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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1881

205 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 11 of 11

Court of Petty Sessions. Thursday, December 22. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 December 1881 · page 2

John Wildman was charged with stealing one sheet, of the value of 6s., the property of John Weller. Constable Davis deposed that he, in company…

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Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, Dec. 23. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 27 December 1881 · page 2

Michael Vincent Burke, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was ordered to pay a fine of 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment. The same defendant, for making use of obscene…

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Broughton Creek. Court of Petty Sessions—23rd Dec

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 27 December 1881 · page 2

BEFORE their Worships Messrs. Stewart Boxsell, and M'Intyre. David Jones appeared on summons, charging him with making use of obscence…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, 27Th December 1881

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 30 December 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs, Connell and Conway John Sheehy was charged by the police with being drunk disorderly in Terra long street Defendant pleaded guilty and promised…

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Murder in Galway. Dublin, November 4, 1881

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 30 December 1881 · page 4

THE victim of the horrible agragrian outrage reported from Currigan. country Galway, was a respectable young man named Peter Doherty. It appears that about 10…

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Small Debts Court. Tuesday, 27Th December

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 30 December 1881 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. Council and Conway. S M Clintook v. Richard King. Goods sold £2 No appearance by defendant…

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