Police Court, Wingham. Tuesday, October 2nd, 1866
BEFORE Messrs. FLETT, LYON, JOHNSTON, and CAFFREY, Justices. KING V. WATTS. For store goods sold, £3 3s 6d…
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Courts & crime, 1866
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Shocking Murder at Goonabarabran. (Abridged From the Mercury.)
THE particulars of the above murder, so far as they have reached us, are as follows :— It appears that MR. Orr had some four or five men employed at the out station of…
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ON Friday, Dr. Lankester resumed the inquiry relative to the deaths of Emma and Agnes Butcher, the children murdered by their mother in Somers-town…
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AT the Leeds Assizes, on Thursday, William John Turner, aged 28, busk-manufacturer, was charged with having murdered Maria Jane Turner, at Sheffield, on the 14th of…
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THE man Scott, who is suspected to be the murderer of the woman whose remains were found in Sussex-street, a few weeks ago, was again brought up at the Central Police…
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ON Monday morning great excitement was experienced in the neighborhood of the Seven Dials, owing to the discovery of a boy apparently about six years of age, who was found,…
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GEORGE ROSE, a well-dressed man who was described as a cabman, residing at Sydney-street, Clarendon-square, was summoned to answer the complaint of Mrs. Edith…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Committal of Burke, the Bushbanger, for Wilful Murder. (Abridged from the Melbourne Herald.)
THE coroner’s enquiry into the circumstances of the tragedy enacted at the Diamond Creek station on the 4th .instant, was brought to a close yesterday evening. To meet the convenience of the jury…
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ONE of the most extraordinary instances of the discovery of crime, under circumstances which at first seemed to preclude all possibility of detection and punishment, is presented in the case of SCOTT,…
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A MAN named Wellington has been living at Muckleford for some considerable time. He was a shoemaker by trade, and carried on his business at a small hut distant about 500 or…
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HAD Mr. Buckle been still living his fertile and ingenious mind would probably have given to the world some thoughtful speculations on the occurrence of a series of brutal…
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ON Wednesday, James Fletcher, the convict who stands charged with the wilful murder of James Boyle, an assistant warder at the Chatham Convict Prison, by brutally…
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JOHN RICHARD JEFFERY, 31, tailor, was indicted for the wilful murder of his son, Richard Arthur Jeffery, on the 30th July, in the parish of St. Giles’s-in-the-FieIds. Mr…
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AT the Clerkenwell Police Court, on Tuesday, Mary Butcher, aged 49, was charged with causing the death of her two children, Emma Butcher aged three years, and Agnes Butcher…
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On Friday se’nnight the Prince and Princess of Wales gave a ball at Abergeldie to the tenants and servants, which was honored by the presence of the Queen. The ball-room…
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ON Monday morning last, the extreme penalty of the law was carried into effect on the person of an aboriginal named Spider, who was convicted of rape at the last assizes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court. Wingham, Tuesday, December 4th 1866 Before His Honour Mr. District Judge Meymott. Solicitors in Attendance Messrs Thurlow and Ellis SWITZER V. BEARD
THE plaintiff sued for £13, which he claimed for work and labour-done upon the Government roads, the defendant being secretary for the trustees…
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WHAT appears to be a case of brutal murder has just been discovered by the police, the particulars of which we proceed to detail, so far as they are at present known. Near…
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