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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1893

236 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 9 of 12

Small Debts Court. Thursday, August 17. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr, A. B. Chippind[?]ll, J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 4

W. J. Gunning v. Charles Melan, to re-cover £8 1s 7d, for goods sold. No appearance for defence. Verdict for amount claimed, with 5s 6d…

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Police Court. Monday, August 21. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. F. A. Thompson, J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1893 · page 2

August M'Lean pleaded guilty to drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The same defendant was also charged with Illegally using a horse, the property…

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Police

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1893 · page 2

At the Shellharbour Police Court on Friday, before C. L. C. Badham, Esq., P.M., Charles Laase was charged with making use of obscene language in…

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Police Court. Monday, August 28. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1893 · page 2

Russell Black, in custody, pleaded guilty to drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Crown-street on Saturday. Senior-serge[?]…

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Kiama Police Court. Monday, August 28

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1893 · page 2

Before Messrs. H. Connell, C. Cameron, T. Honey and W. Grey, Js.P. Charles Graham, Alfred Richards and Henry Bankin, were each charged with…

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A Local Assault Case

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1893 · page 2

A case of interest to the people of this district was decided in No. 3 Jury Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Foster and a jury of four, the facts of which…

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Small Debts Court. Tuesday, 29Th Instant

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1893 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate (Mr. Badham), and Mr. T. Love, J.P. Wood Bros. sued John Hanrahan for the recovery of £5 12s 3d, for goods sold and…

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[?] Court. Thursday, August 31. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 2

Maria Madden, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was fned 5s, or twenty-four hours in the cells. For obscene language she was fined 10s, or…

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The Miller's Point Assault. James Maguire Flogged

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 4

James Maguire, who was sentenced at the Water Police Court on Monday evening to receive twenty lashes on a charge of having wilfully thrown a stone…

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Police Court. Monday, September 4. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 3

Alexander Cook, a youth, was charged with having, on the 22nd July, maliciously broken a fence, the property of the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil…

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Small Debts Court

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 3

Alexander Osborne v. Cornelius Lees, to recover £5 5s, for three weeks' rent of premises in Crown-street. Mr. Lipscomb for plaintiff, and Mr…

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Bulli Police Court. Saturday, September 2. (Before Mosses. H. S. Fly and J. Wynn Js.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 2

Claude Grant, a minor from Helensburgh, was charged by James Matheson with stealing one clock and two tin dishes, value 10s…

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Kiama Police Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 2

Before the Acting P.M. (C. L. C. Badham. Esq.), Messrs. M. N. Hindmarsh and T. Honey, Js.P. Simon Lazarus summoned John Riley…

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Police Court. Thursday, September 7. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1893 · page 3

John Anderson, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was fined 2s 6d, or six hours in the cells. John Johnson, for a similar offence…

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Small Debts Court. Thursday, September 7. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1893 · page 2

James William Gorrell v. Patrick M'Kinnery, to recover £3, balance of price of a cow. No appearance for defence…

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New Police Magistrate

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1893 · page 3

By proclamation in the Government Gazette on Friday last, Mr. Charles Somerville Alexander, Police Magistrate of Goulburn, has been appointed…

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Police Court. Monday, September 11. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. T. Armstrong, J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1893 · page 3

John Ford appeared in custody, charged with having, on the 1st September, in the Mount Kembla Calliery, cruelly illtreated a horse by beating it…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, September 12

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 September 1893 · page 3

Before C. L. C. Badham, Esq, P.M., and T. Honey, Esq., J P. John Stanley was charged with having committed a breach of the Public…

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Small Debts Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 14 September 1893 · page 3

M'Carthy & Co., of Sydney, sued J. W. Francis, of Gerringong, for the sum of £16 14s, amount owing for goods sold and delivered. Defendant did not appear, and…

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Bulli Police Court. Thursday, Sept. 14. (Before Messrs. H. S. Fry and J. Wynn, Js.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1893 · page 2

H. G. Hobbs, chemist, was charged with being an habitual drunkard, and also with using insulting language to Mr. A. T. Woods on the public road at…

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