Cablegrams. (From the Sydney Papers.) Thursday, the Crown Murder
Great difficulty has been experienced in empanelling the jury to try the prisoners charged with the murder of Dr Cronin in Chicago…
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Courts & crime, 1889
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Singleton Police Court. Wednesday, October 9. (Before Messrs J. N. Brooke, P.M, and Mr G. Loder, J.p.) Discharged
John Henston was charged with larceny. Constable Brooks said an Assyrian woman complained of the boy stealing the brush and scent bottle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wast Maitland Police Court. Saturday, October 12. (Before Mr. A. Wilkinson, J.P.)
RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR.—John Sullivan was convicted of having behaved in a riotous manner in a public street, and was sentenced to be imprisoned for seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Escape from Gaol. (Melbourne Argus, Oct. 11.)
Encouraged no doubt by the succcess which attended Farrell and Clarke in their eseape from the Geelong Gaol, some prisoners in the Melbourne Gaol on Wednesday night made an attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Murder of a Mate. (Herald's Telegram.) Wilcannia
A remarkable case of attempted murder has been occupying the attention of the local bench for the past few days. Frederick Deves, an elderly man, was charged with attempting to murder his mate,…
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A REMARKABLE case of attempted murder has been occupying the attention of the Wilcannia bench for the past two days. Frederick Deves, an elderly man, was…
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Attempts have been made to bribe the jurors empanelled to try the prisoners with the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday October 15. (Before Mesere J. N. Brooke, P.M., J.C. S. M Douall, G.T. Loder, and St T. Loder, J's.P.) DRUNK
A "FIRST offender" was fined 2s 6d and 2s 6d costs for drunkenness. BREACH OF IMPOUNDING ACT. The case Adler against Erust, for a breach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court. Tuesday, October 15th. (Before Messrs J. N. Brooks, P.M., G. T. Loder, J. C. S. M Douall, and St. T. Loder, J's P.) Renewale
ROBERT EDWARD BURNS, of Sedgefield and James Benham of the Lord Raglan Hotel Singleton, were granted renewals of their publican's licenses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escape of Prisoners from Bathurst Gaol. (Bathurst Free Press, Oct. 12.)
On Thursday afternoon a report gained currency in town that two prisoners had escaped from the Bathurst Gaol, but the rumor was not credited at first on account of the known security of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, October 17. a Court of Criminal Appeal
CONSEQUENT upon the agitation wbicK followed the sentence of death upon Mrs. Maybrict, Lord Esher, Master of the Bolls in England, joins a number of other persons in…
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IT is reported that something like a mutiny has taken place at the St. Helena Penal Establishment near Brisbance. Little has transpired as to the facts; but it appears…
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CHRIS. FARRELL, the notorious, convict ,who escaped from Geelong Gaol was on Wednesday cantured near the Botanical Gardens, Lake Wendource, Ballarat, after a desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ringwood Murder. Execution of Landells
THE extreme penalty of the law was carried out at 10 o'clock in Melbourne Gaol on Wednesday, in the case of Robert Landells. found guilty of the murder of P. J. Sherlock,…
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AT the Narrabri courthouse on Tuesday last a magisterial inquiry was held touching the remains, which were proved beyond doubt to be human, found on the site of a but which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Waverley Baby Farm. Wilful Murder
THE first inquest in connection with the baby-farming affair at Woollahra has resulted in the woman Ellen Batts being committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wagga Murder. Riley to Be Hanged
AT a special meeting of the Executive Council held on Wednesday the case of the man Riley, who was recently sentenced to death by Judge Foster at Wagga for the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, October 17, 1889. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. J. Riley, and A. S. Browne, Js.P.)
FORGING AND UTTERING. — Leonard Shadley White, on remand, was charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £3, purporting to be drawn by Thomas Edmunds. Senior-constable Kennedy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. Wednesday, Oct. 16. (Herald). In Equity.—(Before his Honor Mr. Justice Owen, Chief Justice in Equity.) JENKINS V. BUSSELE
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, instructed by Mr. Norrie,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Police Magistrate and School Attendance Officer
At the Ballina police court, on Friday, the 4th instant, before Messrs. E. Jones, P.M., and W. Wigmo[?]e, J.P., the School Attendance Officer (according to the Ballina Pilot) had a case against…
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