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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1891

261 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 4 of 14

Kiama Police Court. Wednesday, March 25

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Benjamin Saunders was charged with indecent exposure and behaving in an indecent manner on the 24th instant in…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, 31St March

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. H. Council and M. N. Hindmarsh, Js.P. Henry Paterson was charged with assaulting Constable Balfour whilst in the…

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Terrible Murder Near Nyngan

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 3

On Tuesday afternoon last, whilst a boundary rider named M'Call, employed on the Moonagee Station, was going his rounds as usual, he came across a fire that was…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, April 2. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 2

Thomas Musgrave v. W. Savage, for £8 amount of rent due for house situated at Fairy Meadow. Mr. Muir for complainant…

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Court of Petty Sessions. Thursday, April 2. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 2

James M'Donald and George Davis, for being drunk and disorderly and using abscene language at the Mt. Keira Hotel on March 28th, were fined—M'Donald, 40s…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, April 7, 1891

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 4

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. M. N. Hinsdmarsh, T. Honey, C. W. Craig and H. F. Noble, J's. P. Charles Robinson was charged with being…

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Court of Bet Sessions. Monday, April 6. (Before tho Police Magistrate and Messrs. J. Richards and A. B. Chippendall, J's.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

Archibald M'Allistor, for being drunk and disorderly in Crown-street, was fined 5s or 24 hours…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, April 7

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. and Messrs. M. N. Hindmarsh, T. Honey, C. W. Craig, and H. F. Noble, Js P. Charles Robinson was charged with…

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A Tragic Story. the North London Murder—tracking the Culprit—a Race in Mid Ocean—the Murderer's Confession

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 8 April 1891 · page 4

ON Saturday, the 9th of July, 1864, two young clerks, employed by the banking house of Roberts, Curtis, and Co., Lombard-street, had been out…

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Court Op Petty Sessions. Thursday, April 9. (Before Messrs. A. A. Turner and G. Watt, J's.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 2

Richard Cromack, for making use of obscene language, was fined £1 with 4s 10d costs. BREACH OF THE COAL MINES REGULATION…

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Kiama Police Court. Friday, April 10, 1891

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. John Price was charged with having, on the 20th of March last, stolon from the dwelling house of Joseph Permentor, of…

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The Bank Frauds. Bradley and Druce Sentenced. Trial of Allingilam

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 4

AT the Central Criminal Court on Friday (before Mr. Justice Innes), John Morgan Druce, who on Monday pleaded guilty to a charge of having can bezzled about £5000,…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, April 13. (Before Messrs. A. A. Turner, T. Armstrong, A. Parsons, J. A. Beatson, and G. Watt, J's.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 2

Joseph Parkinson, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was fined 7s 6d. James Williams and Charles Higstrim, for similar offences, were each fined 5s…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, April 14

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 15 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. James Sweeney was charged with being drunk in Terralong street, and was fined 20s or 7 days in look-up…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, April 11, 1891

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. James Sweeney was charged with being drunk in Torralong-street on the 13th instant, and was fined £1 or 7 days in the…

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Kiama Police Court. Friday, April 17

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the P.M. Peter O'sen v. Edward Pritchard.—Wages, £3 9s. Mr. Charles Bull appeared for the…

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A Sydney Tragedy. Murder in Foveaux-street

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 3

A MURDER was committed on Tuesday afternoon in a house in Foveaux-street Surry Hills, one of the most thickly populated parts of the city, the victim…

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Court of Petty Sessions. Thursday. April 16. (Before Messrs. A. A. Turner and J. A. Bentson, J's.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 2

Charles Massey was charged by Herman Blackston with having, whon his estate was sequestrated under the Bankruptcy Act, concealed one gold albert chain, one…

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Kiama Police Court. Monday, April 17

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1891 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Peter Olsen v. Edward Pritchard.—This was It case in which the plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant the sum of…

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Court of Petty Sessions. Monday, April 20. (Before Messrs. A.A. Turner and G. Watt, J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1891 · page 2

William Wilson was charged with unlawfully detaining a horse, the property of William Collett and others. Mr. Muir for complainant, and Mr…

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