District Court. Wingham, Monday, January [?] (Before A[?] District Court Judge) COCHRANE v. TISDELL
An account for store goods—[?]19s being claimed No defence Verdict for the amount claimed and costs. SAME V. WITCHARD…
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Courts & crime, 1871
23 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Atrocious Murder in Hokitika
As a [?] murder was committed in Hokitiks on Saturday, Jan. 7. The victim was a girl only eight years old, named Mary Jane Molaumby. The suspected murderer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bench of Magistrates. Cundletown, Tuesday, March 14.(Before Messrs. Richardson, Cochrane, and CORNISH, Justices.)But one case came before the Court, that of Mccabe .Flett
Which was for an assault and battery said to have been committed at Taree a fortnight ago. An objection was taken by Mr. Flett to Mr. Cochrane’s sitting in tho ease, but the objection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder and Mutilation of Mr, Underwood
By the arrival of the Traveller last night, from Kadavu, we received the sad intelligence of the murder of Mr. Underwood last Wednesday or Thursday. It appears that five of his Tanna…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late News From Fiji. Murder of a Melbourne Stock Broker .Suicide of the Murderer. Murder of Mr. Underwood. a Fearfully Destructive Hurricane
FROM Levuka we have files to the 1st of April. The Fiji Times of that date contains news of a very gloomy nature, being records of murders and wholesale destruction of plantations by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brutal Murder! the Mailman Shot Dead, Md the Mails Plundered..pursuit Mb Capture of the Murderer .Who Was Forthwith Tried-by-judge Lynch, Convicted and Executed
BY our own express messenger, who arrived at a quarter-past three this morning, we are informed that as the mailman was travelling over the lofty mountains which lie between Tinonee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault on Mr. D. Buchanan M.L.A.
SHORTLY before 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. David Buchanan, M.L.A., was suddenly and violently assaulted in King-street, between George and Pitt streets, while walking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The “Trial Scene” in the Colac Murder
AN extraordinary scene (says the Geelong Advertiser) occurred at the Colac Police Court on Wednesday, when Paddy Geary and his wife were charged with the murder of Thos…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This Court Marriage of the Princess Louise and the [?] of Lorne
HER Royal Highness the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of her Majesty Queen Victoria and his Royal highness the Prince consort, Duke of Saxony and prince of Saxony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Hall’s Creek Murder
IN the Singleton correspondence of the Maitland Mercury, it is stated that a man named Michael M’Mahon was arrested for the murder of a carrier named John Jones, by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder at Hartley in 1869
ON Thursday, the 5th June Michael Hartley, alias William Cox, was brought before the Bathurst bench, on remand, charged with the wilful murder of one Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bench of Magistrates. Wingham, Tuesday, July li, 1871.(BEFORE Messrs. Cornish, Richardson, Coch- Rane, and JOHNSTON, Justices.) POLICE v. BAB
For obscene language charged to have been used in the streets of Wingham on the 10th inst. The evidence of the apprehending constable was that the defendant was in a state of intoxication…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Reign of Terror. Scene of the Murder of Gens Lecomte and Clement Thomas
A WRITER in the Soir gives the following graphic account of visit to the garden [?] the Rue des Rosiers, which was the scene of the murder of Generals Lecomts and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Court. Wingliam, Monday, July 31, 1871.(Before Mr. District Judge Mcfablane.) Bates V. EVERINGHAM
An action upon a promissory note for £16 9 s 8 d. No appearance. Case struck out. DEAN V. BRISLANE. upon two promissory notes, and an account…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Visit of the Governor to Darling hurst Gaol
YESTERDAY, his Excellency the Governor, together with the Marquis of Normanby (the new Governor of Queensland), the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. J. Roberson, and [?] Beresford,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kempsey District Court
Most of the cases tried in the District Court were mere matters of debt involving no questions of general interest. Perhaps the most important case was that of Spencer v. Cochrane, for rent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murderous Assault in Parramatta Gaol
ON Thursday morning the startling news spread through Parramatta that a murderous assault had been made in the gaol upon the foreman of the stone-cutters, Mr. William McLaren, by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Parramatta Street Murder
THE following is the charge -of the Coroner to the jury, and embraces all the principal facts, connected with a case in which two men hare been committed to take their trial for murder :—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder of Bishop Patterson and Bev. Mr. Atkin and a Seaman. Another Sacrifice to the Polynesian System
FOR some years past, Bishop Patterson, in his schooner, the Southern Cross, has been visiting the various islands in the South Seas as head of the Melanesian Mission. The head quarters of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bench of Magistrates. Wingham, Tuesday, November 28. (BEFORE Messrs. Johnson, Cornish, Creagh, Richardson, Broad, and COCHRANE, Justices.) POLICE v. Ephraim Ro[?]son
There were two of these cases, but as nearly the whole of the evidence in each case was a verbatim repetition of that which was given in the other, it will be most convenient, and occupy…
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