Wholesale Attempt at Murder and Suicide
THE magistrates at Tavistock were engaged on Monday in the investigation of one of the most determined attempts at the murder of a whole household that has ever been recorded…
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Courts & crime, 1866
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Wingham Court. Tuesday. February 6th, 1866. Before Messrs. Flett, Lyons, Hall, Johnson Caffrey, and Cornish, Justices. M’CABE V. BLAIR
A dispute, which, upon reflection, was withdrawn from the consideration of their worships, and settled out of court. HAMILTON v. M’CLYMONT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Petty Sessions. Cundletown, Tuesday, February 20th. Before Michael Caffrey and H. J. CORNISH, Esquires, Justices. Samuel Mills V. Almus Ale
An action upon a promissory note for £4 10s. The defendant wished to set off sundry articles sold to the son-in-law of the plaintiff, but their Worships demurred to this, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Murder at Rollands’ Plains
AN Inquest was held on the 6th of March. The Coroner was assisted by the usual jury of twelve. The following is the substance of the evidence…
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ON Tuesday a man was arrested at Wolverhampton, and afterwards brought up at Petty Sessions, charged with having perpetrated a foul murder in Shropshire. The…
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THE murder of a young woman, aged 21 years, under circumstances of great atrocity, has been committed near Lancaster. The unfortunate victim is Elizabeth Nelson, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Murder by Fenians in Dublin. (From the News of the World, Feb. 18)
ABOUT ten o’clock on Friday [?] a diabolical attempt was made on the life of Police-constable Curran, 79 D, who occupies a house, of which he is caretaker, on the south…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Horrible Murder. of a China- Man, and Arson
A correspondent states that at .daybreak on Saturday morning, the 2nd instant, the town of Sofala was thrown into .a state of extraordinary excitement by the report of a Chinaman…
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ON Wednesday evening a murder of a singular character took place in the City. For some years past Messrs, Bevington, leather manufactures, of Neckinger Mille,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Murder and Attempted Suicide in Southwark
ON Thursday, a murder was committed in Southwark, and the murderer afterwards attempted to kill himself. A policeman was on duty in Kent-Street, when his attention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Execution of Robert Coe at Swansea — for the Mountain Ash Murder
ON Thursday morning Robert Coe was hanged in front of Swansea Gaol, for the murder of Edward Davis, at Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, on the 2nd September last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Nobleman’s Son Charged with Theft
A young gentleman, aged 17, named Henry Ernest Newcomen King, the son of Viscount Lorton, was charged at Tadcaster with stealing eight gold seals, a gold watch, a gold locket,…
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ON Tuesday morning early, a bricklayer’s laborer named James Whitley, an Irishman, lodging in Feathers Court, Drury Lane, murdered his wife by cutting her throat with…
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ON Friday afternoon, shortly after six o’clock, it was discovered that a barbarous murder had been committed at a village called Coppenhall, in the parish of Penthridge, near Stafford,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bench of Magistrates. Police Court, Wingham Tuesday, August 7th, 1866 [Before Henry Flett, J.G. Lyon, and H.J. Cornish, Esquires, justices.]
For allowing an entire horse to stray. Neither party appeared and the case was struck out. NATURALIZATION…
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ON Sunday an altercation took place at Briggate, Leeds, when a man named Saville was felled to the ground by a turner named Smith. Smith next attempted to strike at a woman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder on Board a Ship
ON Saturday one of those cases for which Liverpool has of late become notorious, occurred on board the screw steamboat Royal Standard, lying in the river, outward hound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Murder, and Suicide of the Murderer
ON Thursday evening a shocking murder was committed at the Old Swan,. Liverpool, the victim being a woman named Anne Train, wife of a purser, and the murderer was her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Court Houses Foe Public Worship
WE are requested, to give publicity to the following letter from the Crown Law Offices. Crown Law Offices, Sydney, 1st August, 1866…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence [Port Macquarie Police Court, Monday, 10th September, 1866 [ Before C.A. [?] Esq., P.M.; W.H. FREEMAN, Esq, J.p; D, M’donald Esq, J.P.]
JAMES REILLEY, formerly a warder in H.M.’s Jail at Port Macquarie, appeared on a warrant to answer a change of stealing a £5 note Prisoner pleaded not guilty…
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