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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1865

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Local News. Court of Requests. Monday Jan. 2. (Before F. P. MeCabe, Esq., J.P.) Bealle v Moran

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 January 1865 · page 2

To recover £2 4s 10d. Judgment for £1 4s 4d. Beaumont v Loveday. To recover £3 6s 3d, for timber to be used in…

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Kiama Police Court. Thursday, Dec. 29

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1865 · page 2

(Before Messrs. Charles and Emery, J.Ps Peter and Johanna McGee were brought up charged with stealing from the premise of Mr. Edward Graham certain articles of…

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Court of Petty Session. Thursday, January 5. (Before C. T. Smith, Esq., J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 January 1865 · page 2

Messrs. Andrew Thompson, Charles Hoare, and Duncah Beatson. June, were severally fined five shillings and twopence costs for not having their names painted on their drays…

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SHOALHAVEN. Court of Petty Sessions.—Nowra. (Before Messrs. McKay, James Aldcorn, and Alfred Elyard, Esqr's., J.P's

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 January 1865 · page 2

James Fitzgerald, (Alias Yellow Tommy,) was charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding with intent to do grevious bodily harm to John Steddon. Pleaded not guilty…

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KIAMA. Police Court. Before Messrs King Emery, J P's.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 10 January 1865 · page 2

John Plumley was brought up by Senior-constable Goddard, on suspicion of having stolen a coat the property of Mr. George Woodm of Jamberoo. The coat was in the possession of Charles Graham, of the…

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Kiama Police Court. Thursday, Jan. 5

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1865 · page 2

(Before Messrs. Waugh, Marks, and Emery, Justices.) Catherine Bracken was brought before their Worships, charged with stealing…

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The Daylesford Murder. Inquest on the Body

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1865 · page 3

ON Friday, December 30th, the adjourned inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Graham, was resumed. His Worship the Mayor sat with Mr…

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Shoalhaven. Court of Petty Sessions—nowra. January 3

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1865 · page 2

(Before Messrs. Elyard, Aldcorn, and M'Kay, justices.) James Fitzgerals, alias Yellow Jemmy, was placed at the bar charged with…

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SHOALHAVEN. Court of Petty Sessions.—Nowra. January 10Th. 1865. (Before Mekay, Elyard, and J. Aldcorn, Esqs:, J.P.'s)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 January 1865 · page 2

Queen v. Fitzgerald, alias Yellow Jem (not Tommy. The first part of this case appeared in the Mercury of the 6th instant, when it was stated that the prisoner was charged with wounding with a spear the…

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New Magistrate

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1865 · page 2

Mr Robert Owen of Wollongong, has been gazetted a Magistrate of the Territory. Illawarra Gas Company. A meeting of the provisional committee of the above…

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The Murder of Mr. Whitfield

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1865 · page 2

Alluding to the commutation of the sentence of M'Glinn, the murderer of Mr Whitfield, the "Empire" says:— "The sentence of death passed on M'Glinn, for the…

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Local News. Court of Petty Sessions. MONDAY, jan. 16. (Before the Mayor and F. P. M'Cabe, Esq., J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1865 · page 2

Mrs. Charlesworth was charged by her husband with committing an assault. Edward Charlsworth, deposed: On Monday morning the defendant commenced breaking the crockery…

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Kiama Police Court. Thursday, Jan. 12

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1865 · page 2

After waiting four or five hours for a second magistrate, the only case on the list—Proprietors of Independent v. J. Smith —was postponed to this day by S. Charles,…

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The Late Murder at Daylesford

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1865 · page 4

THE investigation into the death of the ill-fated woman was resumed on Wednesday, before the coroner. Leuisa Golding, a child of ten or twelve,…

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Europea News. a Fearful Murder at Berlin

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 24 January 1865 · page 3

The following substance of a narrative of an extraordinary murder and trial which have created [?]sensation in Berlin:—On the 19th of April, was found in that part of the Spree which is…

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Local News. Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, Jan. 23. (Before the Mayor and C. Fairs, Esq. J.C.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 24 January 1865 · page 2

James Wallace was charged by Thomas Kelly with driving a quantity of swine from the land of latter, without his permission. The complainant deposed that on the 17th instant…

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Kiama Police Court. Thursday, Jan. 19

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1865 · page 2

(Before Messrs. Marks and Emery, J.P's.)THE only case for hearing having been twice remanded, and reported in our issues of the 12th and 19th instant, we give it in…

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A Fearful Murder at Berlin

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1865 · page 3

THE following is the substance of a narrative of an extraordinary murder and trial which have created great sensation in Berlin:—…

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Court of RequestS,—Nowra. January 21Th, 1865. (Before Mesers. Elyard, Aldcorn, and MacKay, Esq's. J.P.'s.)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 January 1865 · page 2

George Underwood Alley v. Thomas M. Street and Wife. Slander, £10. Case dismissed…

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District News. Shoalheaven. Court of Petty Sessions.—Nowra, January 24Th, 1865. (Before Messrs. Mackay and James Aldcorn, J.P.'s)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 January 1865 · page 2

John Geoghehan, alias Kerry Jack, was charged that he did on or about the seventeenth day of October, 1864, feloniously steal, take, and drive away, at Jervis' Bay, in the County of St Vincent, one dark…

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