The Chinaman Murder Case. Another Arrest
THE Ah Gayong murder case is again before the public in Melbourne. Stephen Catler, it will be remembered, was charged with the crime and acquitted. Some time after the…
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Courts & crime, 1889
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Maitland Circuit Court
THE Maitland Circuit Court opened before the Chief Justice on Monday, and the criminal business was finished the same day. Mr Darley was clerk of arraigns; the-sheriff,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Negro Riot in America. Revenge for Murder. London
A SERIOUS uprising of negroes, resulting a riot, has taken place at the Pratt [?] situated near the town of Birmingham the United States of American…
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CASES of bushranging have occurred at Dubbo, Six men were stuck up, and the Sub-inspector of Police shot at. On Saturday evening there well-known residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, October 2. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Darley)
The Court re-opened at half-past 9 o'clock. BLACK AND ANOTHER V. THE COMMISSIONERS FOR RAILWAYS. This was an action brought by John Black and…
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S. S. Moore v. R. W. Thompson, goods sold and delivered, £3 13s 5d. Mr. Solling appeared for plaintiff. Mr. Thompson conducted his case in person. The evidence of plaintiff and his son was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Greta. Police Court. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Messrs. Osborne, Green, Walker, and Davies, Js.P.)
Thomas Williams, George Swinton, Robert Geddes, and George Smith were fined in small sums for neglecting to send their children to school for the proper period…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, October [?]. (Before Messrs. J. N. Brooks, P.M., J. J. Riley, and A. S. Browne, Js.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—An offender against sobriety, who had been in the cells since the previous day, was admonished and discharged. DRUNKENNESS, ASSAULT, &c.—James Stevenson…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tragedy in North Melbourne. Jealousy and Murder. a Vanman Stabbed to Death
MELBOURNE, Wednesday Night.—A tragedy was enacted at North Melbourne to-night, when John Wellsford, a middle aged man and a van proprietor, living at Fitzroy, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Friday, October 4. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Darley.) HILL V. O'CONNOR
This was an action of ejectment brought by Hill against Annie O'Connor, the plaintiff being the mortgagee of certain land to one O'Connor, deceased, the late husband of the defendant, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Monday, SEPTEMBER 30. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Darley.) Black and Another V. the Commissioners for Railways
This was an action brought by John Black and Daniel Quigley, as trustees under the marriage settlement of the late Mr. W. B. Quigley, against the Commissioners for Railways of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Shooting of a Police Officer at Dubbo. (S. M. Herald.) Dubbo
Alfred John Massart, the cabman who accidentally shot Sub-inspector Cameron last Saturday night, was arrested by Senior-sergeant M'Keague last night, and brought this morning before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Murder in Victoria
IN Melbourne on Friday a man giving the name of Edward Woolf, 50 years of age presented himself at the Resselstreet watchhouse, and made a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempted Murder at Carlton. (Melbourne Argus, Oct. 5.)
A deliberate attempt at murder was committed at Carlton yesterday, when a man named Thomas Collins cut his wife's throat with an ordinary table knife, inflicting a serious wound, and had it not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Confession of Murder. (Home News, Aug. 30.)
At Clerkenwell police court, on Saturday, Robert Purvis Stewart, who appeared in the uniform of a private of the Scots Guards, was placed in the dock charged on his own confession with the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court. (Herald.) Tuesday, October 8. IN EQUITY.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice Owen, the Chief Judge in Equity.) JENKINS V. BUSSELL
Mr. C. J. Manning and Mr. W. Edmunds, instructed by Mr. R. W. Thompson, appeared for the plaintiff, Elizabeth Jenkins; and Mr. Gregory Walker and Mr. Mann, iustructed by Mr. Norrie,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tamworth Circuit Court. Sentenced to Death. [By Telegraph] [From Our Correspondent.] Tamworth
THE Tamworth Circuit Court opened yesterday before his Honor Chief Justice Darley. An illuminated address was presented to his Honor on behalf of the Bench of Magistrates…
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AN Englishwoman, the wife of an Italian named Corrador, a clerk in the Colonial Insurance Office at Wellington (N.Z.), murdered her in fantgirl, four months old, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol-breaking at Geelong. (Herald's Telegram.) Melbourne
About midnight a warder named Cain commenced his watch at the Geelong gaol. At two minutes to 2 he heard a knocking, and found that it proceeded from the cell of a prisoner named…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Copeland. Police Court, Copeland, Tuesday, October 8Th. (Before A. T. Laurie and, A. Beaton, Esq., J's.P.)
Frederick Soars appeared on summons charged with being drunk and disorderly in the town of Gloucester, to which be pleaded guilty, fined 5s, and 5s 6d costs of court.—The same offender was…
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