Robbery of Silks—burglary
Some time between Saturday evening and Monday a large quantity of silks and a variety of other valuable goods were stolen from the premises of Messrs. Chisholm and Co., of…
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Courts & crime, 1868
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District Court. Wingham, Wednesday. February 12Th, 1868. Before His Honor Judge M[?]ymott. Attorneys Present—messrs. Thurlow and Wallace. Barrister—mr. Ellis. H. J. Cornish V. T. Reynolds
Detention of property and promissory vote, £70. Plantifi swore to having paid certain sums of money for two working bullocks, a cow and calf, one plough and harrow, and a boatâthe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the English Mail, at Atadelaide. Fenian Outrages and Destruction of Lives. Clerkenwell Gaol. Worcester Town Hall, Queenstown Martello Tower. the Government Determined to Suppress Fenianism. Thirty Thousand Special Constables in London. Constables in London. Garibaldi Pardoned. English News to January 10TH.(From the Mercury’s Telegraphic Agents.) Sydney, Monday night, 9 17 p.m
THE Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at three o’clock this (Monday) moraine;. The Geelong arrived at King George’s Sound on the morning of the 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court, Wingham. Monday, 24Th February 1868. [Before Henry Flett and Jasper Creagh, ,Esqs. Justices.]
HENRY DUMAS, was charged under the 3rd section of the Vagrant Act, with collecting alms by falsely pretending that he was the captain of a vessel which had been lately wrecked near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Murder
SOME little surprise was occasioned- on Monday last, when it became known that, inconsequence of a quarrel between, two men at Somerton, about twenty-five miles, from Tamworth, one of…
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“It was a curious mob that crowded that mite of a Court. There were placid-faced debtors, with whom owing money was a natural weakness, and one they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Attempted Assassination of the Prince. O’farrell in Gaol
PARTIES who have held conversations with O’Farrell since his committal for trial, all agree in representing him as a person of great conversational powers, and as very…
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THE crime of O’Farrell in attempting to assassinate His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, threw the community into such a state of excitement that matters which at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vice-regal Visit to Berrima Gaol
DURING the sojourn of the Colonial Secretary of Queensland (Mr. A. H. Palmer) in this colony, his interest in penal establishments has led him to visit our chief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America. the Impeachment of the President .The Senate Organized Into a High Court of Impeachment.the President Summoned to Appear
WE give a full record of the daily proceedings of tho trial of President Johnson collated from the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fenlans in Ireland. Trial of Mackay for Murder
The Cork assizes opened on Monday. Judge O’Hegan, in addressing the grand jury, regretted the exceptional nature of the calendar as compared with the rest of Ireland. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Execution of Griffin for the . Clermont Murder
THE Clermont escort murder, which has been so long before the public, has culminated in the execution of Griffin, whose' position in •society as a Police Magistrate, independent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Supreme Court Exparte Warne
THIS was an application on rule nisi to set aside, by prohibition, a conviction of the applicant by magistrates at Kempsey. of a breach of the Slaughtering Act, 5 William IV., No. 1, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Murder Near, Sand Hurst. (From the Melbourne Argus June 11)
A FRIGHTFUL murder, committed at Bullock Creek near Sandhurst is chronicled in Wednesday night’s Bendigo Evening News : —” The victim, whose name is Rooney , has lately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suicide or Murder Near Tam- Worth. (From the Tamworth Examiner, June 13th.)
A shocking occurrence has taken place about two miles on the other side of the Peel River Companyâs Wallamore Cattle Station, and about seven from Tamworth. The facts, from what…
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ON Wednesday last a woman of the name of Annie Hunt, the wife of a man named Rich’d. Hunt, better known as Dick Hunt, a pugilist of local renown, was found lying dead in a [?]ut…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Sympathy with Australians. the Attempt to Murder the Prince
WE take the following from the London Dispatch, of the 24th of May :— Our countrymen at home will peruse with grateful interest the accounts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Taree Court. (To the Editor of the Manning River News.)
SIR,—In your issue of the 11th July, just brought under my notice I find the following:— FINLAY v. ABBOTT…
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WE have received the proceedings at too late an hour to print them in full this week. Summerville v. Smith was postponed. In Emerson v. Hemmingway the defendant was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bench of Magistrates. Taree, August 18th, 1868. [BEFORE Messrs. FLETT, and CORNISH, Justices. Capt. CREAGH also sat in some of the cases.] Police Cases
Jesse[?]Sham was brought up in custody charged with [?] drunk in Taree, on yesterday. Plea, guilty; fine 5s. George Thompson was charged with being drunk…
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