Police Court. Tuesday, August S. [Before Messrs. E. C. Brecht and W. Clendinning, J's.P.]
ANTHONY HARRIGAN pleaded guilty to charges of being drunk any disorderly, and using indecent language, on July 30…
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Courts & crime, 1899
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The Dreyfus Case. Opening of the Court-martial. Captain Dreyfus Under Examination. He Fearlessly Asserts His Innocence. Authorship of the Bordereau London, Aug. 8
The Court-martial for the re-trial of Captain Dreyfus and opened at Rennes yesterday. The court was crowded with generals of the army, politicians, and other personages, amongst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queensland Police. Inquiry by the Commission. The Gatton Murder Mentioned
THE Queensland Police Commission commenced taking evidence on Monday. The first witnees was Inspector Uiquhart, who is in charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, August 8Th, 1899. (Before Mr G. F. Scott, P.m.) Another Fracas at Broke
Edwin Moroney was charged with unlawfully assanting Michael D. Lynch at Broke. He pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, August 10. (Before Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M. and H. Crothers, J.P.)
INDECENT LANGUAGE.—John Boyle, charged with using indecent indecent language at 12.5 this morning, within hearing of persons passing in High-street, pleaded guilty. Constable Kent gave evidence of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Myles Before the Court. Sydney, Thursday afternoon
Signalman Myles was brought before the police court to-day in connection with the recant Ashfield sensation. He was charged with unlawfully placing an obstruction on the railway, thereby causing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dreyfus Court-martial Opening of the Case. LONDON
INTELLIGENCE regarding tire re-trail by Court-martial of Captain Dreyfus, which took pace yesterday at Rennes states that the court crowded…
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It will be remembered that rentals assessed by the Local Land Board in connection with the Church and School Lands in the Gloncester and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dreyfus Court-marital
Ertrsordinary precautions are being taken to perfect Captain Dreylus while passing between the Prison Militsire, where he is confined at Rennes and the court-house in which the court-interval is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Saturday. 5Th August. 1899. [Before Mr. R. Simson. J.p]
Thomas Claude Mace was charged with stealing from the person of Miss Wiseman one first-class return railway ticket, of the value of £39s 4d whilst travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court
There was only one case set down for hearing at the local Small Debts Court on Wednesday last, viz., that of Robert Hall v. F. W. Probst, being a claim for £7 10s for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Northern Tragedy. Murder of a Chinaman
ON Thursday morning, at Fannie Bay Gaol, Port Darwin, the death sentence passed on Lem Kai and Chung Yeung, two Chinamen, for the murder of Chee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Thursday, August 10. (Before Messrs. J. W. Humphrics, and W. Clendinning, J.'s.P.)
FREDERICK HEWLETT, alias Frederick Hewlett Woodward, was charged on remand with obtaining the sum of 15s 6d by means of false pretences from…
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Maitre Demange, the barrister who defended Captain Dreyfus at the original Court-martial, and Maitre Labori, counsel for the prisoner, are jubilant at the small impression produced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, August 14. (Before Messrs. Q. F. Scott, P.M., H. Crothers, and M. Murray, Js.P.)
DRUNKENNESS.—One drunk pleaded guilty to taking too much, and was fined is, or till the rising of the court. VAGRANCY AND LANGUAGE.—Maurice Doherty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Lunatic Outwits the Police. A. Madman at Large. [Press Telegraph Association.] Sydney
The sensational tracking and subsequent bolting of a male lunatic who had escaped from Callan Park Hospital for the Insane occurred this morning at Randwick. It appears the patient is a German,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dreyfus Court-martial. General Mercier's Evidence Greatly Discredited. Letter of the Accused. Attempted Assassination of Dreyfu's Council. London, Aug. 14
In the course of his evidence at the Rennes court-martial on Saturday, General Mercier, who was Minister for War when Dreyfus was convicted in 1894, declared that General Jamont, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Theft of a Letter
Jacob Ripp, the young man who pleaded guilty at the Quarter Serious yesterday, to having stolen a certain letter sent by post, and sixty stamps, the property of the Postmaster-General, was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Debts Court. Tuesday, August 15Th 1899. (Before Mr G. F. Scott, P.m.) an Adjourned Case
A. C. Robinson v. Patrick Wheeler. Claim of £1 10s, goods sold. The case was postponed from a previous court in order to obtain the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Alleged Theft
The detectives effected an arrest in connection with an extensive robbery of tweed from the shop of Mr. S. Bowen, Regent-street, whilst some tweed said to be identical with that stolen, and which was…
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