A Diabolical Murder
INTELLIGENCE of what is said to be a diabolical murder at Pakenham, about thirtyfive miles from Melbourne, on the Gippsland line, was received in the city on Wednesday…
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Courts & crime, 1889
487 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 25
Another Whitechapel Murder
At about one o'clock on "Wednesday morning, July 17, Whitechapel was the scene of another dreadful murder, similar in some respects to those which have been peculiar to that neighbourhood…
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AN request was held at the South Sydney Morgue on Wednesday afternoon, touching the death of a new-born male infant, that was found in n sewer in Premier lane,…
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AT the Newcastle Police Court on Wednesday, two lads named William Ling and Dudley were fined £5 and costs for oyster stealing from a leased area at Fullerton Cove…
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SOME time on Tuesday night a shocking murder was committed near Pakenham. A man named M'Namara split open the head of a man who has not yet been identified…
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THE trial of the Manilla youth, [?]stelia, for the murder of Annie Thornton, at C[?]rton, was concluded at Melbourne on Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and…
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THE condemned man, Phillip Costello, who is under sentence of death for the murder of Annie Thornton at Carlton near Melbourne, remains stoical to a…
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A wOMEN named Mary Watt, 28 years old, was charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Monday morning with assaulting Thomas Osgood and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land Court Appeals. (By Telegraph.) SYDNEY
A LAND Appeal Court was held in Sydney yesterday when the following appeals from the Singleton district were decided :…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shearing Troubles. Blocking a Station. Guarded Day & Night by Police. Gunnedah
BURECRGATE station started shearing with non-union men on the 23rd instant. Although all approaches to the station are blocked by union camps, work is still…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged use of obscene Language Threats Uttered in Court. an Adjournment Granted
IN the police court yesterday the first stage was reached of a case which has excited a good deal comment in town, and promises, it report be true, to…
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The murder at Pakenham, proved to have been one of the most savage that has occurred for a long time past. A single blow of itself sufficient to have caused death, had been followed up by the most…
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This court was then opened, and the following cases were disposed of:- George Gardner v. Wm. Weekes; wages £8 17s. There was no defence and a verdict was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muswellbrook. Police Court, Aug. 27. (Before Messrs. W. Bowman and R. T. Keys, Js.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.— "Tommy" Henlin pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and was fined 10s, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment. For a second charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dock Labourers' Strike. Trade Paralyzed. the Movement Extending. Over 120,000 Men Affrcted. the Police and Militaby in Readiness. a Reported Inoendiary Plot. London
The strike is paralysing business. The public are contributing largely to the support of the strikers, bat the misery is becoming acute. Although the men on…
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Mr. Alfred Vindin, coroner, and a jury of twelve, composed as usual in such cases, equally of free men and prisoners, inquired into the circumstances attending the death of Robert Scott, who expired…
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S. S. Moore v. R. W. Thompson, goods sold and delivered, £3 13s 5d. Mr. young, for the defendant, stated that Mr. Thompson was necessarily absent in Newcastle, and applied for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]est Maitland Police Court. Monday, September 2, 1889. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. B. R. Robertson, John Pearse, W. S. Harrison, and John Rourke, J's.P.)
FURIOUS DRIVING.—Tory Osland was charged with having driven a horse attached to a vehicle so furiously in High-street that the safety of a person was actually endangered. Defendant, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sent to Gaol
Geo. Johnson, alias Scotty, alias Thompson,'recently discharged on the charge of shooting at Constable Siater, was sentenced to six months hard labor to-day for being a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pakenham Murder In Victoria
The inquiry into the circumstanees attending the recent murder of Robert Geeorge Fry, near Pakenham, was resumed at the New Pakenham Machantes' Institute on September 4 before Mr…
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