Small Debts Court
Cohen and Co. v. J. Walsh.—Claim for £6 12s lOd for goods sold. Defendant did not appear. Claim proved, and verdict given for the amount, with costs. Mr. Fox for plaintiff…
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Courts & crime, 1889
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Police Protection Wanted. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—I think it is time that provision was made for more police protection at this place on pay nights and the night after, as the language made use of by some men is very bad for one to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 1, 1889. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., A. S. Browne, J. Gillies, J. W. Birkenhead, and J. Rourke, Js.P.)
Drunkenness.—Two offenders against sobriety, who had been out on bail, pleaded guilty to this offence. In the one case the defendant was fined 5s, with the alternative of spending 24 hours in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attempted Murder and Suicide at Rochester. MELBOURNE
Shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon, Dr O'Grandville Taafe was getting into [?] buggy from the Rochester Hotel, Moorestreet, Rochester, the report of a gun [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Tuesday, April 2. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer.)
The Court re-opened at half-past 9 o'clock. PARSONS V. STEWART. This was an action of ejectment brought by William James Parsons against Donald Stewart to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East Mait[?] Small Debts Court. T[?]y, April 2, 1889. (Be[?]r. F. S. Isaacs, J.P.)
John Holco[?] John Warby, jun., goods sold, £4 15s 10d. [?]t for plaintiff, with 8s costs. W. W. Stud[?] Hugh Kelly, goods sold, £2 5s 6d. Verdict f[?]ount claimed, with 5s costs of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stealing a Cheque
W. A. Benson, recently a clerk in the City Council, to-day pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a cheque belonging to the Council, and was remanded for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. [From Our Correspondents.] Greta. Police Court. (Before Mr.J.N. Brooks, P.M.)
David Swan, School Attendance Officer, prosecuted David Gillis for neglecting to send his children to school during the proper number of days in the half-year ending 31st December. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, April 4. (Befare Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. Gilles, and J. W. Birkenhead Js.P.)
SHOOTING WITH INTENT. — K[?]e Ipp, a Chinese, wa charged, on remand, with having on the 19th March, shot at John Grace with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Lindsay (for Mr. Thompson) appeared for the prosecution, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Maitland Police Court. Saturday, April 6, 1889. (Before Mr. John Rourke, J.P.,)
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—James Fitzsimmons and William Mack were each fined 5s, in default to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours for having been drunk and disorderly in High-street on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blackville. Police Court, Thursday, 4Th April. (Before F. W. Darly, and J. C. Campbell, J.P.)
Thomas Page and William Stockdale were charged with stealing, on the morning of the 14th of March last, 34 kangaroo skins, the property of Edward Radcliffe and William…
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A SITTING of the Licensing Court was held yesterday. Mr J. N. Brooks (Chairman) granted a transfer of the license of the Caledonia Hotel from John B. White way to Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scone Police Court. Monday, 8Th April, 1889. (Before Mr W. F. Parker, P.m.) Obscene Language
THOMAS BRENNAN, brought up in custody charged by Constable Butler with making use of obscene language in a public place at Scene, on 6th inst, to wit, in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 8, 1889. (Before Mr. Brooks, P.M.)
LARCENY.—Hannah Carter, Mirham Carter, and Martha Carter, three sisters, the youngest being 7 years of age, were charged with having stolen some jam and biscuits from Messrs. Thompson and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 15. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and A. S. Browne, J.P.)
ABOMINADLE CONDUCT.—George Woolgrove, aged 42 years, a stranger, was brought up on two charges of wilful indecent exposure—on the West Maitland public park and in Newcastle-street, East Maitland…
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A telegram in our last issue stated that two men, William Burkill and William Denton had been sentenced to twelve months' and six months' imprisonment respectively for contempt of court at…
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David Lawton, a collier, living at Denistor (N.Z.), in a fit of madness drove a pick into the skull of his sleeping wife on Sunday. The woman's recovery is regarded as hopless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boulanger Prosecution. Charged with Embezzlement. (By Cable.) London
GENERAL BOULANGER has been charged with seducing military officers from their allegiance and embeszling funds while Minister for War. He is also charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. [From Greville's Telegram Co.] London. Monday. Wholesale Murder
An Englishman, named King, and his wife and six children have been murdered under circumstances of great atrocity, at a place called Ist[?], in Texas, U.S. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder and Suicide. Shoots His Sweetheart. (By Cable.) London
A terrible tragedy is reported from the Midlands. A man, named Robert Ferror, who was travelling with his sweetheart, Cicely Bamford, an actress,…
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