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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1876

192 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 10 of 10

District News. Shoalhaven. Court of Requests. Tuesday, Nov. 21

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 1 December 1876 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. John Glanville, Michael Hyam, H. G. Morton, and Bernard Brown, Justices. Thomas Grieve v. John Medlin, to…

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Kiama Police Court. Saturday, December 2

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1876 · page 2

H. CONNEL, Esq., P.M. and James Colley, Esq., J.P., on the bench, John Reed, summoned by constable Payne, appeared to answer the charge of…

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Local News. Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, December 4. (Before Messrs. Turner, Jenkins, and Lindsay, J.P.'s.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1876 · page 2

William Cooper, for being drunk at Bulli, was fined 2s. (Id., and for making usu of obscene language on two different occasions was fined 10s. in each instance…

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The Burglary in Oxford Street. (Tuesday's Herald)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1876 · page 2

IN yesterday's Herald a very brief account was given of a burglary attended with great violence, which took place shortly before 2 on Monday morning, at the Branch Post…

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The Burglary in Oxford-street

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1876 · page 2

A burglary attended with groat violence, took place shortly before 2 on Monday morning, at the Branch Post and Money Order Offices, in Oxford-street. It turns out to be a desperate affair,…

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Court or Petty Sessions. Monday December 4. (Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Jenkins and Lindsay, J.P.'s.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1876 · page 2

John Head pleaded not guilty to a charge of ill-treatment, preferred against him by William Troy, an orphan boy from Randwick Asylum. Complainant deposed that he was between 17…

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Monday, December 11. (Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. J. D. Osborne, Lindsay, and Jenkins, J.P.'s.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1876 · page 2

James Shannon was fined 2s. 6d or 24 hours in gaol for drunkenness. The case of Troy and Head, adjourned from the previous Monday, was proceeded with…

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District News. Broughton Creek. Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, Nov. 28

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1876 · page 2

BEFORE their Worships Messrs. W. Stewart and J. Wilson. Applications for district auctioneers licenses were made. by J. Stewart of…

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Kiama Police Court. Same Day

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 15 December 1876 · page 2

A FULL bench had been summoned, in accordance with law, for the purpose of passing the District Court jury list for the year 1877…

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Court of Requests. Tuesday, Dec. 12

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 15 December 1876 · page 2

THEIR Worships A. Osborne and W. Fryer on the bench. S. Vidler v. J. Somerville. This case had been postponed from the…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, Dec. 12

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1876 · page 2

JAMES COLLEY, Esq., J.P., on the Bench. James Bucket appeared on summons, to answer the charge of having committed a…

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Kiama Police Court. Wednesday, Dec. 27

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1876 · page 2

H. CONNELL, Esq, P.M on the bench. James King given in Custody by G. Adams, of the Steam Packet Hotel, on the charge of being drunk and disorderly on…

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Broughton Creek. Court of Petty Sessions. Monday December 11

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1876 · page 2

BEFORE W. Stewart Esq., J.P. Constable Board v William Shergold drunk on the public road at Broughten Creek, and arrested on Saturday, the [?]…

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