The Cronin Murder
Eleven jurors have been sworn in to try the men arraigned on a charge of murdering Dr Cronin at Chicago in May last…
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Courts & crime, 1889
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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, October 22 (Before Mr J. N. Brooke. P.M., and Mr W. Dudding, J.p.) Inerriates
THREE stalwart young men, strangers to the town, for being drunk the previous evening, were each fined 2s 6d or 24 hours…
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On Thursday last (says Monday's Melbourne Daily Telegraph) a groom named George Bengrave found in a waterhole at Balwyn the body of a man. The clothing of the deceased was searched, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault on a Chinaman. (Tuesday's Echo.)
At the Redfern Police Court to-day a respectablydressed young man named James Robert Martin, 23 years of age, a labourer, appeared in answer to a charge of inflicting grievous bodly harm upon one…
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John W. Laurie, who has been for several weeks wanted as the suspected murderer of Mr. Rose, a tourist, of Balham, who was found dead at Goat Fell, Arran, was captured on Tuesday afternoon,…
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THE Macleay Chronicle of Thursday publishes the following extraordinary statement: —"The refusal of the Kempsey Licencing Bench to grant a public house license at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →West Maitland Police Court. Wednesday, October 23. (Before Mr. A. S. Browne, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—Two inebriates were fined 5s, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment.[?] CHARGE OF STEALING A LETTER.—Emma Williams was charged with having stolen a letter,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Copeland. Police Office, October 18, 1889. (Before Mr. Angus Beaten, J.P.)
Nabob Khan (Indian), in custody, charged with assaulting Redman Pundit (Indian) and robbing him of £2.£Alf[?]d Stone, on oath, stated: I am a senior-constable of police, stationed at Copeland; on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, October 28, 1889
ALLEGED ASSAULT.—Ann Molloy, a somewhat eccentric lady, charged John Thomas Dee with having assaulted her at Rutherford on the 4th September last. Mr. Young represented the…
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THE [?] the prisoner arraigned for the murder of Cronin, of Chicago,was com[?] that city yesterday. In his opening speech the State Prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Monday, October 28Th, 1889. (Before Mr W. Dudding, J.p.,) Obscene Language
Harry Solomons was charged with making use of o[?]scene language in York-street on Sunday last, in front of the Salvation Army Barracks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court. Tuesday, October 29Th, (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.m.) Charles Humphries V. Daniel Morrison
Claim for £1 7s 6d, for attendance, etc., as veterinary surgeon. Mr Howe for complainant; Mr C. F. Solling for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault in Georg-street, Sydney
ON Wednesday night there was no exciting scene in George street, Sydney, the parties being a barrister and a lady. The lady was walking along the crowded street when the…
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A shocking and mysterious murder was discovered to have taken place at Bury on Sept. 26. The body of a man, named George Gordon, was discovered in a wardrobe in a furnishing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →East Maitland Police Court. Friday, November 1. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and J. Cunningham, J P.)
ASSAULT.—John Colline, a youth on remand, was charged with having assaulted Frederick Baker at Two-mile Creek, Bast Maitland, on the 30th instant. Complainant stated that he did not wish to press the charge, that he only wanted to get…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Murder of a Missionary the Report Discredited
THRUSDAY ISLAND Wednesday, Morning.- The police have received information that reports had reached Kewi that the Rev. W. Savage and the crew of the Mary, a London…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, October 31, 1889. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and A. S. Browne, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—An inebriate was fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours. PEOTECTION.—A middle-aged man, known by the name of " Bill," but whose surname could not be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Blood-Thirsty Criminal at Large. Murder of a Constable
THE Queensland Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Inspector Douglas, of Normaotou, stating that the notorious half-caste, Joe Flick, who escaped from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Case of Edmund Taylor. Charged with False Pretences (By Telegraph) Sydney
EDMUND H. TAYLOR, the well-known accountant, who was arrested at Colombo and brought back to Sydney, was before the police court to-day charged with obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cronin Murder. Le Caron Received 40;000 Dollars London
THE trial of the persons supposed to be implicated in the murder of Dr Cronin has commenced. Evidence was given to the effect that Major Le Caron one of the…
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