischaged.—John Jackson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muscle Brook. Police Office. (Before E. White, F. W. Thrum. W. Bowman, and W. Pearse, Esqs, J.P.'s.)
Thomas Lenan appeared (in custody) to answer to the charge of stealing, at Muscle Brook, on the night of the 12th instant, a silver geneva watch, £4 sterling in £1 notes, 7s. 6d. in silver, also one [?]nife and gutta [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supreme Court.—friday. (From the S. M. Herald.) (Before their Honors Sir Alfred Stephen, C. J., Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr. Justice Cheeke.) Exparte Yeomans and Another
This was an application for a writ of prohibition under the District Courts Act. The applicants, Yeomans and another, were the trustees of the Hunter River Jockey Club, and the respondents, Thackeray and others, were executors of the will of…
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A dreadful murder has been committed as Horfield barracks, near Bristol. Between 8 and 9 o'olock on Thursday evening, April 30, the occupants of the barracks (the 2nd battalion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton. Police Court, Tuesday, 22Nd December, 1868. (Before J. C. S. M'Douall and J. E. Davys, Esqs.)
THREATENING LANGUAGE.—Jacob Ritter was charged with making use of threatening language to David Gurrie, who deposed:—I reside at Campbell's Creek, near Goorangoola; on the 12th of this month my wife called on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Muscle Brook. Police Office, Dec. 22Nd[?] 1868. (Before F. White, and F. W. Thrum, Esq[?]'s, J.P.)
Caroline Lincomb, in custody, charged with being drunk on the night of the 19th inst. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was fined in the sum of £1, in default seven days' imprisonment. Against the same prisoner there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton. Police Court, Tuesdaay, 29Th December, 186[?]. (Before J. Lethbridge and S. B. Dight, Esqs
VAGTANCY.â Michael Riley stood charged with being an idle and disorderly character, without any visible or lawful means of support. The police not pressing the charge, the prisoner was admonished and discharged upon…
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The following particulars we find in the San Francisco Chronicle of 22nd October:— A strange and terrible murder took place at 7 o'clock last evening, at the corner of Stockton and S[?]tter streets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUPREME COURT,—Monday. (From the S.M. Herald.) Before their Honors Sir Alired Stephen; C.J., Mr. Justice Cheeke, and Mr. Justice Faucett) T[?] Qu[?]n V. DICKSON
Mr Justice Fa[?]cett delivered the judgment of the Court in this case (for the Crown) as follows:— ATTORN[?]-GENERAL V. DICKSON, ADMINISTRATION OF DAVID DICKSON, DECEASED…
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